By Patrick Doyle Liberal Arts – English Major Poems about internet videos should exist more. ‘Fail videos’ are little bits of time captured that make us either go “eek!” “ahhh!!!” or “haha.” […]
Poetic License
Metal Up Yr Ass, Part 4: A 5-Part Review of Metallica’s ‘80s Albums
By Garrick Hoffman and Patrick Doyle Liberal Arts and Liberal Arts – English Majors Review of the Issue: …And Justice For All (1988) Garrick: My second-least-visited ‘Tallica album of their […]
Roman Senate vs. the U.S. Congress
By Ian Ziller Political Science Major When we think of democracy we often look back to the Romans, and by the same extension, we think of the Roman senate as being […]
Metal up your Ass, Part 3
A Five-Part Review of Metallica’s Earliest Albums By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major Master of Puppets If Ride the Lightning was an evolution of Kill Em All, Master of Puppets proved to be twice […]
Marin on Movies
Marin on Movies Liberal Studies/English Major “Gone Girl” (Give ‘er FOUR AND A HALF STARS) If Valentine’s Day had you feeling down in the dumps for being a lonely, unlovable S.O.B, I […]
Why we needed “Last week tonight”
By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major For decades, mainstream news media has continuously proven to be a red herring. Often a dubious, deceptive distraction, the news typically serves as more of fodder […]
Why 2014 Was The Year We Should Have Turned “LePage”
By Ashley Berry Governor Paul LePage has drafted a Tax Reform Plan that would eliminate revenue sharing for municipalities, increase sales tax, decrease income tax and cut corporate taxes. The elimination of […]
A Stand for Fast Food Farmers
By Ashley Berry On March 22nd, in St. Petersburg Florida, the Coalition for Immokalee Workers announced to the crowd at the Concert for Fair Food that the Coalition, alongside students from across […]
Colorless
By Dan-Herley Mathieu Let me reveal a secret that will change how we perceive the world forever and ever. It’s really hard not to be a writer when one is a thinker […]
Metal, Melody & Me
By Garrick Hoffman Liberal Arts Major Art is an inherently subjective form. What you hate, I may love. What I love, you may despise. I absolutely love metal music. With three brothers […]
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