• Metal Up Yr Ass, Part 4:  A 5-Part Review of Metallica’s ‘80s Albums

    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 first five (save for Kill Em All, which is my least favorite),…And Justice For All nonetheless boasts some killer songs (“One” and “Blackened” in… Read more

  • Poetic License

    Poetic License

    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.” There is something about them that gives me a great deal of joy. The ones of exceptional pain, not so much, but nonetheless… Read more

  • “Get Hard”: Ellsmere BBQ and Wood Grill

    By Nicholas James Miller If there’s one thing I’m certain I always will be, it is an extreme cheapskate. Now, I almost never am willing to pay the ten dollars required to see a new movie on opening night, but there are instances where I am so incredibly excited to see a new film that… Read more

  • Interview with Julia Howe

    By Nickolas Evan Acker I sat down a few weeks ago with the head coach of the Women’s Basketball Team Julia Howe. We discussed how the season went and how she feels going forward into next season.   So you guys went to Nationals this year, quite the accomplishment after such a long season. We… Read more

  • Phi Theta Kappa Regionals: Bringing Home the Gold

    By Erik Squire Education Major On the weekend of the 21st, the officer team of Alpha Chi Nu (ACN), SMCC’s chapter of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (PTK), set off for Asnuntuck Community College in Enfield Connecticut for their Regional Convention. It was quite the epic, full of campaigns, hypnotists, seminars, awards, and dancing. Upon… Read more