For most college students, the phrase “money management” means buying just enough food for the week to stay alive and still have funds for beer. For Paul Medica III, money management means keeping a watchful eye on the investment portfolio he’s grown since eighth grade. And unlike the average University student, who jumps for joy [...]
A‘90s R&B slow jam fades into silence as Desiree Dallagiacomo approaches the microphone. She adjusts the contraption, simultaneously turning its knobs and lowering the extension to meet her face. She secures its gears before taking a step back. The small audience is fixed on Dallagiacomo, who stands still with her hands clasped and her head [...]
It’s not too late. Try these twenty-five things before you reach a quarter of a century.
Make Me Beautiful
These three words script the theme music for the Emmy-nominated series Nip/Tuck, and some might say they reflect the nature of today’s Hollywood-centric popular culture.
Sex. Everyone talks about it, but not everyone is doing it. Tales of post-bar sexcapades may seem commonplace on our campus, but some LSU students are eliminating the three-letter word from their physical vocabulary. Abstinent students aim to enhance trust, communication and even spirituality in their current relationships without doing “The Deed.” Abstinence is the [...]
Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman’s devotion, List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, 1847 “Would you like to dance?” [...]
Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers already has a Ricky. He has served drinks for several years. Ricky’s a big, Italian bouncer, a bartender loved by all. So, when a strange customer by the same name became a regular, the employees at the pizzeria nicknamed him “Crazy Ricky.” I guess the nickname makes sense: He only stays [...]
“Critical Mass is sexy!” Unexpected words coming from a lean, curly-haired man wearing a white, v-neck shirt with the words “Yeah Bike!” printed on the front. Yet there he is: Moshe Cohen, mathematics graduate student, enthusiastically shouting those words to bikers as they pass by. Look for him on the last Friday of every month [...]
