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2012: The Awakening of the Sleeping Monster of Global People-Power

Hiram Crespo January 26, 2013

    In recent years, the Mayan script has been decoded and great advances have been made in our understanding of Mayan culture. This has inspired a renewal of interest in Mayan spiritual...

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Catfishing – When People Take The Bait

Jacklyn Nowotnik January 26, 2013

  Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o found out the hard way that even having celebrity status won’t necessarily protect a person from being “catfished.” According to the Urban Dictionary...

Letter To The Editor

Peter Ali Enger January 22, 2013

You recently ran an article on the front page of your paper titled “WZRD 88.3 Back In Business”. We in the WZRD Collective object to this article on the following grounds: for one thing, it is wrong....

Letter To The Editor

Peter Ali Enger December 5, 2012

  You recently ran an article on the front page of your paper titled “WZRD 88.3 Back In Business”. We in the WZRD Collective object to this article on the following grounds: for one thing,...

How consumerism beat genius

Hiram Crespo, Staff Writer November 14, 2012

Candles are magical, but light bulbs have a magic that candles don’t have. One never sees a cartoon with a candle symbolizing a person having a brilliant idea. Light bulbs represent human genius. While...

Get Out the Way

Joseph Daddario November 14, 2012

    “Get out the way!” “Get off the sidewalk!” “Damn hippy!” are a few of the common things a biker hears while trying to maneuver around the obstacle course of Chicago...

Cyclist menace growing, nationally recognized

Emily Haddad November 14, 2012

Illinois saw 3,107 cyclist collisions in 2011, with 1,757 in Chicago alone, according to the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT). The news regularly reports on cyclists being hit and killed by...

Chicago Public Schools: A Self-Destructive System

Karina Rivera November 14, 2012

Bold words from Jean-Claude Brizard show little mercy to the current Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system. Misplaced power, according to this resigned CEO of CPS, is the key error of CPS. Power currently...

Revising Views on Atheism

Hiram Crespo, Staff Writer October 31, 2012

The public discourse on the role of religion in our daily lives too often lacks the voice of atheists, and mass media further silences atheists when it persistently upholds the tenet that an atheist...

Corporation Giving: A View Outside Your Own

Karina Rivera October 31, 2012

The controversy of corporate giving is not necessarily a new occurrence, but that does not mean it is a topic that deserves no attention. Big time corporations: Target, K-Mart and Starbucks, just to name...

Amendment 49, Unclear and Poorly Defined

October 31, 2012

On November 6, voters of the State of Illinois will be asked to vote on HJRCA49 (House Joint Resolution Constitutional Amendment 49) an amendment to the Illinois Constitution. Few voters know anything...

The JET Programme

Michael Seidman October 17, 2012

The Japanese Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme has distinguished itself among a gamut of “teach English abroad” programs as one of the largest and most widely recognized of its kind since 1987....

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