One brisk morning at the Stop and Shop in Narragansett, RI, I found myself in the frozen foods section feeling completely overwhelmed. Jean-clad mothers pushed shopping carts filled to the br...

I have the privilege of serving on the Colgate Alumni Council and recently attended the Council's mid-winter meetings in Hamilton at which, in addition to helping to host Real World, the Council devoted substantial time and thought to President ]]> Thu, 2 Feb 2012 1.2762535 Commentary Terry Egler Commentary http://www.maroon-news.com/commentary/being-right-one-term-only-1.2762528 Alan He
This Week’s Topic: Republican Presidential Candidates

For whatever reasons, many commentators have bemoaned the current slate of Republican pres and shy;idential candidates. The media has incessantly fed into our fear that the Republican candidates...

Remember a few months back when nationwide polls were conducted and Herman Cain was gaining ground as a possible 'frontrunner' for the Republican nomination? Most of America knew these numbe...

As I'm sure many seniors already know, this job market is impossible to break into. It gets even harder when you're trying to make it into an industry that is supposedly dying. Anyone trying to make it in the book or magazine publishing world has a ver...

It's that time of year again. Classes are starting up, you're desperately yet unsuccessfully trying to make it into and out of the bookstore in less than two hours and that guy you hooked up with last semester finally went abroad and you don't have to ...

If I were to randomly ask Colgate students which candidate won the South Carolina Republican primary last week, I think a majority would be able to correctly answer that Newt Gingrich won. Many would also probably know irrelevant details such as venera...

It may be that the single most over-hyped word in our world is 'change.' But change is, in fact, ubiquitous. Perhaps the biggest change in our world is the great East-West 'shift' and ndash; the ri...

Like many of the seniors on this campus, I began my last semester at Colgate with the networking experience that is Real World. The weekend was certainly useful, at times en and shy;tertaining, ...

I had a conversation a while back with a member of the faculty who I respect very much about why Colgate students and alumni need to understand entrepreneurship. When I suggested that perhaps Colgate should offer classes dealing with entrepreneurship, ...

Well, it's that time again. There are only a few more weeks of school left until break, which means I have to go home soon. Damn it. See, unlike most of you out there, I kind of dread going home, which is funny because I really only go home for Christm...

The sun was setting and the air had finally cooled down to the point where we weren't sweating. The only sounds I could hear were the jeep tires on the dirt path and monkeys jumping around in trees. Warthogs eyed us as we drove through their land and g...

For those of you who are unaware, tensions have once again risen between the U.S. and our favorite frenemy, Pakistan. While fighting insurgents ...

Historically, the United States has had an iffy relationship with Pakistan since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 in which we did not aid Pakistan in the ways we had promised. Now our relations with Pakistan have become even more strained. ...

On the morning before Thanksgiving, I sat at the breakfast table in my aunt's darling pre-Revolutionary Connecticut home drinking my ritual morning coffee as I had so many times before. ...

A Brief Interview With Nick Arpey. ...

We're all a little bit superficial. I don't mean this in a bad way; it's just a statement of fact. After all, most of us don't want to hook up with just any random person who displays the slightest bit of interest or haphazardly crushes up against you ...

As recently as six centuries ago, some people thought the Earth was flat. Daring explorers in sailing vessels changed that. In 1912, German meteorologist Alfred Wegener published his ideas about 'continental drift,' which were briefly mentioned in our ...

Thanks for the insight on debt in this nation. It is true that debt is a severe problem in this country, especially credit card debt and debt incurred by taking out loans to attend private uni and shy;...

During the past month, as the Occupy Wall Street movement has picked up steam, the topic of rising income inequality has moved to the forefront of the political arena. In the past 30 years, America has experienced unprecedented economic growth. However...