The Johnsonville Press Daily Edition
Today’s Submission by: Anthony Xerri
1. Recommendation of the Day- Meatloaf-Bat Out of Hell
This is one of my favorite albums of all time.  Written by the musical genius Jim Steinman (writer of “Total Eclipse of the Heart”), every track is a winner.  From the high energy, rock and roll opening track to the prog-ish love ballad at its close, this album is packed with emotion, tunes that you will feel.  A few of the songs can feel like your watching a musical, set in the fifties or …

As a humble employee of the College Avenue Dining Hall, I offer you the students, an article that I hope will give you a more intimate knowledge of and relationship with Brower Commons.  I will start by admitting that as a freshman, I too thought that Brower was quite inferior to the other Dining Halls on the New Brunswick/Piscataway campus.

In My Image
In Thursday’s Targum, Ysabel Gonzalez wrote an opinions article entitled Cracks in Another Red Tape System (found here). In this article Ms. Gonzalez points out the lack of personal attention given to students here at Rutgers, as well as in institutions for higher education in general. She claims that professors and the University at large are not interested in individual students and their needs, but rather in the statistics which represent them. She believes that professors need to take more of an initiative to connect with students …

In My Image
Last week Robert Tarantino wrote an article about the widespread conversion to digital music and the resultant poor sound quality. Reading his article, I was inspired to address some of the more cultural (and less technical) consequences of this popular technology. While I cannot deny the convenience of having every song you could ever want to listen to in the palm of your hand, I do feel that the current trend in music distribution takes away from the integrity of the medium, thereby encouraging the decreases in …

In My Image
West Virginia University 12/2/06: Mostly sober, red shirts discretely hidden under our hoodies, I felt this was the perfect disguise in the frigid night air; still we found ourselves surrounded by chants of “Fuck New Jersey!” Moments later, as we don our noble garbs in the befitting manner, these chants and profane remarks condemning the state of my birth and residency were aimed directly at us. What do these gas-pumping hicks know anyway? Tough loss that night, but if Townsend didn’t drop that pass in the Fourth, we …