I have been trying to get myself to Macaulay’s Arts Night for the last two years. Inevitably, something comes up every year: an exam, a paper, etc. This year, I vowed that I would submit a piece and attend the event. On April 26th, I put on a polka dot dress and tights (I always…
I don’t want to lay clichés in front of you. So let’s talk about something that comes across as over discussed but is clearly not. Racist sentiment has poked its ugly head quite a bit over the past week. Cliven Bundy, a well-known Nevada rancher, made ripples across the country when he made racist comments in…
“Hey. Have you gotten 2048 yet?” “No. I have not. I am so addicted though. Today while on the bus, I almost missed my stop because I was playing. But before I almost missed the stop, the person sitting next to me noticed what I was playing and started giving me tips!” This is the…
#485709029 / gettyimages.com Bernard Hopkins vs. Beibut Shumenov At the age of 49, few fighters would dare to get into the ring. Yet despite his age, the old maverick, Bernard “The Executioner” Hopkins, is schooling younger fighters in the ring. Hopkins has done just about everything in boxing, and he keeps getting better. From…
Mt. Gox, once the largest exchange for Bitcoin trading, filed for bankruptcy protection in Japan on February 28th. The exchange owed $63.6 million after losing almost 750,000 of its customers’ bitcoins and 100,000 of its own to fraud. Mt. Gox also filed for US Chapter 15 bankruptcy protection on March 10th to temporarily halt US…
Not that any individual can do much about it, but perhaps it’s nice to sit and wonder on a balmy day — where the hell is the world headed? Technology’s rapid progression has allowed us a glimpse into our future. Cars used to be science fiction, apparently — in what age, I wouldn’t know. Perhaps, someday, the…
Last semester, I wrote an article about my newfound passion for graphic novels, and I provided a list of some of the best ones I had read at the time. I’m continuing my quest to read all of the great graphic novels out there, and below, I present you with ten more authors and their…
At the beginning of the season, the Brooklyn Nets were picked by many experts to win the Atlantic Division, and ultimately challenge the defending champions, the Miami Heat, for the Eastern Conference crown. To say that things did not go as expected would be a massive understatement. At the end of the 2013 calendar year,…
“Before we started this club, we never experienced certain forms of dance,” says Danielle Gordon, co-president of The Macaulay Dancers, one of Macaulay’s rising clubs. The Macaulay Dancers is comprised of Macaulay students from various campuses and focuses on a range of dances, including modern dance, jazz, Bollywood, hip-hop, and tap. The team has performed…
Last year, the number of students who took the ACT, an aptitude test which largely measures knowledge acquired in school, was greater than the SAT, which measures test-taking abilities. The College Board, makers of the SAT, recently announced that in the spring of 2016, they will be changing the current format of the test to…
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