I know you're reading this and you can barely keep your eyes open. Bed, good. School, bad. I sympathize. But wake up! Keep pounding down that venti-sized Pike Place Roast and pinching your thighs through your pockets to keep from dozing off. Spring break is over.
We are beginning to see an end to a dual-party political system in our Undergraduate Student Government. USG is very rapidly moving away from the public system of debate, epitomized by our forefathers, and leaning heavily toward a very small collective of ideologies.
Ben Siegel, Vice President of The Hunter Women's Rights Coalition, is being unfairly targeted by a group of women who attended the HWRC's recent open microphone night. During the March event, a variety of groups and individuals stepped up to the mic to perform, or voice their opinions.
Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States to preach of faith, hope, human rights, but most importantly the value of unity, which he proved by being the first pontiff to visit a Synagogue. I personally found the idea of the Pope, the closest thing to Jesus Christ we Catholics have on earth, being welcomed into a Jewish Synagogue to be both interesting and very pleasing.
Recently, the Envoy ran two opinion articles rabidly criticizing Vogue magazine for running a picture (taken by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz) of supermodel Gisele Bundchen and basketball player LeBron James. Evidently, according to these commentators and a host of other overly sensitive, James resembles a savage King Kong and Gisele a captured Fay Wray in the photograph.
I have a really bad habit and I'm not exactly sure how I'm going to kick it. This habit has begun to gnaw at me since warm weather settled onto the city and the prospect of summer vacation began to dawn. The habit shames and embarrasses me, and I spend an inordinate amount of money on it.
In honor of Earth Day, April 22, The Envoy interviewed students and professors about environmental awareness. Here's what some of them had to say. How important is concern for the environment? Jenny Chuni, junior, Media Studies "Environmental concern is critical because of global warming.
We don't like to pat ourselves on the back very often here at The Envoy. It's just impractical-we spend too much of our time dealing with deadlines, layouts and correspondence with writers (along with our, what's that called? … Oh, schoolwork) to even have a second to do so.