Presently, we are at a very tense juncture in time. The end of the scholastic year is here and the seniors, our friends, are graduating in just over two weeks. Without a doubt, they have learned a lot throughout their 21 years, however short of a period that seems to some.
The over-used advice about…
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Nick's Knack: Who, if not we?
Cooney Meets World: Embracing change
Wow, is it really the last day of classes already? It feels like just yesterday that my roommate and I were moving in, setting everything up in our dorm room and getting ready for another year here at JCU.
But as I sit here at my desk in the newsroom and type this column, that…
OurView: Law and order
Law and order: It has been one of the biggest components for every society.
It is designed to help maintain stability among the people. There are supposed to be no barriers according to the book. Everyone is eligible to be liable and no one, or case for that matter, can be overlooked. Of course, this…
Letter to the Editor: Open up
Thank you for the recent editorial supporting campus moves toward sustainabililty and encouraging further moves in this direction. One of the areas omitted from the current discussions has to do with campus access.
A few years ago, Sasaki Associates, Inc., the firm retained to do a space study on campus, recommended increased access to campus…
Off the Richter: Avada kedavra and the like
I’m a nerd.
That being said, let me launch into a great display of my self-proclaimed nerdiness.
Being a reader of many books, I have read about some of the most fantastic wizards of all time. The list boils down to a main six.
So, my big question is: Who would be the ultimate victor…
The Bayer Necessities: Onward, on, John Carroll
Ever since grade school, my district’s slogan was, “The best is yet to come.” During my time at North Allegheny, I loved this motto. I thought it was inspirational, a message that I could truly embrace – I could be the best that NA has to offer.
However, when I graduated and they did not…
Off the Richter: More than just birds and trees
Have you ever stood on top of a mountain and seen the whole range twisting out southward from underneath your feet, like the spine of some ancient creature emerging from the earth? It’s an absolutely awesome feeling.
Yes, you can look at paintings, and photographs and read all kinds of literature on the subject, but…
OurView: Spencito takes on the #ClevelandBrownsProblems
Today’s the day! The 2012 NFL draft is finally here, as the top college prospects from around the country walk across the stage at Radio City Music Hall to shake hands with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and join their first professional football team.
Every year, the draft is the first step to the long road…
Nick's Knack: Back to the start
Nearly every person I know loves Chipotle. Whether it’s the $1.80 guacamole, the allure of a baby-sized burrito or the feeling of immobility that comes after finishing one or two, the Mexican grill has become a regular spot for many college students when the dining hall just won’t do the trick. During the Super Bowl,…
The Bayer Necessities: Runner’s high
It’s 3:30 in the afternoon. You’re heading back to your room in Hamlin after a long day of classes when you encounter the most emaciated street gang known to University Heights – the Blue Streak cross country team. They travel in a pack, like a bunch of anorexic wolves, shirtless and obviously lacking any clear…
Cooney Meets World: Water polo weekend
Jumping in a freezing cold pool at 8:30 in the morning is not what a lot of college students would call the most ideal way to start a Sunday. Those of us at Cleveland State University’s pool probably would rather have been sleeping, but the prospect of playing some water polo helped us crawl from…
Off the Richter: Excuse my snarkasm
Ernest Hemingway once said, “There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” Well, that may have been Hemingway’s method, but it is not going to be mine. Quite frankly, it seems a little too messy. I do not think that my computer’s internal workings would benefit from being…
Nick's Knack: The pursuit of happiness
During my junior year of high school, a teacher of mine asked the class a common question, but of underestimated difficulty. “What is your goal in life? What will make your life successful?” Long answers could be given, with specific details and 10 year plans. Though I didn’t take a count, my guess is that…
Alumni Corner: Brighten up
Keeping your clothes on-trend can be a pricey and time-consuming endeavor. As a college student with stereotypically limited funds, I knew I could only make a handful of purchases each season. So each bangle had to count. Each top needed to have more than three wears in it.
Full disclosure I am still very much…
The Bayer Necessities: Not another Greek column…
It’s that time of year again at JCU – the week that everyone looks forward to with puppy dog-like enthusiasm and spends weeks preparing for. That’s right, I’m talking about National Osteopathic Medicine Week.
Of course, everyone on campus is very excited to recognize the 78,000 osteopathic physicians in the United States and celebrate an…
OurView: Road trip
On the last day of finals, May 11, I will be embarking on a journey that is known to be one of the greatest college traditions: taking a road trip.
I have been planning this voyage across this beautiful country of ours to Los Angeles for some time now, and in the process I have…
Cooney Meets World: Spreading Manresa love
I remember walking through the Atrium in the student center after 10 p.m. Mass one Sunday night a while back and seeing all these people in a circle with the same shirts on. A few of them were dancing around the inside of the circle, while everyone else was clapping and laughing. The sound of…
The Reiser's Edge: Your favorite newspaper
“What’s your favorite newspaper?” my Uncle Frank always asks his nieces and nephews. “The New York Times” and “The Wall Street Journal” are some of the more popular answers, but for him, there’s only one right response.
“The correct answer is: none of them,” he’ll tell the unsuspecting cousin of mine as he or she…
OurView: FYI: ‘The Hunger Games’ is not ‘Twilight’
Last Friday (March 23) at midnight, I had the pleasure of seeing the movie “The Hunger Games.” I was blown away by the filmmaker’s attention to detail, the cast selection, and more than anything the movie’s faithfulness to the book. The only part of the movie-going experience that I did not enjoy was as I…
The Bayer Necessities: #Sadtweet
Congratulations, Generation X – our social media savvy has successfully taken our verbal communication skills to the next level: we are able to express our complete thoughts and feelings in under 140 characters.
I believe this is a new low, even for our generation. And unfortunately, it would seem that Twitter has recently been taking…
Nick's Knack: What is and what is right
The general opinion about the world is that it is filled with corruption and misery. The noble intentions of “Kony 2012” were dimmed by the news that only 30 percent of the company’s income goes to the cause. A dark shadow was further cast over the cause when Jason Russell allegedly frolicked around in his…
Letter to the Editor: A humble rebuttal
After reading Brian Bayer’s “Women Pt. 1” in last week’s Carroll News, I have been waiting with bated breath for the exciting second installment, no doubt appearing concurrently to this letter. When I say “bated breath,” I mean it. I wonder how I’ve survived 22 years of estrogen-flooded existence without such an enlightening (and enlightened!)…
Alumni Corner: Greg Murphy
I remember it like it happened yesterday. Sometimes I still see the baseball flying deep into the night.
It was Oct. 5, 1997, and I was just over a month into my freshman year at John Carroll. The Cleveland Indians were hosting the Yankees in game four of the American League Championship Series. Trailing the…
Cooney Meets World: Please YOLO responsibly
During an important scene in the 1989 movie “Dead Poets Society,” English professor John Keating leads his students out of the classroom on the first day to a trophy room at the boarding school they attend. Keating instructs one of the students to turn to a poem in the textbook called “To the Virgins, to…
Letter to the Editor: Two-way street
I am very disturbed by the faculty and staff letter regarding the HHS contraceptive mandate. The opening line that they are concerned about religious liberty is disingenuous at best. They express concern that the bishops have chosen a path of continued confrontation. Is it wrong to stand by the constitutionally guaranteed right to religious freedom?…
