How many times have you heard someone say, “I wish sports were a bigger deal at John Carroll?” For me, hearing this phrase is practically a daily occurrence.
Students are always saying that they wish the sporting events at John Carroll drew in as much of a fan base as they do at bigger schools.…
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So here we go again, another election with an open field of candidates. For one side, the choice is pretty clear, the Democrats will nominate President Barack Obama. Then there will be the Republicans, who are obviously the opposition party and must select a candidate to their liking. Once this process is complete, the Republican…
OurView: The power of goodbye
God has blessed me with a lot in my life, but one thing I haven’t received enough of is closure. I loathe abrupt changes with little to no explanation. So, for the times that I haven’t received closure from those in my life, I want to make sure that in my final semester, in my…
OurView: Come together, stop Sandler
I am, and always have been, very proud to be a John Carroll student. But last week, something happened that made me question that pride. While walking to class through the atrium, my eyes were drawn to the bulletin board. There, posted on the wall between a flu shot ad and a poster for a…
Columns: Time to cheat time
Time is a funny thing. I can never seem to get a handle on it. Looking at it from an objective standpoint there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day, seven days a week, and about 52 weeks in the year. Even though it seems so…
Columns: Occupy John Carrot
After six and a half semesters here, I’ve become fed up with an assortment of aggravating aspects of campus life.
For example; aren’t you sick of having to walk to class?
Shouldn’t administration provide shuttles for us during the winter months?
Tuition is the highest it’s ever been, and the students should come first if…
OurView: Let this college town flourish
Don’t worry. This isn’t just some unorganized complaint as I babble on and on about how the local cops “have no lives” and “are out to get people.” Regardless of whether those statements are accurate or not, the local cops aren’t the only ones whose attention I would like to get. That’s right, JCU resident…
OurView: The experience of a retreat
A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to attend Campus Ministry’s Guidance Retreat. You may be wondering, “What’s the Guidance Retreat?” When I sat down and opened up my email account to see the invitiation, I was asking myself the same thing.
The email was vague and even after reading it over a few…
Columns: Technological difficulties
I would be OK if texting was never invented. Same goes for Facebook. I believe those two advancements in technology, though not single-handedly, have furthered the destruction of our generation.
I don’t mean to sound like a grandma here, but the reality is they both suck. Granted, I do have a Facebook, and I text…
OurView: Grasping death: It ain’t easy
Death. It’s an unfortunate truth, but it’s something that happens to all of us and it’s something we all encounter in life. Often times, it’s a subject that not many people like to talk about, and for understandable reasons. Why am I writing about death now though?
You see, last Wednesday, I woke up at…
OurView: Just call me enemy
With the 24-hour news coverage of Sept. 11’s 10-year anniversary this past week, it can be difficult to see beyond the sadness and violence in the world. It seems there are always famines, political standoffs, wars, attacks and death. While these stories of tragedies almost always inevitably surface tales of heroism, kindness and the best…
OurView: Welcome to campus
Hello freshmen. Welcome back to the bottom of the heap – except not really, because this isn’t high school.
For most of you, this year will be your first time living away from home. Sure, you can still call your parents (and I highly suggest doing so because they probably want updates to their $40,000-plus…
OurView: Test this
During and for years after finals week, the evaluations of instructors are exposed to the world. I find it only fair that student evaluations of test be released to the JCU community once and for all.
We’ve all been there, 12 a.m. on the night before a test, fretting over how much there is to…
OurView: Greek Week bliss
I really enjoy the month of April because it brings a lot of excitement to campus. Last week, the humans battled the zombies around campus. By the end of the week, the sight of copious amounts of balled up socks on the quad and Nerf machine guns didn’t faze me. Next week is Easter Break…
OurView: The necessity of fallibility
Gen. George Patton, the famous World War II U.S. military general, was said to have offered words of wisdom to others in his well-known quote that asked, “If man does his best, what else is there?” Patton’s words are something I think about quite often before going in to take a grueling exam.
While it…
OurView: Carry on the memories
Grandparents are the best.
They are always around to offer wise advice. They make the best food. They offer comfort when you need it.
My grandfather loved to have the family over every Sunday evening for dinner at his house. We cousins would usually be playing board games or card games (recently the favorite has…
OurView: Be who you are
I have one last semester in college, where I’ll be spending my time enjoying four day weekends and three day weeks. Taking 21 credits this semester, I barely remember what it feels like to have time for myself. Between internships, interviews and an indescribably lousy ex-boyfriend, I’m ready to enjoy a new-found freedom.
People tell…
OurView: Lenten sacrifice doesn’t go my way
One of the songs Frank Sinatra is most remembered for singing is “My Way.” A reflective tune that recalls a man’s life, and through all the ups and downs he says, “I did it my way.” Apparently Frank had something wrong when it comes to choosing a Lenten sacrifice.
When I was home for spring…
OurView: Terry Pegula is Buffalo sports’ Barack Obama
Let’s play word association. Ready? Hope and Change. Let me guess, you thought of Barack Obama, that is, unless you are a Buffalo sports fan. A man by the name of Terry Pegula recently bought the Buffalo Sabres, and that’s whom you probably thought of if you are a Sabres die-hard, or if you are…
OurView: The curious case of Mischa Barton
Poor Mischa Barton. The fallen star of Fox’s epic failure “The O.C.” Known by Perez Hilton afficionado’s as “Mischa Farton,” the actress has taken, in recent years, what some may call a dramatic downward spiral. A spiral strikingly similar to the path the truck took down the side of a mountain in the season finale…
OurView: A Steelers fan in Cleveland
Sunday night was painful.
My heart began to sink when Green Bay was up 14-0 in the first quarter. I groaned when the TV commentators said the Packers had scored 21 points off of the three Pittsburgh turnovers. I put my head in my hands when Mike Wallace couldn’t quite reach the fourth down pass…
OurView: Cheers to Cleveland fans
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July 8, 2010. That’s when it all changed for Cleveland Cavaliers fans. LeBron James was gone forever, and the aftermath was not pretty.
Losing a player like LeBron hinders your franchise and makes it more difficult to do a lot of things – like win games.
Everyone knew that the 2010-11 Cleveland Cavaliers weren’t…
OurView: I’m offended that you won’t offend me!
Going about our daily business, we often find displeasure in the inconvenience that comes with sacrificing our time to fulfill an obligation. Normally, fear does not dissuade us from riding the flow of a schedule we devised for ourselves. But what if it did? The typically comfortable citizen of the world would cease to be…
OurView: Be the true love and give for twelve days
Of all the Christmas music that fills my ears during the holiday season, there is no song I loathe more than “The 12 days of Christmas.” It’s most likely the recounting and repetitiveness that gets to my patience, but all-in-all I take it to be a useless carol. The term “twelve days of Christmas” represents…
OurView: Gobble, gobble all the time
On Nov. 25 the nation will celebrate Thanksgiving. I am looking forward to this holiday for too many reasons. Not only do I desperately need a break from school work, I’m looking forward to reconnecting with family, old friends and truly taking in the holiday season.
However, these are just a few of the many…
