I keep forgetting the most important information you didn’t already know: We’ve gone and elected the new leadership for the 2009-2010 Torch staff. I know, right? Hilarious Frannie Boyle will be taking over as editor in chief, and freshmen Phil Carroll and Martha Hellman will serve as associate editors. They will stun and amaze you [...]
As I thankfully say goodbye to the midterm two weeks of hell and brace myself for what’s to come at CPAC this weekend, I read the e-mail outgoing VSG president Joseph Williams sent to the undergraduate student body. His subject line: “LAST CHANCE TO VOTE IN VSG ELECTIONS” How I read it: “LAST TIME WE [...]
Last night, I met former Senator Bill Frist outside a restaurant here in Nashville. We were both with family celebrating our birthdays (his is apparently today). He was pretty nice and engaging, and the relaxedness of it made a typical Nashville/southern encounter. My brother was there and said he recognized Sen. Frist too, but he [...]
So, today’s my birthday. I’m, apparently, 21. I feel a tad Rip Van Winklish, though, like I’m really still 14 and super awkward. Because Boston taught us that it’s really more than a feeling, I’ve decided to share the glory of my continued awkwardness. Last summer, all the RNC interns had the privilege of having [...]
Ace wonders if he’s the only one, with an excellent point about professional sports (that I don’t necessarily agree with since I’m still young enough to believe in it all): This year I just don’t care. My interest in football has been declining a bit as I’ve gotten older — exactly why I am rooting [...]
Aaaaand, we’re back. Mike and I had papers due over the past two days (…including a paper on Friedrich Engels’s Conditions of the Working Class, which is an excellent cure for the will to live), not to mention the January edition of the Vanderbilt Torch. Above, our back page fake ad, about our Kafka-esque upperclass [...]
So, Frannie and I were both called upon to pinch hit for delinquent Hustler opinion columnists today. Which usually means a lot less politics, and a lot more social life (see this or this). Frannie educates us on what age nineteen is like without a fake ID (I could offer a followup on what twenty [...]
This morning, I received an email that the blog is one of ten finalists in America’s Future Foundation’s College Blogger Contest for 2009, as well as the awesome crew at the Oregon Commentator (Mike and I met the very cool CJ Ciaramella in New York in the fall). As CJ mentions in his post, the [...]
For almost a year, we’ve been pussyfooting around with moving over to WordPress, and finally, Christmas break 2008 has afforded me the opportunity to do so. So, here we are now, at Vandy Right. With this post, we formally bid auf wiedersehen to Right-Wing Vitriol, the fine title we operated under for almost a year, [...]
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