'Sir, please step aside,' the Travel Security Administration agent instructed me at the Nashville airport last week as I was about to fly home to San Antonio. Falling victim to 'random selection,' I was taken to a separate line to go through the contro...

I went shopping in Macy's with a really good friend of mine, lets call her 'Jane,' having no idea what I would get myself into that day. Jane and I are looking around, trying on some clothes and having a blast when I see something out of the corner of ...

As you walk into to Spencer or the newly renovated Snowden, you may notice a large and official looking glass plaque that clearly announces for all to hear that this building is environmentally friendly and LEED certified-the hippie architect and insti...

She likes it on the desk. Another likes it on the floor. Others against the wall, on the futon, or ...under the bed? That's because girls everywhere have been posting these declarations on their Facebook profiles for the last week, causing a spike in c...

Some call me a handsome man; some call me a sarcastic ass; all will call me a charismatic Mr. Nice Guy who lives for himself and lives to see others happy. Mr. Nice Guys seem to get a bad reputation as being unacceptable in our society; face it, who wa...

Sewanee is a university steeped in tradition. From our gothic architecture that reaches back to a tradition centuries before ours was established to the Episcopalian ideals that continually resurface in the ceremonies taking place in All Saints Chapel....

We are one of the few institutions that still have them. The students complain about them. Even the professors complain about them. They turn prospective students away from Sewanee and they make seniors wish they had gone somewhere else. They ruin brea...

and iquest;Hablas Espa and ntilde;ol? Want to see the world? Then study abroad is your dream come true. Sewanee offers several study abroad programs, including a semester in Spain, and I can tell you from experience, there's nothing like it. Last semester I w...

According a poll conducted by the Purple, Dr. McCardell is enjoying a level of popularity that would make any politician envious. That's because the overwhelming majority of students - 98% to be exact - approve or strongly approve of McCardell's perfor...

Political Correctness (PC) allows people to consciously view some form of human suffering as more acceptable, and when PC tries to include everyone, it excludes everyone. PC includes euphemisms, things that have been renamed in order to be less offensi...

Get ready for the dirtiest rush season in living memory. A number of factors have converged to ensure that this semester will be full of IFC violations, secret gatherings, extended social probations, and a lot trash pickup for Sewanee's fraternity men....

It seems that, for many, sophomore year is something like waking up on a Sunday afternoon with hazy recollections of an alcohol-drenched weekend. As sophomores stagger from the surreal honeymoon suite of freshman year and squint into the not-so-sophomoric...

On January 19^th, 2010 the voters of Massachusetts fired a shot heard around Capitol Hill. The seat of the Liberal Lion and strongest advocate for Comprehensive Healthcare Reform, Ted Kennedy, was lost by democrats and placed into Republican h...

If popular opinion means anything then Lady Gaga is either the best and most important pop-singer since Madonna or a trashy, shallow, overi...

Relying on a covert system of winks, blown kisses, and late night rendezvous, romantic couples working tog...

It started with a gown aid e-mail with the subject line 'Want to look like Harry Potter but don't have an account at Gringotts?' and continued with the OG sponsored screening of the new Harry Potter film, offering free tickets to those who ca...

While my friends experimented with alcohol and drugs during high school, I experimented with idealism and hero worship, and while they fell under the influence of their ill-gotten six packs, I fell under the influence of the heroes in m...

Dear Purple Readers, Over the past few weeks, as we transverse the Domain, we repeatedly saw one specific species in every system that we explored: the discipuli-socioathletatum. This semi-rare species is a true testament to natural selection and ...

In a expletive-laced expulsion of vitriol on my radio show last week (The Pete Doherty Rehab Hour, Every Tuesday, 11-12am [/end shameless plug]), I first expressed my opinion on the changes made to registration, for which I was almost banned from WUTS, so...

The world has an addiction. No matter what country or culture-be it an impoverished developing country or an industrialized nation-we (and I am generalizing here of course) crave sports to the point that our craving exceeds obsession an...