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Volume 26, Issue 6
The Worst One Yet
Well, it’s Tuesday night, and the Omen is still not done. Mark my words though, it will be out on time. It may or may not be the last issue. Some of our money this semester is going to reprint the New Orleans publication. Two hundred fifty of those were distributed on a Friday morning, and by the evening, they were basically gone. This is really awesome. I want to specially thank Molly for the amazing job she did on layout. Read more...
A Not So Common Ground
First, I want to thank Jacob Lefton, if not for his encouragement and insistence, this essay would never have been written. Going against dominant trend of thought is never an easy thing to do. Writing something that one knows will upset people makes the task all the more difficult. Nevertheless, having a slightly different perspective on the trip to New Orleans, I’ve been asked to write them down. I will not address the amount of devastation we encountered in our week in New Orleans because I think those issues have been well explained. Instead, I want to offer a different perspective on the group we worked with: Common Ground. I ask that the reader read with care before becoming outraged. New Orleans was and will always be a sensitive subject to anyone who went down. Read more...
An Open Letter to All Students Who Eat in the Cafeteria
Dear friends;
Thanks to the majority of you for not leaving your trays and things for me to pick up at the end of the day.
Privacy
Laws are brewing which threaten your privacy online. Last June, ZDNet reported on attempts by the US Department of Justice to lay the groundwork for an expansion to what data an ISP is legally required to retain [1]. At present, this is governed by the 1996 Electronic Communication Transactional Records Act, which requires ISPs to retain any record in their possession for 90 days upon request by a governmental agency. The Department of Justice was reported to be interested in a mandatory two month minimum retention of certain classes of data. Read more...
Bates' Wisdom
Contributors Note: I received these words of wisdom my first year at college. Ryan Bates (name changed) was a freshman I had taken under my wing as a senior in high school. He was a great guy – though a little pudgy, extremely goofy, a lover of the accordion, and a characteristically bad with women (which is not to say I’m much better). When pressed for advice, he gave me these words of wisdom to see me through my college years. Read more...
Drag Ball Not A Drag and Other News to Jacob Lefton
Quote from Rupaul to Mr. Lefton: “I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven-inch heels, four-foot wigs, and skintight dresses?”
In his article “Drag Ball Is Not Worth All the Fuss,” Jacob Lefton outlines his reasons for opposing Drag Ball. Some of his assumptions include: Read more...
Excerpts from the Div III Log of Christopher Unger
September 19, 1987
I got the committee I wanted finally! Greg agreed, and Marilyn as well, though she was a bit more hesitant. I had to lie somewhat to get her on board. She's got more of a clue about what I really am trying to accomplish here. While she's going to be more help in the end, I can't let her have control over anything – making Greg chair was, I think, the right move. Read more...
I Could Never Get The Hang of Thursdays
Another Thursday, another column. This is going to be the first of a two-part column, because I’m going to be attempting to create some end-of-the-year extravaganza which will most likely be rather lackluster and come off more as me rambling than anything substantial. I could, I suppose, not hand in a column this week and save them both for next week, in a condensed version, but that would mean I would have missed this weeks deadline, and I’ve been trying to avoid making the same mistakes in the après vie that I made in my former, actual life. Read more...
CORE Alcohol and Drug Report
In early April, the results of the CORE Alcohol and Drug survey that almost half the student body participated in became available. The results of this survey have, until now, not been released to students. There are a variety of reasons for this. Read more...
Download the entire CORE survey summary in Word Document format
