2008 Woodie Awards
While walking through the quad last Thursday, there were a few things you may have noticed. First, there were at least 50 expo tents where UM-St. Louis student organizations sat out and tabled for their organization, trying to encourage students, new and old, to join their organization.
If post 9/11 action thrillers qualify as a subgenre, the new mystery thriller "Traitor" might fit into that category. If so, it falls between thoughtful, complex works like "Syriana" and the simpler 2007 Saudi-set action movie "The Kingdom," a surprisingly intelligent and complex film for late summer, worthwhile but one that might not have achieved all it might.
To quote Richard Adams' classic Watership Down, "My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today." The words from the sometimes chilling tale of rabbits that haunted my thoughts as a youth--I would watch the film again and again, every time still tearing up over the plight of the poor bunnies--have struck a chord in my heart today.
There is a fantastic tradition on campus of complaining about Chartwells, the corporation that runs UM-St. Louis' cafeteria, catering and meal plans. I have never eaten regularly at the Nosh or any of the other officially-sanctioned grub joints on campus, but I have to admit I was pretty pleased a year or two ago when I found out there would be a cafeteria in the Provincial House.
It has been a pretty gorgeous Labor Day weekend. Sparkling sunshine beaming down, a gentle breeze blowing throughout the hottest points of the days. And the smell of fired up grills and barbeque has been wafting through the air everywhere you seem to go. Sounds great, right? Of course it does, if you eat meat.
Walking into to the University of Missouri-St. Louis, you can't help but notice that we have a very diverse community of students. In fact, the University celebrates and encourages students from different countries to "Pick UMSL." They send brochures and information to countless numbers of international students from all over the world in hopes that UMSL will be the university with which they choose to study abroad.
There was talk about it happening for a year. Before that, there was speculation. Finally, it happened. The University moved the Richard D. Schwartz Observatory at UM-St. Louis to a new location: Next to the Fine Arts Building off Florissant Road, by the softball field.
I have admittedly let myself go in college. My eating habits have turned from those of a normal girl with three meals a day to those of a scavenging gorilla, looking for something, anything, to sate that stress craving that hit me like a hammer after 9:30 Arabic.
With the Democratic and Republican conventions fresh in our minds, you are likely in the process of deciding how you will vote. Not just the candidates and issues matter, but how your vote is recorded may matter. Here are some facts about computer science and voting.
Well the semester is off with a bang, and UMSL is full of many new faces as well as many familiar ones. Take a look around and you may notice another student you recognize from a previous school, be it high school or college. You may find a person or a few people who you've worked with before.
So the Olympics ended last Saturday with that monster of the athletics events, the men's marathon: the long, taxing, historically-dubbed "plod" through the streets of Beijing for 26.2 miles. Anyway, the winner of the gold in the men's marathon was Samuel Wanjiru, of Kenya, no surprises there, who is only 21 years old.
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