Reconsidering the Criminalization of Drugs
Though a few American states have been grappling with the issue of whether or not to legalize marijuana for recreational use, a more broad-based drug legalization initiative has emerged in South America. Many…
The End of Times (As We Know It)
The Times has decided to further refine its online subscription protocol: instead of twenty free articles per month, we (the internet-surfing, information-hording public) are now only entitled to ten. To this I say:…
The Boys are Back: Rugby gears up for another season
I started going to the Conn Men’s Club Rugby games last semester. Living in the Village, it was an easy walk to the field and a nice place to bask in the sun…
Editorial: February 20, 2012
On February 8th I saw the sun rise. It had been a long time since I had seen the psychedelic mixture of blue, orange and purple splattered on the sky. I woke like…
An Ode to Megaupload
Although the United States condemns the state-sponsored Internet censorship that runs rampant in countries such as China and Syria, we are slowly moving in that same direction. On January 20th, the Justice Department…
Whitewashing History
The celebrated graffiti KB-Larrabee tunnel is no more. While the tunnel itself still stands, the spirit that made it such a unique and cool place has been sucked out; it is a shell…
Indoctrination in Mubarak’s Egypt: A Children’s Story
As uprisings in the Middle East continue to rage on in countries like Yemen and Syria, the Arab world is still very much on the minds of the international community. In the last…
Republican Presidential Debates Are Must-See GOP TV
My new favorite television show: Republican National Debates. A few beers, a few friends and it’s a guaranteed laugh-party every single episode. October 18 was no exception. This show proved to me that…
Life in the Village: A Commentary on Conn’s Alternative Housing
Sometimes I feel like we live in the slums of Connecticut College. We “villagers”—residents of the Ridge, Abbey House and Winchester—are an isolated bunch, due mostly to our location across Route 32. Many…
Record Store Day a hit at the Telegraph
Started in 2007, Record Store Day was intended to celebrate the rich culture surrounding independent record stores across the country and to prompt people to go crate digging. Various artists, including Daft Punk,…
Shake the Founder’s Day
It was like they never left. Andrew Oedel ’10, Matthew Addison ’10, Max Currier ’10, and Jon Markson ’12 set up on stage just as they had dozens of times last year, with…
A Bug’s Life (in My Digestive Tract)
A group of about twenty people gathered in the Larrabee common room on March 30 to the smell of sweet brown rice cooking in a pot. A bespectacled, pepper-haired man sporting a fungi…
MOBROC: A Night To…
After Griffen Alexander finished his set about the constriction of major labels and Facebook and heart break and romance and every other theme spun by Jason Mraz and the Abercrombie model looking, acoustic…
The King of Limbs
After The King of Limbs was announced a week before its release, I was certain there would be some ridiculous purchasing/marketing gimmick employed to boost sales in some way. Hype is Radiohead’s best…
Elementary, My Dear Watson: IBM computer program trounces human all-stars on Jeopardy!
“I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords.” Are you serious, Ken Jennings? Final Jeopardy is no time for Simpsons quotes. Let’s make light of possibly the biggest development in the decline of…
