By: Megan Lieberman

Finding love can be awkward, forced and often embarrassing.  Making the first move, whether it’s flashing a smile or buying someone a drink, can be the start of something new – but only if you get there first. While some college students ...

By: Irene Muniz-Frias

Everyone had a freshman year tradition. For my three best friends and I, it was weekly brunch – Sundays, Stetson West, noon sharp … well, not always so sharp. Over chicken stir-fry and buffalo chicken pizza we shared stories from our previous...

By: Stephanie S. Daly

Walk through a mall, supermarket or convenience store lately and you will start seeing red – in the form of  heart-shaped boxes. Feb. 14 is just around the corner and stores are packing in boxes of chocolates for Valentine’s Day. But does...

By: Katie Kriz

It all began in the name of true love, St. Valentine as its advocate. It was 200 A.D. and young men were meant to be soldiers. If they had a wife they wouldn’t leave for battle, or so said the Emperor of Rome. But while the government forbade spirit...

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Recently, there’s been a topic of debate in my apartment:  Is Megan Fox hot? My male friends and even my roommates’ boyfriends openly gawk over her recent Cosmopolitan cover staring up at us from the coffee table. We girls say the only re...

By: Quinn Bott

Procrastination may be a hallmark of college students. It’s in the sleepy eyes of anyone typing furiously in InfoCommons after midnight. It’s alive and well in the yawns of students clicking “Submit” seconds before their deadline. ...

By: Jason Woods

With health care legislation passed in the House and moving forward in the Senate, attention is now turning toward how healthcare reform will impact the uninsured, and what such a reform actually means.         ...

By: Alex Dreiblatt

 Quick, roll out of bed, grab some coffee and book it: Class starts in five minutes. Now the debate is: breakfast or lunch? Wait, does coffee count as a meal? With time commitments and stresses piling up, many students are forced to eat less nutritio...

By: Quinn Bott

 A banner in Behrakis Heath Science Center announces the theme of American Pharmacists Month:  “Know your Medicine, Know your Pharmacist.” Hosted by the the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) every October, this year’s pha...

By: Irene Muniz

 The hookup generation is here, and it's gaining popularity, some experts said, despite some abiguity of the term ‘hook-up.’ “One of the things the research shows is that people use the term ‘hook-up’ in a purposely ambi...

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Courtesy of “The InterCourses” by Martha Hopkins and Randall Lockridge. Yields 2 to 3 servings 6 stalks thick asparagus or 12 stalks thin, trimmed 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard 1⁄2 teaspoon honey 1 clove of g...

By: Danny Deza

Whether it is nibbling on a piece of dark chocolate with a glass of wine or adding certain ingredients to that home-cooked meal, experts say certain foods can help improve your sex life. Author David Zinczenko lists foods that may help or hurt your sex li...

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What if 16 or 17-year-old Chan Marshall – also know as Cat Power – had her chance to meet her idol, Bob Dylan? In a park somewhere, waving her arms? Or a couple of years later, in a packed Parisian stadium? She’d avow the sort of love th...

By: By Danny Deza

The sun is out and summer is quickly approaching. Despite the temperamental weather, sometimes exercise activities are being offered in an outdoor settings throughout the Boston and Cambridge areas. According to an ongoing poll on fitsugar.com, a fitness ...

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As a general rule, I’d rather pay $10 to watch a romantic comedy of errors at AMC Loews than watch my life become one, free of charge. Too bad 2009 has been, so far, the year of comical dating. January and February, at least. For a good 60-something...

By: Rachel Bater

Melissa Robinson, a freshman business major, said she didn’t exactly know how to cope when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007. She had many questions, she said, and at times, felt isolated. “I didn’t really know what to ...