So Long, Mr. Biggio
By Ben Selznick | July 31, 2007Hardcore baseball fans, and especially the gentleman on campus who attractively sports the Astros warm-up jacket and cowboy hat, know well the name Craig Biggio.
Hardcore baseball fans, and especially the gentleman on campus who attractively sports the Astros warm-up jacket and cowboy hat, know well the name Craig Biggio.
Did you get wasted this weekend? Are you under the age of 21? Don't fret, my underage friends, you are not alone.
Remember the good old days of Napster? These were the days when a new technology called "file sharing" was being put to good use by people like you and me all around the country: downloading great music for free.
Many arguments can be made about the nature of the relationship between higher education and athletics.
When your fourth grade teacher passed back a test, you always wanted to know what your classmates got.
Imagine that it is early 2008 and the presidential primaries are in full swing. Iowa and New Hampshire are, however briefly, the centers of national media attention.
I am a senior and, as such, a marked man. From any dinner table I happen upon with the over-40 crowd to every conversation with family near and far, the moment I mention my senior status, I am immediately asked about my post-graduation plans.
A recent series of articles in The New York Times, entitled "In God's Name," examined the troubling relationship between religious institutions and the nations' local, state and federal governments.
When our country's fundamental laws were written based on the ideals of fairness and democracy, our founders could not have envisioned that there would one day be a president, the guarantor of these legal protections, who understood himself and his administration to be above and thus exempt from the very laws their elected and appointed positions require them to protect.
Yesterday, an individual proclaiming himself to be "proudly affiliated with The Review" employed a popular conservative argument tactic to garner legitimacy to his cause; he did not present a defense of why a banner, believed to be associated with The Dartmouth Review, said what it said, but rather defended the right to freedom of speech.