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Sophomore Sally Sawyer sits in her dorm finishing her homework and waiting for the stroke of midnight and the first minutes of her twenty-first year. It is the coming of age college students yearn for and comes with one rarely thought-of side effect: loss of insurance. If Sally were to get hurt she would have ...

The end of the semester means finals and no sleep because of cramming the night before or cramming the hour or five minutes before the actual final. Instead of cramming this semester try something new; actually prepare for the finals. One of the first rules of test taking is finding out what’s going to be on the final. All the teachers at Cowley want their students to be successful and will usually have a study packet available before the test[...] Read the rest of this entry »

Choosing which college to go to can be a hard decision. Some people go to Cowley just so that they can get their associates degree, but most people use it as a stepping-stone to a four-year university. Going to Cowley has some obvious advantages. The biggest being the small price. One also gets other things such ...

Often unappetizing but mostly just downright bland food being served in the cafeteria has been the subject of many complaints. As far as I am concerned, a cafeteria meal is an area in which Cowley students lose value in their tuition. Cowley students have the opportunity of an inexpensive quality education; but with a trade-off ...

In one of his more famous stand-up routines, comedian, Lewis Black joked, “the difference between Republicans and Democrats is Republicans suck and Democrats blow.” This seems to be the attitude of most Americans. Most Americans seem to think the government is broken but we don’t always agree on why and few agree on how to fix ...

Metroid has been a big Nintendo franchise since the times of the Super Nintendo. Sure, it has never been as big as Nintendo games like Mario and the Legend of Zelda, but it has still been a strong series. First, we had the original 2-D Metroid games, and then it moved to the 3-D Metroid Prime ...

The town of Chester’s Mill, Maine, is just a quiet little place like any other New England berg. The mostly agricultural community boasts a population of about two-thousand residents when it is plunged into chaos. An unexplained barrier prevents anything from getting in or out of town. When a plane crashes into the invisible barrier, ...

Cowley students have struggled with a policy by which security allows after-hours access to specific rooms for students to work on aspects of their curriculum involving art, music and newspaper production. Out of necessity, students involved in these academic departments require access to pending projects, computers with specific software, musical instruments, atmospheric rehearsals and accommodating ...