So sad to see you go, don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Columbia’s College Council is voting in June to decide whether or not to do away with Senior Seminar as a graduation requirement.

With any luck, there will be no more lectures on “life experience,” no sitting around in a windowless room and being asked to ponder your station in life.
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Editorial: Downtown casino a bad bet

Big money, big money. We have slots, blackjack, poker, roulette, fresh air pumped in hourly and the finest buffets this side of the Mississippi. If Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley gets his casino wish, this message could be plastered on billboards across the city, and a whole new realm of nightlife will grace this fine city.
But if a land-based casino does make its way into city limits, what effect will it have?
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Don’t forget to neuter your deadbeat dad

If there’s one thing I can’t abide, it’s people who won’t take responsibility for their actions, like the vipers who indiscriminately father children, hopping from woman to woman and leaving their children in the dead of night to tear about their world of crime like werewolves. And don’t give me that “oh, they’re just victims of their circumstances” routine.
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Clothes were invented for a reason

(U-WIRE) LONG BEACH, Calif.—On a campus where fashion is not just a statement and temperatures are hitting all-time highs, skin is definitely in.

If you think this sounds like another trite, clichéd complaint regarding women’s clothing at this school, you are not too far from the truth.
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