Entries Tagged as ‘Commentary’

April 23, 2008

Love and Harmony

By Chris Harmon - Advice Columnist

Need advice? Sometimes you can’t, or don’t want to, talk to friends or relatives. In those cases, we provide an objective third party to advise you on your situation. Love and Harmony is a new monthly advice column presented by The Patriot Newspaper. This advice column answers students’ questions about [...]

April 9, 2008

Is the Internet causing more teen violence?

By Jessica Staggs - Copy Editor

Parents have long blamed movies, music, television and video games as the source of teenage violence. It seems to me, however, that a Hollywood production has much less of an impact than home videos posted on the Internet by other teens. Journey to YouTube and search the word ‘fight.’ [...]

April 4, 2008

New aesthetic

By Rishi Kabir - Entertainment Manager  On a blissful Friday where all of the perfunctory deeds of past week seems to merge into a semi congealed memory-mush, there comes the inevitable choice- should I watch the pale workings of The Lake House, or should I go with Fight Club for the 500th time. [...]

March 27, 2008

Enjoying the Spectrum: A Plea for Balance

By Brad Bell

What I dream of is an art of balance. — Henry Matisse Most of the time I feel like a little kid when he gets a piano all to himself for the first time. Yeah, it’s fun plop your fingers down at random, discovering which side makes the low notes and which side [...]

March 9, 2008

Love and Harmony: Keeping it real

By Chris Harmon
Dear Love and Harmony,
My boyfriend seems to have lost all interest all together in me these past couple weeks. The only time he seems to open his eyes and care at all, is when it will benefit him in some way. How can I make my boyfriend open his eyes and [...]