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As I write this, my farewell-tothe-Griffon-News commentary, I admit I am sorely tempted to write a poignant, perhaps borderline trite, review of my various experiences on staff. No doubt, I have made enough memories in this crazy office to fill my slot on this page, but I’d like to dig a little deeper.

I see them everywhere… People trekking across campus, oblivious to the world because they’ve got their headphones on and their iPod rocking. From the year 2005 to 2006, the number of people who own digital music players more than tripled, booming from eight percent to 27 percent.

Through my time in college, I have come to believe that Missouri Western is raising, not highly trained professionals ready for the real world, but expert hoop-jumpers that would do the Ringling Brothers proud.

It was the kind of nervousness you feel when you’re reclined in the dentist’s office with a shiny drill hovering over your pried-open mouth.

As I finished registering for classes online last week, I found myself faced with a decision to make, a decision larger than which semester I should take my PED 101 class. As I examined the list of classes I have left to take before I could graduate, I realized how crunched my schedule will be [...]

Webster defines “awkward” as lacking ease or grace; I define awkward as having a purple vibrator strapped in place around my jeans, in a room full of giggling women.

There is a fine line between “ill” and “gifted.”