There is an epidemic sweeping across college campuses, and it's not the swine flu. Students have become increasingly apathetic about their educations. When did college stop being a place to broaden our horizons and expand our minds? Of course college is where we are supposed to prepare for adulthood, but that doesn't mean it has to be a mindless one-foot-in-front-of-the-other process to get that piece of paper and move onto a good job.
Mesa Community College has two campuses, their larger campus on Southern and Dobson, and the newer Red Mountain Campus. Most students attend class at the Southern and Dobson campus because they offer many more classes and availability, but the Red Mountain campus exists for those who may have to travel far to get to Southern and Dobson.
"You'll never get this, you'll never get this, you'll never get this," proclaimed the hysterical Sacha Baron Cohen in his comedy fling "Borat" in 2006. His over the top, flighty antics had audiences giggling so delightfully they may have needed to make a trip to the restroom, but what kind of comedy is "Borat" really? And where does this leave his new movie, "Bruno?" Comedy, as a genre, has progressed over centuries.
Oh yes, it's that time of the year again. You know, when the grasshoppers infest the parking lots as they fly violently into students' faces, when we all start cramming a semester worth of curriculum into a stuttering, 10 minute presentation, and when the line between studying for finals and studying hot bods out by the pool becomes dangerously thin.
Please take my opinions for what they are, my opinions. You can be angry with me, or happy with me, and if I upset you, that's an unfortunate situation but I'm already over it. Please, just don't throw a bible at me, I already know what it says. Word on the street is that the United States has a little problem with two people of the same sex rejoicing in the institution of holy matrimony.
"Big Brother is watching," says George Orwell's character Winston Smith, a civil servant in a totalitarian society in the novel "1984." The line is one of Orwell's most infamous; and it couldn't have held more true when Amazon unknowingly swiped "1984" and another of Orwell's famous novels, Animal Farm, from their Kindle electronic book collections overnight.
For the past 15 years, reality television has been growing in popularity among college students. It has been able to capture the good, the bad and the ugly moments from real-life people to A-list celebrities. From documenting the lives of seven strangers forced to live in a house to participating in gruesome challenges where slugs are the night's main course, reality TV has no limits.
Two-time best-selling author, U.S. Senator, and President of Harvard Law Review are just a few accomplishments of the first African-American President Barack Hussein Obama. The question is why these distinguished achievements are not enough to earn him an honorary degree from Arizona State University.