Opinion
Holding onto Holidays Abroad
All my assumptions that Salzburg could not get more beautiful faded away once the Christmas decorations started to go up. The city squares (“platz”) were previously filled with normal, everyday souvenir stands and giant chessboards that are now packed away …
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The Gift of Giving: Finding that gift for your significant other
Now that the countdown to the countdown of ABC Family’s 25 Days of Christmas is over, we can finally feel guilt free about buying Christmas gifts. Although the main focus of Christmas is receiving gifts, there is a lot to …
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CSB Junior defines being a Bennie in a healthy manner
All the hype about “Bennie Swag” and the stereotypical fashion sense Bennies apparently have has caused me to question why it is such a big deal. Why is it that an attack on our fashion expertise is a criminal offense …
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Occupy: Agreeing to disagree
After reading last week’s opinion piece about the Occupy Wall Street movement, I found myself deeply troubled. The author asserted that the Occupy movement is representative of decay in the American value of hard work and symptomatic of what he …
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Black Friday takeover
Thanksgiving is a joke. Is our culture so lacking in sincerity that we cannot be true to our word even for one day? This is our so-called “day of thanks,” and yet it is immediately followed by the most fanatic …
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Surviving the awkward
This week, we are here to remind you of an upcoming holiday: Thanksgiving. Despite the turkey’s best efforts at erasing this holiday by promoting Christmas exclusively, we have not forgotten the trauma that is Thanksgiving supper. Because Sear’s has already …
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Take chapped lips seriously
Now that Minnesota’s god of winter has started to set up shop, your most valuable extremity has come under assault. Your lips are just starting to go through their winter phase, which, in Minnesota, stretches until a brief period of …
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Could you answer, “I do?”
About a week ago, yet another celebrity made public her divorce after a few weeks of marriage to a dear Minnesotan named Kris Humphries. This was not surprising because celebrities have an affinity for getting married, only to break up …
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SJU junior looks at Occupy Movement with “great disgust”
I have been watching the recent Occupy movement with great disgust. What has happened to America? We used to be the people who did things for themselves and did not want or expect people to help them out. Now I …
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When life gets tough, SJU senior says push on
I want to tell you a true story about one of the most amazing people I have ever met in my life. This person taught me a lesson I would never forget, a lesson I remind myself of every time …
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