Summertime is usually a time for being lazy, soaking up the sun and dreading the new school year, but for many college students, summer is also a time to earn some cash, be it in an air-conditioned office or outside in the blistering heat.

Quick with a whistle Matt Gebert, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, has only one complaint about his job.

“You get an uneven tan sitting on that chair,” he said. “My back is white but my thighs are tan.” [Read article]

Sorry, no sports this week. [Read article]

In 1989, the euphoria, optimism, and hope that flooded the streets of Berlin was palpable, as the world’s (ostensibly) last great wall fell – the Cold War won, not only by the West, but also by the frustrated and denigrated people of eastern Europe. It was a triumph of humanity over militarism, hope over fear.

And while we may wax romantic about those revolutionary years, it became evident in the 1990s that walls were meant to be torn down and not erected: free trade became the mantra of the day with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the formation of the World trade Organization (WTO); divisions between the people of Northern Ireland were pushed dramatically towards the obsolete; and, aside from the world’s abhorrent ignorance towards the tragedy of Rwanda, a theoretical global consensus was forged regarding the inhumanity of genocide everywhere. Indeed, walls were being torn down. People were meant to be a community – or so it seemed. [Read article]