Knowledge is priceless but education is pricey
A transfer student’s analysis of our tuition woes Fellow students, lend me your ears, and about twenty bucks. I just paid tuition, and I’m hurting for some cash. It…
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Netiquette: the battle for civility on the world wide web
Ladies and Gentlemen, class is in session; welcome to Netiquette 101. We’re here to talk about something extremely important that really shouldn’t need to be discussed, but the vast screaming…
Playing the Hollywood Game: When Cinema and Nintendo Collide.
In gaming’s infancy, most of the premises were adapted from movies. Game developers were using films as hypertext as early as the dismal E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, crafted for the Atari…
A State Gun: Ready Aim Emblem
The sun sets as two men, nothing more than outlines, sit high on their horses, riding off towards the horizon. Their day on the untamed plains has left them weary,…
Midnight disease: Gaming culture at its finest
There were two girls at the party – if you could call it a party. Video game junkies, myself included, began filing into a Gamestop in Sandy at about 9:30…
J. Kirk Richards at the Covey Center
The Covey Center in downtown Provo is hosting a gallery of works by artist J. Kirk Richards. A Utah native, Richards studied art at BYU and was influenced by “the…
A history of unrelated Violence
Are video games the training ground for real-life carnage? As you all may know, a very tragic event occurred in Tucson recently, resulting in the near-death of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords…
Family: What the holidays are all about
Every holiday, people head home to their families for some time together. It’s a tradition, or maybe it’s something buried deep within us, that need for people close around these…
Long story short: ‘Black Ops’ is good
As soon as Black Ops loads up on your console, it’s easy to see that this is going to be something a little different. Even the menu screen is unusual,…
