Most college students exist off of couch change, selling loose cigarettes and begging their parents for money. It’s a tenuous arrangement, but it works out nicely.

The thing is, lots of people want your money—all of it.

If you were passing by the sidewalk in front of the Wabash Campus Building, 623 S. Wabash Ave., April 19, you probably noticed a coven of women dressed like hookers handing out free samples of “Axe Deodorant Body Spray.” You know, it’s the stuff that leaves you smelling like gas station soap.
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Editorial: MLB doesn’t need to turn tricks for money

Baseball’s been very, very good to us.

It’s given us Babe Ruth, Little League and the ever-popular ballpark hot dog.

But it hasn’t all been sweet American romanticism. Baseball has also given us corked bats, steroid scandals and the 1919 World Series fix.
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Blame game won’t buy peace of mind

“So,” my friend says as the drink careens down the slick bar toward me, “you know what tomorrow is, right?”

I blink as my synapses misfire. I really have to think about this. “Hitler’s birthday?” I ask. “No wait; it’s a national pot smokers holiday, right?” She scowls as she roughly towels the drops of moisture off of the wood. “No, dumb-ass. It’s the five-year anniversary of the Columbine shootings.”
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Google gets it wrong

(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON—The word “anti-Semitism” has been tossed around more frequently in the past few months—mainly because of the recent release of The Passion of the Christ. Rather than allow people who spout anti-Semitic rhetoric to go around unchecked, I decided that, as a Jew, I had a duty to be an opposing voice.
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