You may have heard a variation or two of the chilling story where a man on a business trip goes to a local bar for a drink and notices the pretty girl staring back at him from across the bar. He approaches...

My hand shot up to take a news pitch at my first Globe meeting. Little did my freshman self know, no one else was actually going to take the smoking story, anyway.I always knew I wanted to be at the top,...

 In 1988, the state-chartered University of Michigan created a policy that intended to curb, based on the University's governing Board of Regents view, "..a rising tide of racial intolerance and harassment...

“The Globe looks great!”Every time I hear it from new and senior faculty, or from students I don’t even know, I feel enormous pride because I know how hard our staff works.Yet, I’m also reminded...

St. Patrick’s Day can turn the most casual drinker its trademark green the morning after a night of nationally socialized binge drinking. And so far there are no Weekend Words of Wisdom on how to survive...

Looking back on my semester as editor-in-chief, I realize this wasn’t the experience I thought it would be.Unlike past editors, I’m not going to reflect on my editorship with only positive memories.I...

Spring semester is almost over, and student motivation is at an all time low. Tedious assignments hang over students’ heads but are continually pushed aside. Procrastination is at an all time high, and...

It's hard to imagine a country currently more divided than Libya. Political turmoil does not even come close to describing the events that have transpired since February.A successful pro-democracy uprising...

With only a little over a week left in the semester, freshmen, sophomore and junior students’ heads are spinning with optimistic thoughts of summer vacation.While unwanted short-term goals like final...

I take my truth the same way I take my coffee: harsh, bitter and with a delicious muffin on the side. This healthy and occasionally overbearing skepticism keeps me from falling for some of the myths in...

Our shoulders are permanently slumped from carrying backpacks loaded with books, purple rings surround our eyes and coffee breath is a rampant problem. It is week seven of the semester, and it is awful. Chronic...

Back in 1996, Comedy Central launched a new genre of televised broadcasting. Taking elements from talk shows such as "The O'Reilly Factor "and adding a comedian's insight into all of the day's top stories,...