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…
Cooney Meets World
Cooney Meets World: Embracing change
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…
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…
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…
Cooney Meets World: Cooney’s take on Kony
One night over Spring Break, my Twitter feed started blowing up with something called #KONY2012. I was a little sleepy at the time, so I originally read the hashtag incorrectly.
“Wait, why do all these people want to stop me?” I asked myself. “What did I do to upset them all? I don’t even know…
Cooney Meets World: Remember Chardon
On Monday morning – just like any other morning – I sleepily shut off my alarm clock, climbed down from my bunk bed and grabbed a quick shower before the cleaning crew arrived to kick me out. I pulled on my clothes and opened my computer to scan the Web for the morning’s news.
When…
Cooney Meets World: Reversing ‘The decision’?
Do you remember where you were on the evening of July 8, 2010?
It was a Thursday night, and I was back home at my church helping prepare for the opening of our annual Greek festival the next day. One of my friends had walked in late, and I remember asking him something along the…
Cooney Meets World: Good McMorning
Are you lovin’ it?
If you aren’t, then you might want to.
Who doesn’t like “two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun” (in moderation, of course)?
If you haven’t driven down Warrensville Center Road in the last week and noticed the new McDonald’s restaurant, then I’d say you…
Cooney Meets World: Take initiative
Since last week’s issue of The Carroll News came out, I feel like I’ve had a revelation. Being that I’m going to be a senior before you know it, I believe it’s my duty to start passing along my knowledge to the rest of the John Carroll University community.
Last Thursday, I went to the…
Cooney Meets World: Shaved face thoughts
Last week, Brian Bayer, campus editor of The (award-winning) Carroll News, told you in “The Bayer Necessities” his thoughts on facial hair. If you’ve seen him walking around campus recently, though, you’ve noticed that the “squirrel” on his face has been shaved off.
Apparently, the beard wasn’t growing on him that much.
While I agree…
Cooney Meets World: The memory and lessons of JoePa
I am not a member of the Penn State family, but I grew up in Pennsylvania so I have some idea of what the school and its football team mean to people who live there. I’m also a Penn State fan, to some extent.
Joe Paterno was someone I admired because of his longevity at…
