Archive | June, 2011

Experience for Experience

Personally, I do not frequently watch Glenn Beck on Fox, but my mother is an avid follower. When I got home yesterday, she forced me to sit down and watch because he was interviewing college students about internships. I was shocked by their honesty with their employer. Whenever confronted by my boss in the past, [...]

Plans thwarted

“I am going to Sudan in July and hope to stop in England on the way. I am just hoping Mrs. Thatcher is well enough to see me as I so admire her.” —Sarah Palin to Christina Lamb in London’s Sunday Times, 2011 June 5 “Lady Thatcher will not be seeing Sarah Palin. That would [...]

Perplexed and befuddled

So it’s finally happened. Vanderbilt Student Communications has announced the sale of WRVU, the student-run campus radio station. After months of protest, speculation, and debate, there’s nothing left to discuss—Nashville Public Radio will be paying VSC $3,350,000, and WRVU will become WFCL on June 8, 2011. As in midnight tonight. Public radio? Yes, indeed. WRVU [...]

Just being reasonable

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/06/mitt_romney_says_reasonable-so.html What they said. What do Torch readers think? Did Romney’s comments hurt his standing with MainstreamRepublicans/TeaPartiers/GlennBeckFans/AtlasShruggers/theReligiousRight/MeghanMcCain?

If Not Now, When?

“Ninety-five per cent of Italian men have never operated a washing machine. Until 1981, a ‘crime of honor’—killing your wife for being unfaithful or your sister for having premarital sex—could be treated as a lesser offense than other murders; as late as 2007, a man in Palermo was sentenced to just two days in jail [...]