Archives - Ethan Busch
UR Joking
April Fools! No guests allowed.
It’s always surprising when Reslife is organized enough to announce something, let alone have a policy.
Satire
Letter to the Editor: What the FUCK is up with laundry on this campus
I hope nobody’s breaking guest policy to get laid, because there’s not a chance in hell they’ll ever get to wash those sheets.
UR Joking
Boat’s Stuck. Can’t Help.
From the April Fools section: The current plan is to have the Mechanical Engineering students design tugboats to pull the larger boat into place.
drew brees
Goodbye number nine
Drew Brees did as much for New Orleans as any athlete has ever done for their city.
identity
You might need a linguistic attitude check
How many friendships and romances never formed because of the biased assumptions we have about language?
Museum
Corning Museum of Glass was worth the 99 mile trek
The Corning Museum of Glass is probably the biggest attraction to see in the big town with the same name, located just 100 miles north of the Pennsylvania border.
Poetry
Painting with words
If prose is a picture, capturing scenes with as many sentences as possible like pixels on a screen, poetry is a painting with artful brush strokes that demonstrate the skill of the artist and leave questions for the mind to fill.
Poem recommendations from friends.
“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by W.B. Yeats “Snail” by Langston Hughes “I, Too”…
Campus
Inside the Hopeman Carillon
At first glance the carillon looked similar to a stripped-down piano, with pegs and pedals arranged like keys, and cables that run up and down behind them. Watching it being played, however, showed just how different it is.
Alumni
Carillon concert commemorates COVID-19 tragedies
For the past week, the bells at the top of Rush Rhees were rung in memory of alumni who lost their lives due to COVID-19.