The Carroll News

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

You know what bothers me? The destruction of property. It upsets me when someone damages someone else’s belongings. 
I can’t grasp the concept of enjoying the act of destroying anything, let alone something that isn’t a part of my own possessions. I am making this argument because it seems that at John Carroll, some people…

This past Tuesday I voted in one of the most depressing elections of my life. Before me in the ballot box were two less than enthusiastic candidates for governor.
The Democrat, Ted Strickland, has presided over some of the most draconian death penalty procedures in U.S. history. Strickland has made Ohio one of the most…

This year I discovered that I have an addiction. 
It is nothing illegal, so don’t worry, Mom, but it is serious. My studies, friends and conscience have all been affected, but I can’t help the good feeling I get from clicking a few buttons on the computer. I am talking about eBay.
eBay was founded…

I know that Facebook is all the rage at this point, but I personally refuse to buy into it. I will admit it, I hate Facebook. It seems that all I ever hear about these days is tagging pictures, writing on walls, and playing (insert any of the number of) Facebook games.
I truly believe…

My older brother, the sibling who took all of the math and science genes, constantly badgers me with the notion that, as a communication major, I will grow up to be a destitute woman. One who will lead a less than satisfactory life because of an inability to sustain a six-figure income. He, on the…

It’s hard to remember the days before everyone became constantly “wired in.”
This mentality to always be “wired in” is not all bad. It is nice to be able to keep in touch with friends and family back home and much easier since now that there are more ways to be “wired in.”
However, these…

“Danny, you should probably start looking for a job.”
Gee, thanks Mom.
In the back of my mind all through Christmas break last year, I knew that I should probably start looking for some type of summer employment. After all, I was going to be broke by May because school tuition had dried up my…

Leave it up to Hollywood to promote a “positive” image, and E!News to lionize it with news coverage.
They wouldn’t exactly be deemed Hollywood’s leading ladies, but since Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Nicki “Snooki” Polizzi have recently been all over celebrity news coverage, they’re pretty high on Hollywood’s walk of “shame” scale. But even…

Before I became arts & life editor, I was the assistant editor to former arts & life editor Craig Willert. 
If anyone knows anything about being an assistant editor of a newspaper, they’d understand that being an assistant literally means being with the editor in the newsroom for excessive amounts of time. This is where…

Being a photographer for many different events, I am usually surrounded by little kids at one point or another during my photography jobs. I am always tempted to take photos of them, but I always feel like I am creeping on them, so I usually don’t.  
I have always been obsessed with little kids for…

This past week, John Carroll University students organized and participated in a Tea Party protest on campus. The protest was to voice the opinions of those who feel that the government spending is excessive and their expansion is an encroachment on their personal liberties.
While I do not necessarily agree with the Tea Party ideals,…

The pressure is on.
There are four weeks left in my college career and cramming everything in messes up my schedule every day. I can count on one hand how many Thursday nights are left or how many issues of The Carroll News I can be a part of. Any weekly event, really, is of…

I have a confession to make about my newest guilty pleasure:  Chatroulette.com. It seems as if Facebook has found some competition in being the newest way to procrastinate for a college student. 
Of course, something this enticing could only come from the Internet; but unlike Facebook, where there’s an extent to which you can look…

It used to look silly when I saw people walk out of a movie theater with these ridiculous looking cardboard glasses that boasted two different colored lenses. It was just awkward. 
Now, as I ask for extra butter on my popcorn (you know we all do it). I see people leaving the theater from the…

They say that patience is a virtue.  Amongst other important traits to grasp is monogamy, or at least the concept of being an honest person.
I’m going to start off by saying that I’m not targeting any one gender specifically—it’s understandable that players and liars come from both the male and female categories.
According to…