By: Christine Maersch

The basement of Chumley's bar looked a little different on Sunday, Feb. 21 around seven. Instead of the normal Sunday crowd, the chilly basement was full of women. Women of all shapes and sizes, styles, and ages (many with their accompanying guy-friends...

By: Garon Anders

Recently, I have written at length about 'malaise and rdquo; and being 'stuck in a rut. and rdquo; Last week, I promised things would change. After little more than a week's worth of effort, things are indeed looking up. I went to my partner and said, ...

By: Joel Leonard

Video games, like any other type of games, are really all about the competition. Competition against other players has become one of the biggest factors in a new game, with multiplayer modes and online capabilities becoming bigger and bigger factors in th...

By: Garon Anders

How much of your day is spent 'connected?' How long are you iChat, iGoogle, AIM, or Yahoo? How much time is spent on Facebook, Myspace, even Blackboard? Did you pause between visiting sites to order a textbook from Amazon.com. a pizza from PapaJohns.co...

By: Caitlin Dwelly

Have you ever found yourself trying to study for tomorrow's exam while also stressing over that paper you have yet to start, and every time you glance at the clock all you see is more reason to just doze off to sleep? First you should consider trying to f...

By: Kasey Van Nostrand

Spring Break is almost here, and not a minute too soon. While some students are planning fabulous trips to the beach or similar places where the winter coats can be left at home, others of you are just going home to visit family. For those who plan to sit...

By: Aaron Bunn

When people take the time to find out if a band is playing at a venue near them, pay the ticket price, including online fees, and then use precious gas to go watch said band perform live, they should expect that the venue accommodating them would be rathe...

By: Kasey Van Nostrand

Sneezing, also called 'Sternutation and rdquo; (which sounds much more pretentious), is connected to the autonomic nervous system, and occurs when the mucus membranes of a person's nose or throat are irritated by foreign substances. Common irritants are: ...

By: Garon Anders

In September of 2006, Sony revolutionized the way that we read books. The introduction of the Sony Reader made the purchase of e-books easy. The slim profile of the Reader was sleek and stylish. Sony's Reader was on display in stores like Best Buy and B...

By: Joel Leonard

Old video games are starting to become valuable again. As time goes on, with no new copies of older games being made, and games becoming increasingly rare, their collector's value is slowly climbing. Through the use of sites such as eBay, some older games...

By: Garon Anders

I have to be honest, I am stuck in a rut. Several things seem to be contributing to my overwhelming sense of malaise. For one, the weather has started to irritate me. I have never been one to complain about snow, ice, rain, or cold weather. In fact, '...

By: Jamie Dickens

What crop has ranked number in the healthiest food category? It hails from our very own backyard and it can be devoured whole to pureed, savory to sweet. You won't see it on the surface so you might have to dig and get a little dirty going after it. Be...

By: Garon Anders

Recently, we reported on Apple's unveiling of the iPad. The report concluded that the iPad is, at its core, an oversized iPhone that is incapable of making phone calls. This seems to be the general consensus amongst tech columnists. They are closely wa...

By: Jamie Dickens

Amid the festivities in the week prior to its beginning, the Vancouver Olympics suffered an emotional blow. Nodar Kumaritashvili, an athlete from the East European nation of Georgia, died as the result of an accident on the official luge track. The acci...

By: Garon Anders

Since I started writing this column last August, I have often talked of the 'work and rdquo; of losing weight. Whether it is jogging, keeping a food journal, or visiting the doctor, it seems that there is always something to do, something to think about,...

By: Zane Styron

Part 1 of 2 Brewing beer is a longstanding tradition which has persisted for thousands of years in one form or another. Some monks would brew beer in the lofts of barns near wheat fields and when the dust from the wheat field drafted in through the windo...

By: Christine Maersch

Thoughts of girls in tutus, tights, lace, and possible injury may cause flashbacks to your junior high production of The Nutcracker or Swan Lake, but for some it recalls something a little, well a lot different from a ballet. For many women throughout th...

By: Zane Styron

The mystery of the black hole has kept physicists working on theory and in observational astronomy for decades. Black holes are massive stars that are larger than our sun and that have exhausted their fuel sources from within. Once the lighter elemental g...

By: Garon Anders

Students have busy lives. Juggling classes, keeping up with social engagements, and allotting time for exercise and homework is a daunting task. How is a student to keep up with it all? One solution is to use Microsoft's Outlook. This very simple and ve...

By: Garon Anders

When a person is asked what comes to mind when the words 'diet and rdquo; and 'exercise and rdquo; are mentioned, the usual suspects are sweat, gym clothes, running, bar bells, and so on. Rarely do people think of sleep, chanting, yoga, reflexology, massa...