Opinion
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Carol Grimm, Director of Health and Wellness MSUM
The Advocate teamed up with Hendrix Health to answer students’ questions about sexual issues. Inquiries are published anonymously.
Q: Does having sex really reduce stress?
A: The answer to this question is both yes and no. Any physical exercise, and this would include sex, where you get your blood pumping and are expending energy will reduce stress.
During sex, your body releases feel-good hormones, which include oxytocin and endorphins. These hormones cause you to relax and serve as tension relievers.
Editorial Staff
A new form of tuition is being discussed that would change the way the university does business.
The topic of banded tuition is being weighed in on by MSUM officials.
At other universities and colleges with banded tuition, students taking up to 18 credits per semester pay the same as students taking 12 credits per semester.
Holly Lavecchia, Columnist
A minute-long walk along an arctic, collegiate tundra. Barely beckons back happy, carefree days.
Chlamydia would be preferable to Deceivingly demonic, red Ears.
Advocate Staff
I’m old, Advocate readers. I know this not because I’m 21, but because the people around me are constantly doing “big people” things, like getting married.
My friends are flashing their engagement rings left and right, worrying about colors and entrees.
Their weddings are certainly going to be beautiful and moving. It’s the marriages that I’m worried about. Yes, weddings do tend to lead to marriage, and some people just aren’t ready.
Advocate Staff
By the time this column is printed, Barack Obama will have been the president of the United States for about two days. Then all of us can start hearing about other news.
What I will most like to stop hearing about are Rick Warren and the inaugural invocation.
For those of you unaware, allow me to recap: Rick Warren is a best selling, conservative, Evangelical pastor from California. His statements about homosexuals, women and science have landed him in some hot water with many liberals, moderates and even some right of center.
Advocate Staff
With Obama now in office, much of the nation was left dissatisfied. Many have mentioned, (and some even are looking into) what is no doubt the best option for disgruntled citizens: moving to Canada.
The United States has a history of people fleeing to the great north. When forces were being sent to Vietnam from 1969 to 1973, many young men fled to Canada to avoid the draft.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Editorial Staff
The dismal state of the current economic crises is having far-reaching negative implications for businesses, organizations and individuals all across the world.
That includes MSUM.
We all know the university is having severe budget issues. There’s talk of staff potentially being laid off.
Advocate Staff
During the holiday break, the first major dump of snow brought about a graceful, synchronized dance of the snow plows in the MSUM parking lot across from my residence.
Chugging along in unison, their movement and sound was hypnotizing as they produced gargantuan mounds of snow. I often wondered where these mounds of snow ended up after they had mysteriously vanished come morning.
Residing in a home near MSUM, I immediately found out the location: The corners of all streets, those with and without stop signs.
Kim Ehrlich, Opinion Editor
So you’ve picked out your classes carefully, managing to find the one that fits into that perfect place in your schedule and that fulfills the exact requirements you want, but now you actually have to go to the class.
Turns out, when you get there, you realize you have no real interest in the class and have no idea why you signed up for it in the first place. It’s amazing how many students end up settling for classes they ultimately won’t do well in.
Advocate Staff
It would stand to reason that MSUM’s alcohol policy is intended to discourage drunken disruptiveness on campus and encourage responsible behavior.
That’s what you would think anyway, and for the most part, it does. However, there is at least one part of the policy that is, as a friend of mine described it, “pretty bogus.”