Have you never played a first-person shooter on a console before?  Did you play Counter Strike instead of Halo?  Do you log onto Modern Warfare 2 only to want to scream and curse and break your TV in frustration?  Are you the one going 3-20 in Team Deathmatches, dragging your whole team down?  Until about a few weeks ago, this was an almost daily occurrence for me.
I first joined the Call of Duty online sensation late in the lifespan of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare at the nagging advice …

The Paseo del Prado led us to our first leg of the ‘Golden Triangle’ (only two of which we would end up visiting):  Museo Reina Sofia. It is a phenomenal collection of 20th Century art, the majority of which, we were unfortunately unable to see due to the space’s grandeur. Living next to New York City, we are spoiled to be so close to some of the best museums and galleries in the world. That being said, Madrid has museums that almost as good as those in NYC, if not …

Can an otherwise respectable student go Greek and maintain his respectability?

Hi there. My name is John. I like baseball, cheeseburgers, and going to the movies. I am a student at Rutgers University. I study political science. I am also in a fraternity. Won’t you be my friend?

It’s true. I did it. I took the plunge, and I don’t care who knows it. I went Greek, and am now a full-fledged brother in a full-fledged fraternity. No, this isn’t one of your mamby-pamby co-ed honors frats or pre-professional organizations. My fraternity comes complete with a rigorous pledging process, a big house with our letters on the front, and a reputation for throwing a wild party.

Scatter, Rain, Fascious, Butterfly, Waterfall, Ostensible, Fuck, Voluptuous, Friend, Perspective, Ergo, Perhaps, Periphery, contradiction, Hypocrisy, Gentle, Poet, Universe, Insidious, Intention, Deconstruction, Conspicuous, Imagination, Prudence, Persuasion, Bustle, Seduction, Observation, Ridicule, Collision…

December 2009 marked the end of another year and carried along with it the end of HIV/AIDS awareness month as well.  It has been 28 years since the virus was officially discovered and, while the ardent fervor of celebrity endorsement has slipped away, advancements still continue to be made even if they fail to garner the mass media response they used to. After combing science news sites and medical journals of the past, one particular advancement in treatment continues to present itself as the …

It has been over a month since President Obama’s widely anticipated Dec 2 speech at the West Point military academy which officially announced his plan to deploy additional troops to Afghanistan. Since then, media coverage has been somewhat derailed by such things as Tiger Woods’ sexual escapades and Gene Simmons’ anger issues. Despite these diversions, a great deal of criticism was still relayed to the American people from Republicans and Democrats alike- from the problems with financing the war to the issues of a timetable of withdrawal. Although many had …

When I received my absentee ballot to vote in the special election to replace the late great Ted Kennedy, I felt an immeasurable disappointment with the names I saw on it. The choices, as I saw them, were these: a giant douche, a cold-hearted woman, a babbling hypocrite and a space for me to waste my vote. To be honest, no candidate on the ballot seemed capable of filling the position. Over the course of several days I deliberated and resolved that I simply could not make a decision. And …