Darts & Laurels: June 13, 2019
By Alligator Editorial Board | June 13, 2019It’s the weekend, or at least your definition of it, as you only have class three days a week.
It’s the weekend, or at least your definition of it, as you only have class three days a week.
Let’s not give into hate or distraction.
With Summer B fast approaching and football season not so far behind, we expect more sloppy Snapchat stories to cloud our feed. But now may be the time to check on drinking tendencies before the mayhem starts all over again.
I flew into Los Angeles on Wednesday and I’ve been here for around six days now. It’s my first time here and I’ve hit all the typical tourist stops, but one of the coolest things I’ve seen on my trip came when I hadn’t even stepped off the plane: While descending to land at LAX, I got a perfect overhead view of the currently-under-construction Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park, the future home of the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers.
For months, I remember coming home from elementary school and excitedly turning on the television each night to hear the same opening words, “Bombshell in the courtroom.”
Your one class of the day is finally done. Of course, the sky is dumping water down like the ground is on fire.
There sure seems to be a lot of plagiarism in Student Government, eh? It’s almost as if there’s this whole entire environment filled with people who don’t care about the rules.
While I was re-learning grammar for the like the third time, the course I was taking made a point to distinguish between “feeling bad” and “feeling badly.”
I generally consider myself a baseball purist.
Do we love our morals more than Kanye loves Kanye?
What happened to people’s fascination with the unknown?
Now that summer is fast approaching, some of you may be looking for ways to spend these sunny days.
You finally scraped together enough money to buy a flight out of Orlando.
Last year was the year Twitter banded together to ditch plastic straws.
Saying everything while saying nothing at all.
There’s no written rulebook to social media. But human’s knack for teetering between conformity and individuality has resulted in a set of unspoken social media guidelines the college-aged population seems to follow.
Ah, Millennials.
Everyone seeks Beyoncé’s approval - actress Emilia Clarke included. Clarke, who plays the Mother of Dragons, First of her Name Daenerys Targaryen, feared Beyoncé would hate Daenerys after the recent season. Clarke showed no ignorance with this worry. Now that we know what we know about Daenerys, season eight of Game of Thrones has us wondering: “Do the writers...possibly...not know women?”
Now I know I have mentioned Student Body President Michael Murphy’s borderline plagiarized inaugural speech in my last couple of columns, but I feel like I should probably do my due diligence and write about other instances of plagiarism that have happened in the past.
What the Alabama abortion ban is really about