Opinions Section
April 24, 20138:55 am
Sexpert: Final Tips for the Semester
By Meghan Root, Resident Sexpert
Dear Miss Meghan, Any tips for getting through the end of the semester stress? -Finally Dear Finally, I think the biggest mistake I see students make is not taking care of themselves. Understandably, when we are stressed out and busy the first things to get cut are eating well, exercise, and sleep. Yet those are [...]
April 24, 20138:44 am
An Update on the Space Age
At the time of writing, the Orbital Sciences Corporation is planning to launch a large, two-stage rocket called Antares. The launch is a trial meant to test the spaceworthiness of the rocket and make sure it is capable of safely releasing a small cargo vessel into orbit. If successful, this launch will effectively green-light the [...]
April 20, 201311:40 am
Humor Column: ‘Finals’, A Poem
By Delia Titzell, Staff Writer
Finals A Poem in the Style of Mister Dr. Seuss At St. Mary’s College, Where the grickle grass grows, at Historic St. Mary’s, where nobody goes, ‘Cause what grickle grass is, nobody quite knows But they’re very certain its bad for you. Well, deep in the grickle grass, toxic and sour, The St. [...]
April 8, 201312:00 pm
The Costs of Minimum Wage
There is a concern that forcing wages up through a minimum wage increase will cause businesses to uproot and take their jobs to other countries. This concern is fairly easily answered through the use of a border tax adjustment. When a nation passes legislation that makes certain goods more expensive to produce domestically, usually in [...]
April 8, 201312:00 pm
Ask Miss Meghan: Recovering from Love
By Meghan Root, Resident Sexpert
Dear Miss Meghan, My girlfriend ended our relationship after 3 years a few months ago. I am ready to move on, but am not sure what the next steps are. Help. -Recoveringfromlove Dear Recovering, I read somewhere that it takes half the time you were in a relationship to get over said relationship. [...]
April 8, 201312:00 pm
Humor: How to Bake Cookies in a Dorm
By Delia Titzell, Staff Writer
I’ve been feeling for a while that it’s about time I write an article with more substance than substances (ha, substances. Good one, Delia. You’ve already earned yourself a reward pizza). My previous pieces for The Pointless have so far followed a distinct theme: that theme being the classic, girl meets binge, girl loses mind, [...]
April 8, 201312:00 pm
A Student’s Quest for Small Mammals on Campus
A couple of weeks ago, I was extremely bored on a Saturday night. I had been mulling over the idea for a while of proposing to change the school’s policy on pets to include small mammals, but I had been too busy and/or lazy to actually do anything about it. That night, I walked around [...]
March 27, 20135:31 pm
Senior Calls to End Styrofoam on Campus
It’s white. It’s nasty. It’s non-crushable. And we know it all too well. I am referring, of course, to Styrofoam. Students at St. Mary’s are all too familiar with the egregious sight of 268 boxes piling up on Campus Center patio on any given day. Because as it turns out, that’s how many boxes we [...]
March 26, 201311:33 am
Meatless Mondays: Environmental Benefits Explained
By Staff
By Sophomore Nick Smith As we all know, the school is currently undergoing a ten-week Meatless Mondays trial period. While the lack of meat is immediately apparent, the environmental benefits are not as visible. One of the biggest complaints on the SGA feedback form was that there had been no scientific analysis of the environmental [...]
March 26, 201311:21 am
The Risks of The Cyrus Levy
By Jacob Taylor The Republic of Cyprus has become the latest nation to suffer a debt crisis. In the simplest sense, Cypriot banks have incurred so much debt that creditors have become convinced that they will be unable to pay off any additional loans. Since the banks depend on loans to pay the interest on [...]
