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Room Draw Brings Out Back-Stabbing
By Jacob Ganz
Opinions Associate

I don’t think people at this school lie quite enough. It’s certainly true that we’ve all pulled one over on our professors at some point or another with lines like, "My computer crashed," or, "I’ve been really sick lately," but there’s something to be said for truly bold-faced fallacies. Go to article

Media Mismanaged D.C. Protest Coverage
By Toby Gaster
Contributing Writer

The protesters moved me because they were tens of thousands of intelligent, articulate, artistic, creative, spiritual, and conscientious people coming together to let the "experts" who make the decisions in this world know that there are different ways of viewing life. Go to article

They’ll Be Gone For Good: Class of 2000 Will Be Sorely Missed
By W. Bruce Taylor
Contributing Writer

I have 9 seniors on the staff of SGM. There are two others who are graduating in December. This is not a very big sample, I admit. Nevertheless, based on my liking for these 11, I think I will be sadder than ever to see the class of 2000 depart. Go to article

Keeping It Real in Conceptual Ghetto
By Scott LaBoda
Opinions Associate

This past weekend I participated in a time-honored college tradition. I bought a fake ID. Being the perfectionist that I am, not just any old backroom, suburban mock-up would satisfy. I wanted the real thing and that meant, you guessed it, a trip to The Ghetto. Go to article

Being Oneself Ontologically Complicated
By Peter Cook
Opinions Editor

The other day I was mentally cataloguing all the people I know that annoy me, and I discovered a rather interesting fact. The thing they all held in common was that if pressed to identify the root of my dislike, I would have resorted to applying the moniker ‘fake’ to all of them. These people seemed to me to be very obviously doing and saying things that did not fit them. Go to article

Ridiculous Roommate Ratting Really Rubs My Rabbit Wrong
By Chris Bissell
Arts & Features Associate

Any encroachment by the government on general standards of individual liberty is the first little pebble which starts the great landslide into fascism. There are quite a few people on the Internet looking for that pebble, and many, apparently tens of thousands, believe they’ve found one worthy of illumination. Go to article




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