It’s my favorite time of the year: election season.
With Super Tuesday just behind us and the general election in the not-too-distant future, the election is in full swing. I love elections. They’re the fundamental way we, as citizens, can participate in our political system. Not all of us will make laws, lobby for causes,…
Op/Ed
Graciously Gaffney: Don’t put money where your mouth is
Letter to the Editor: Get the facts
In the article, Paul Lauritzen wants the “bishops to reduce the intensity of their rhetoric and …allow … insurance coverage of contraception,” because he believes that contraceptive use is “healthy for women and children.” (He just merely states this and doesn’t argue for it.)
However, he is clearly wrong in his views.
John Carroll University…
The Bayer Necessities: Women, Pt. 1
As John Carroll’s foremost self-proclaimed sociologist, I would like to take this opportunity to discuss a theme that affects our entire population: women.
This is a very broad issue (pun intended), but I am only trying to provide perspective as a 20-year-old male.
You see, to us men, women are a beautiful but perplexing part…
Career Corner: Tip of the week
“Always send a cover letter with your resume to every potential employer, even if the cover letter is not requested, it’s always preferred.”…
Nick's Knack: Destined to dwindle?
Late last May, I sat in a historic theater hosting the high school graduation of the class of 2011. The class president, who happened to be one of my closest friends a few years my junior, came up to speak and offered to his classmates a reflection on the typical topic of many graduation speeches:…
Letter to the Editor: Letter to the Rev. Robert Niehoff, S.J.
We, the faculty of John Carroll University named below, are committed to freedom of conscience and religious liberty. We believe that the American Catholic bishops have the right to proclaim Catholic teaching vigorously and loudly. However, we also believe that access to contraception is central to the health and well being of women and children.…
The Bayer Necessities: Conspiracy
Last week, The Washington Post announced that Indiana lawmaker Bob Morris believes the Girl Scouts of America promote homosexuality and abortion and act as a tactical wing of Planned Parenthood.
I should have known that these cookie-pedaling monsters were conspiring with Planned Parenthood when they released their newest cookie this year: Fudge End-it-nows.
I always…
Nick's Knack: Progressing backward
There is the constant impression that everything we do should be improved upon. In fact, progress seems to be an innate part of the human condition.
Day in and day out, we, as students, are generally working on improving our knowledge or abilities on a given subject. In turn, our grades will improve. That will…
Graciously Gaffney: Communicate your words
This week on “Meet the Press,” moderator David Gregory interviewed Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum. There are a lot of things on which I do not agree with Rick Santorum (like most of what he says). He talked about fellow Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, and the upcoming primaries. He also spent some time defending…
OurView: An awkward embrace
Everyone knows what it’s like to feel awkward. Let’s face it, most of us can’t go a day without having at least one awkward encounter. It happens to me all the time.
Often it’s just the usual. You wave at someone and then they don’t wave back so you just have to stand there grinning…
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…
Alumni Corner: Alumni Corner: Lex Tomaszewski ’01
Hey you. Glad you’re picking up the latest edition of The Carroll News with the intention of reading it cover-to-cover. Or stuff it in your backpack and pull it out later during classes like film & communication, sports journalism or campaign issues and images (all some of my favorites).
I did the same back in…
Graciously Gaffney: A blast from the past
History is a fascinating thing. It shapes who we are and how we live. It is not necessarily the textbook history that I have come to love, though, but the stories that together shape a history.
I remember when I first discovered this love. I was in fourth or fifth grade and was walking down…
Nick's Knack: Simplify me, Captain!
When the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was turned on in 1947, it was the first general purpose computer. It took up 1,800 square feet of space and was made of millions of parts. Indubitably, it was the most3 intensely complex machine to ever exist. Its purpose was to ease and simplify the solving of…
The Bayer Necessities: Looking down to look up
As I was sending out some emails recently, I noticed something that scared the bejesus out of me – almost all of the email addresses ended in ’14 or ’15. What was even scarier was that the email addresses with ’12 in them were graduating this year. When did I get so old?
I certainly…
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…
OurView: The interwebz: my best friend
Anyone who knows me knows I love the Internet.
YouTube is always there to make me laugh with some of its classic videos, videos like “Ultimate Dog Tease” and “Ken Lee” and of course, the countless laughing baby or puppy videos.
And when that is not enough, I check out funny new memes on imgur.com.…
Nick's Knack: Let’s win
It is the fifth week of the semester. The weather has been decent for this time of year, but it’s Cleveland and hasn’t remained pleasant for too long. The general conditions of the world right now aren’t the best and it’s difficult to find happiness or success everyday. Fear not, where there is a will…
The Bayer Necessities: If I die young
As I was listening to the radio the other day, I heard the song “If I Die Young” by The Band Perry. Throughout the song, Kimberly Perry makes a very keen observation – life is fragile. You really never know when it’s going to be your time to exit stage left.
Last week, I had…
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…
OurView: My life in lights
As a political science minor and with a love for broadcast journalism, I’ve come to know Washington, D.C. as a political junkie’s Hollywood. When I arrived in D.C. a month ago for my internship with C-SPAN, I knew spotting House Speaker John Boehner or Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in person would have been like…
Graciously Gaffney: Trial by error
Bad decisions. We all make them, and sometimes they’re unavoidable. Bad decisions are a fact of life, a part of the process of learning and growing up.
There are different types of bad decisions, too. Some are life-changing bad decisions, which substantially alter your life. Then there are the other bad decisions that make for…
The Bayer Necessities: It’s like S-O-L-O
Ah, love is in the air at Carroll. The shelves at CVS are stocked with red hearts, teddy bears and boxes of chocolates. And star-struck lovers from everywhere gaze passionately into each other’s eyes.
So this week I’d like to take this opportunity to toast the single people of the world. Just like Beyoncé, I…
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…
OurView: The good, the bad and the ugly
Right when you returned from the bathroom because you had to throw-up after watching the Madonna/LMFAO/Nicki Minaj/M.I.A Super Bowl halftime show, you may have seen Clint Eastwood’s appearance in a commercial for Chrysler.
You even may have been surprised that Eastwood would even show his face in the infamous annual corporate advertisement blitz, but what…
