'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...

Four Loko-estimated time of death: 12:00 AM December 13, 2010. It is hard to imagine that in the span of three months Four Loko has gone from being a beloved alcoholic energy drink, to being banned on several college campuses, and then being banned nat...

Saturday, November 20 featured the 5th Annual Turkey Trot, hosted by Theta Pi, TKP, and PKE. The Turkey Trot was started by Theta Pi Sorority as a fundraiser in support of Blue Monarch, a non-profit organization designed for Tennessee women and their c...

On November 20th, GTU and Basic Needs hosted their annual 'Curry for Kids' benefit at the Women's Center. Plate upon plate of curried chicken and vegetables were sold to hungry Sewanee students and community members to raise money for the Susan Hubbard...

On Tuesday, September 28, Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank President Dennis Lockhart expressed tacit confidence in the nation's economic recovery, while still warning of potential risks during a speech at Convocation Hall ...

The quiet Globe Cafe sits tentatively next to McClurg, hopeful that the occasional, hungry student will wander inside and order a sandwich. Unfortunately, the student majority swarms to the dining hall, eager to use an unlimited meal plan and save flex...

In place of the old dry-cleaners, directly behind the Market, stands the newest restaurant in Sewanee, Ivy Wild. It's hard to imagine that the space could be transformed into a nice restaurant, but after one step inside, you quickly forget that the bui...

Put a Texan, North Carolinian, and a Tennessean in a room long enough and eventually the conversation will devolve into which state has the best barbeque. Tennesseans and North Carolinians will bicker over vinegar versus tomato based barbeque sauces an...

Two issues ago, I concluded a review of Sufjan Stevens' new EP by writing: 'If 'I Walked,' our first cold, dubstep-influenced taste of [Stevens' upcoming album] The Age of Adz, is any indication, Mr. Stevens is only about to get stranger.' And I...

Helen Mirren, brothel madam. Not the two words you would usually associate with the Academy Award-winning Dame of the British realm; however, in Taylor Hackford's recent film 'Love Ranch,' Mirren makes the leap from Queen Elizabeth II to Nevada bro...

The xx is not exactly known for witty stage banter. Like their shoegaze predecessors, the threesome from London barely acknowledged the crowd at the Tabernacle in Atlanta on October 6th. This attitude did not seem to come from pretension, however, for ...

After an ungodly long amount of time without losing a game as a starter, Greg McElroy finally lost and Alabama tumbled from their top spot as the number one team in college football. After the Tide's disheartening loss to South Carolina, Ohio State ass...

The Sewanee Tennis teams compete in both the fall and spring semesters. Although spring is the traditional season including over 20 dual matches, the SCAC Championships, and the NCAA Tournament, the teams compete each fall in the USTA/ITA Regional Cham...

The women's soccer team has taken the field and their season by storm. With a 5-5 overall record and never having lost a game by more than one goal, these ladies are getting the job done. During Family Weekend, October 1-3, the girls took on both Austi...

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...

On Sunday, September 16, 22 cars and one motorcycle were found vandalized in the Cravens' parking lot, commonly referred to as 'Hell,' in the area between the Tennessee Williams Center and Cravens Hall. The damages, ranging from broken windows to dente...

Mack Brown's Longhorns received a reality check this weekend with a blowout loss at home to the UCLA Bruins: the and lsquo;Horns just aren't that very good on offense. Brown's preseason statements regarding pushing the run game and 'best defense I've ever...