As a vegetarian I am constantly on the lookout for protein. I’m like a wild lion on a chase for even the smallest of rats, except that I’m more like a Yukon gold looking for a sliver of tofu. While everyone around me snacks on oily potato chips or the newest healthier version of “baked” chips I sit here with a granola bar and a rumbling stomach. The prices alone of a granola bar or a single potato chip bag doesn’t seem worthwhile or sufficient for a hungry college student. Homemade trail mix is the healthier, easier, cheaper, and more satisfying option that all should consider, carnivores and vegetarians alike.

While most are dubious to mussels they are not as scary as they look; they are healthy, savory, tender, and sweet. These two succulent recipes are sure to satisfy mussel newbies and all-time lovers. Sayani’s recipes are easy to make and alter without sacrificing flavors. Mussels are sure to become your newest favorite dish.

Pagash is a secret. Google it and the results consist of an Urban Dictionary definition, some Jewish references, and less than a handful of not-too-trustworthy recipes. Not many people outside towns originally inhabited by Polish immigrants know about it. The American-Polish hybrid “pizza” can be found only in a small Pennsylvania town or two but hopefully it can cross a state border and bring its tasty self to New Jersey for all to devour.

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.”

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Poem by Michael Coughlin
Critique by Matia Guardabascio

“Silent Voices”

It was the coldest night in August. No not August,
but a much later time, oh wait, it was August.
I remember that night like I remember my road
back  home after a barrel.  No I think it was in August.
The wind chilled your bones to brittle lyrics, in an empty echo
verse.  So it was a cold night?  Yes the coldest night in August.
I remember, i felt so alone in a sweltering chill.  No sun
to warm the throat.  I felt my hand turn black. Frostbite in …

I look forward, a mirror obscures my view
I look forward, only to see behind
The halls of ivy are all I know
But the vines won’t take me where
I think I need to go
How shall I plan when circumstances are so constantly chaotic?
My thoughts are obsolete the very second
They occur
Soon cast out into a world that isn’t
What we thought we were entitled to
I didn’t make this fucking mess
But now I’m my own life’s janitor
With a shit-stuffed toilet to look forward to
Disillusioned and demotivated
At the same time feeling the tug
Of a thousand chains …

Rob Drucker is the kind of guy who would participate in the Great International Fall Album Listening Weekend, a weekend organized by fans of the prolific and seminal post-punk band The Fall during which one listens to all twenty-seven (!) of their albums. With a schedule of the events posted on his refrigerator, Drucker is ready to have a great weekend. Another thing to make that weekend great is the release of his band Silent Way’s first full length LP and accompanying CD-R.

While on a recent trip to Berlin, Germany, Ali Riaz took the time to catalog examples of the prolific graffiti and street art on display there. No photo’s have been doctored in any way. Enjoy.

RUSA, the Rutgers University Student Assembly, seems to hover around campus like a ghost. Who are they? What do they do? Every once in a while, they appear beforethe general public,when issues like the “Too Much Money Retreat” last fall garner widespread commentary. In talking to some of my friends, most are not even aware of RUSA’s existence. Of the ones who have heard of the group, the general consensus is that RUSA distributes money to different organizations. And that makes sense. Shiny cardstock, full color and beautiful quality fliers …

My journey into Korea started with an application to teach English in rural Korea under the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology. Unlike other programs that offer people the chance to teach English abroad, this program is unique in that it offers both long and short term contracts to its scholars, and as much as they want their applicants to be able to provide exposure to Korean students who often do not have such a chance to experience the English language, they also want to provide their scholars with the ability to learn and love the Korean culture through planned trips, excursions…