It’s usually when I’m in an enclosed area with someone for a long time that I get the question.“What’s the scar from?” they ask.The last time I remember being asked was last September at Disneyland....
About a week before Spring Break, I saw Facebook statuses and tweets from friends and family pining for their upcoming trips — South Padre, the Caribbean, Florida and even England. And where was I over...
In my mind, Lord Voldemort is a real person, and his name is Fred Phelps.Once again, Phelps is back in the news. He died Wednesday at his home in Topeka. Social media and national news outlets picked up...
Hundreds flocked to the Campus Activities Center Theatre at Wichita State on Thursday to enjoy a night of hypnosis and something I’ve never seen the Student Activities Council do: an R-rated show.“The...
If you are one of the millions of Americans that filled out a bracket for the NCAA tournament this year, your hopes of perfection were likely dashed in the round of 64.Maybe it was the upsets from Harvard...
As I looked down at my feet the other day, a wave of nostalgia and surprise washed over me. Holes were starting to form in the toes of my nearly two-year-old running shoes. Dirt had seeped into the soles,...
“300” was an incredibly stylish and incredibly stupid movie. It looked cool at the time and had some fun action sequences, but there wasn’t much beyond that. Its target audience was teenage boys...
In a sports setting, rowdy crowds that produce insane amounts of noise for their favorite team generate one of the best atmospheres that a spectator can ever witness.With the unbelievable atmosphere comes...
Imagine this: you’re on the treadmill, about to finish the last mile of your run. As you’re running uphill, “Survivor” by Destiny’s Child is pulsing through your headphones, the only thing propelling...
Midterms are right around the corner, which means it’s about time for each of us to take stock of how all our classes are going.Personally, this is right around the time the semester stops being fun...
We’re hurtling toward a more global economy at an accelerated pace. It’s one of those things people have said for centuries. I’m sure children in second-century China heard this as much as we do...
Our generation has been called many things, usually with negative overtones. The “millennial” generation or the “me” generation seem to be most common. The names tend to criticize our perceived...
