“Could You Enter Your Username and Password, Please?” Employers’ new trick with Facebook
Would you give out the keys to your house in order to get a job? Would you let someone go through boxes of personal belongings, mail and pictures? For most people, the answer…
Oh, the Linsanity!
Let’s be up front about something: I don’t really like basketball. While it’s always exciting to see clips of Lebron James or Blake Griffin throwing down on some poor, unsuspecting chump, I’ve never…
Coldplay-ed Out
While sitting in my room listening to the new Coldplay album, Mylo Xyloto, I was terrified that some mysterious music police would bust down my door at any moment and strip me of…
Our Love Affair with Wikipedia
“Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its twenty million articles (over 3.79 million in English) have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world….
Lessons from Libya: A Crash Course in Idealism
Great change is in the cards for Libya in the wake of the eight-month Libyan Civil War, which culminated in the death of Muammar al-Qaddafi and the end of his forty-plus-years dictatorial reign…
History’s Best Bro-down Comes to Conn
The political environment that exists today in the United States is dominated by professional politicians manufactured especially to be elected. Perfectly groomed hair, flag lapel pins and the perfect tie have all become…
Glory Days: Professors’ Pasts and their Relevance in the Present
Even at a school like Conn that has small classes and accessible faculty, it can be easy to forget that our professors are people, too. Among their pedagogical rants of wisdom and life-altering…
Number 37 and Proud of It
All is well at Connecticut College—the birds are chirping in the morning, the skunks are skittering about in the moonlight and the prospective students taking tours of campus are about to get a…
Fall Album Reviews: Era Extraña by Neon Indian
Chillwave or not, Alan Palomo and his brainchild Neon Indian have made quite the considerable ripple in the eyes of those transfixed on the strange world that Palomo and his friends occupy. This…
