For the first time since 2007, Internet users are allowed to watch YouTube in Turkey. The Turkish government blocked the video-sharing website based on complaints about† videos uploaded on the site that made fun of the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.† It …
November 5, 2010
58 people killed in Iraqi massacre
A massacre of Iraqi Christians occurred on Monday at Our Lady of Salvation Church in Baghdad. The New York Times reported that this was the worst massacre of Christians since the war began in 2003. Before the war, Iraq was home to somewhere between 800,000 …
Political Ads distract from the issues
It’s election time again, and political advertisements have once again flooded our favorite television shows and even our mailboxes telling us who to vote for. So if you enjoy watching two candidates having a verbal fight to the death on your television screen, then you …
Shape up, Wooster
The past two months have been an eventful chapter in The College of Wooster’s anthology, a section I would call “The Fall of Etiquette.” Despite the College’s legitimization of emptying our wallets with the $30 million Scot Center or aesthetic restoration of living spaces to …
Pennies are outdated and useless
For a long time, I have considered myself to be a fairly happy person.† I don’t hold many grudges, I detest bullying and meanness and I hope to smile more than I frown.† Try as I might, though, there are three things that truly get …