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This is the first post for the Student Coalition’s Courant 2011 blog! Every two weeks, new information will be posted about current events and other projects that your student government is doing.
Category: Blogs
Fresh, funny, and personal – straight from the Courant staff.
College Football Power Rankings
John Berger
Reporter
We’re entering week 11 of the college football season, and so far the season has been laced with drama. Except, the drama is for all the wrong reasons, with off the field issues overshadowing the play on the field. Before the season even began, the college football world was rocked by a Yahoo! story about a renegade University of Miami booster who allegedly committed a myriad of NCAA violations. That was after an offseason filled with other issues, including “Tattoo-gate” with Ohio State, and Oregon and LSU dealing with a scout by the name of Willie Lyles. Still, all of that pales in comparison to the recent story at Penn State regarding an alleged child molester of a former coach and a lack of decisive action on the part of the higher-ups at the school.
The One Way Relationship Train
Kate Gilhool
Associate Editor
I hope it isn’t just me, but I feel like I have special relationships with celebrities even if I’ve never met them. When my girl Kim K filed for divorce a few weeks ago I was in shock because I had just celebrated her wedding 72 days before. When I say that I celebrated her wedding to Kris Humpries I mean that I spent 3 hours on the Dr. Pit couch in our living room watching her 3 part wedding special on E! News.
Squirrels Beware…
Gogo Jones
Sports Editor
I literally cannot think of a more annoying creature than the squirrel. Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve grown up in a town where these lil’ gremlins can be found every five feet, or maybe it’s the fact that they gypsy all of the bird seed my dad puts out for more respectable fauna such as cardinals- but boy do I hate them.
The Electability of Barack Obama
Juan Pablo Rivera Garza Reporter In 2008 Barack Obama rode into the White House with a landslide victory unseen since the days of Reagan, now