“I am what you might call a matchmaker,” Levy Izhak Rosenbaum told an undercover FBI informant in mid July, referring to his involvement in the first case of alleged criminal human organ trafficking in United States legal history.  Mr.  Rosenbaum’s dubious services were uncovered in tandem with a corruption investigation against several New Jersey mayors and Rabbis who currently stand accused of facilitating an international money laundering scheme.

Deadheads—as devout fans of the legendary American jam band The Grateful Dead are colloquially called—often find it difficult to describe their fascination with all things Jerry, Phil, Weir, and Hunter,

I have a problem with recent events involving an increase in North Korean political craziness. I can’t tell the real Kim Jong Il apart from the puppet fabricated to represent him in Team America: World Police. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go rent the film immediately.

By Mike Stuzynski and Alex Giannattasio
A couple weeks ago we ran an article about some of the less attractive activities women (girls) can engage in. We received a lot of feed back on that article, so you know we had to do the guys the same courtesy. Here’s some of our least appreciated caricatures and stereotypes that give men a bad name. Don’t let anyone tell you we’re not equal opportunity haters–this is America.

William Adair contends in “The Sun Also Rises: The Source of A Farewell to Arms,” that both of Hemingway’s great novel’s share a common thread in terms of their structure.  According to Adair

This article originally appeared in The Daily Targum last Friday.  It is reprinted here with minimal edits made by the author.
No Simple High Way

No Simple High Way 4/9/08

By Mike Stuzynski

The following is a verbatim transcription of a column submitted for publication in last Friday’s Daily Targum Opinions page.  Editor-in-Chief John S. Clyde refused to publish the piece, citing worries that the visceral depictions of suicide across cultures might lead some students to kill themselves, resulting in a lawsuit against the Daily Targum.  The column was written as a rebuttal to Josh Baker’s argument for stricter gun control laws two days earlier.  It is reproduced here, in its original unedited form, so that …

By Mike Stuzynski
Psychoactive, or “magic,” mushrooms are the most ubiquitous of the known entheogenic plant hallucinogens.  They can be found on six out of seven continents, and require no pieces of complicated paraphernalia or preparation to be ingested.  Building on these assumptions, the conventional wisdom of the psychedelic movement in the 1960’s held that ritualistic mushroom use must have been a common practice in the shamanic traditions of many, if not most, of the prehistoric and ancient cultures