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Kristen Maikoo, Managing Editor
April 25, 2013
Yet another movie about aliens, The Host, directed by Andrew Niccol, portrays a different take on typical alien invasions; the hijacking of our souls. That’s right, the glowing, mesmerizing, tendril-adorned aliens within us—or rather the characters in the movie. Based on Stephanie Meyer’s novel... Read more »
Carl Blankenship, Staff Writer
April 15, 2013
I have Senioritis. I kind of float through my day-to-day routine, slacking off until midnight to even begin working on some mountain of assignments that float across my psyche as elegantly as a dead cat in a blender. I tend to opt for a powerful kind of numbness when I work. I start working late... Read more »
Rachael Robertson, Staff Writer
March 15, 2013
As almost everyone knows, there is a timeless classic movie called “The Wizard of Oz.” A movie just came out explaining the Wizard named Oz. “Oz the Great and Powerful,” was recently released; this is not a remake of the previous. In this movie, Oscar/Oz (James Franco) is transported from Kansas... Read more »
Carl Blankenship, Staff Writer
March 12, 2013
Path of Exile manages to be different and highly familiar. It’s a game with a very specific target audience: The min/maxing, hardcore, time measuring, players that eat up ARPGs like a drug. For those people, this game is a dream come true. It has all the things that number crunchers love: complex... Read more »
Carl Blankenship, Staff Writer
March 11, 2013
“They want obedient workers – someone just smart enough to do the job but not quite smart enough to question” – George Carlin Carlin was a rare beast; He was unbelievably blunt with all of his commentary. His volatile opinions on everything from religion to our perception of “stuff” incited... Read more »
March 8, 2013
The PS4’s unveiling was a largely exciting event, as the archaic “current gen” consoles have been sitting stagnant and becoming more stale for the past few years, but Sony’s press conference opted for the standard 90% marketing and 10% information approach, so here’s a breakdown of the relevant... Read more »
Carl Blankenship, Staff Writer
February 28, 2013
Lunch is a problematic time of day. On the surface, school lunch seems like a juvenile subject, but in reality the operation involves feeding hundreds of students at this school five days a week.. Take into account the volume of schools around the country that, in total, feed millions of kids, five... Read more »
Justin Scism, Staff Writer
February 25, 2013
Averaging over 300 million tweets each day, Twitter is certainly no stranger to the strange and humorous “hash tags”, or phrases used to categorize a tweet sent by a user. I decided to take a closer look at the ever-changing array of popular hash tags, and the results were, as expected, quite comical.... Read more »
Molly Beasley and Justin Scism, Editor-in-Chief and Staff Writer
February 21, 2013
In newspaper we like to discuss what could be in our next edition. Every now and then we get into discussions about what grinds our gears about Glenn. Here are a few: You know what really grinds our gears? Why does the school go into lockdown mode as soon as the bell rings? As you may have noticed, the... Read more »
Kelsey Hamilton, Staff Writer
February 14, 2013
Sagging pants, Lil’ Wayne does it. Every other of rapper in the world along with latest sensation Justin Beiber does it too. That must make it cool, right? Well, if you’re trying to show off your new flashy underwear that’s just great! We all love to look up from our daily lunch date with our... Read more »
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