NewsfeedComedy Central's Emmy award-winning program "The Daily Show" recently celebrated its tenth year on television providing satirical evening news to an ever-growing population of viewers. Originally intended to take on an almost pure comedic purpose, "The Daily Show" has broken through those limitations and transgressed into one of the sharpest political commentaries on television. »
The new campus fad appears to be a form of extreme exercise where joggers compete with automobiles in a dangerous game of cat and mouse to see who wins ultimate road supremacy. »
It becomes more and more difficult for me to walk somewhere without seeing the ubiquitous white strings that ultimately accompany an iPod. Latecomer as usual to cultural trends, it seems that I recently awoke to see everyone with speakers jammed in their ears. »
The Oct. 2 issue of the Vanguard published a letter by Aaron Brown and Steve Lewitzke titled "His House overstepped boundary at Variety Show." The writers were "shocked and caught off-guard" about two statements from the His House skit. First was that His House included our meeting info in the skit. We have an open membership where any student is welcome to join any time during the school year. We felt this was a creative way to invite people. We did not violate any of the Homecoming skit guidelines, and if a new guideline develops concerning this, we'd be happy to comply. »
Pope Benedict XVI did not "criticize Islam," but simply, as you said, quoted Emperor Manual II Paleologus in a speech (taken out of context) given at the University of Regensburg on Sept. 12. Ironically, the point of the address was to support a greater role for reason in discussion of religious faith. »
