It’s the end of the year now, and what do you have to show for it? Personally, I am always shocked by how much paper I have accumulated—readings, flashcards, religious and political flyers, and other things I put aside during the week to thoroughly examine during the weekend. Anyone who has stuck around on campus post-graduation knows the mayhem that follows our year of academic accumulation. Move-out exposes our material consumerism, one of many dark underbellies that is rev

New York State announced this month that it is now (mostly) safe to eat (some) fish caught out of the Hudson River. Obviously, many anticipate some uproar from our sister school under-the-Hudson, Carpumbia. The television news crews have relocated from the islands in Broadway to the river’s muddy shores, all eyes on our intellectual brethren under the surface. To get a better understanding of the cultural ripple effect, I arranged a rendezvous with my counterpart at Rivermud