It’s the plotline of a bad movie. High school senior, bummed about his lack of offers from Division I schools to play football, fakes it. He makes up interactions with big time coaches; his tough decision with signing day fast approaching and the laundry list of offers from schools all over the country.
Opinion
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After our Campus Press class meeting last Wednesday, my editor motioned for me to sit down next to her. “Max, would you be willing to write an opinion piece about Bruce Benson?”
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Did you know that according to guardian.co.uk more people voted in the American Idol contest than the last presidential election? The harsh truth is that reality TV brings our country together more than the 200-year-old democratic tradition of voting for our next president.
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I was sitting at home filling out my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles valentines for the swim team members that I watch while I bounce up and down on the elliptical at the Rec Center, but then I got to thinking: no one deserves a valentine more than the teachers responsible for my education! What a great opportunity to express my gratitude! Here are some highlights from this spring that I’m grateful for: On the second day of biology, my teacher put up a PowerPoint slide that said: “Phylogeny=a hypothesis about the relationships among different groups of organisms.
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I grew up bringing used plastic bags to the grocery store. I loathed the experience. My mom would drag me through the aisles, piling our cart high with organic soy-and-allergen-free food, and every time we moved, one of those crinkly, bunched-up pieces of grimy plastic would break free and float down to the floor.
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So, it’s been a semester since you got here, your classes have been going good, you’ve got your first college girlfriend or boyfriend, and you haven’t gotten an MIP quite yet. Life is good, but there are still those little things your roommate does that drive you insane.
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“Can I bum a cigarette?” I frequently hear this question asked around campus, especially at parties. I would like to ask a smoker this same question-but for a different reason. I would ask to bum a cigarette, or two, or four, or the whole pack, and then I would proceed to throw, with all my 5’2” might, whatever I was able to “bum” as far away as possible.
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Angelina Jolie poured onto magazine covers in recent years, dressed down in cargo pants and wife-beater, always photographed with her favorite accessories–her newly adopted children from Asia and Africa. In a trend that has become the new “Hollywood Chic,” international children have become the designer purses of smug activists.
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Driving around campus looking for a spot (not even an ideal one either) can sometimes feel like a never-ending race track; the Champs-Elysées of Boulder. Like most college campuses, CU doesn’t favor its students parking on campus. However, this creates an extremely frustrating parking problem for visiting family members, friends, students and so on.
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The Winter Classic game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Buffalo Sabres took place in Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo on New Years Day. Over 70,000 fans left the warm confines of their homes to freeze in the stadium seats. It was then that the NHL realized the opportunity at hand.