College is a hard adjustment for everybody, no matter how great it seems on social media. When you add a pandemic and decide to not arrive on campus until the second semester, now college seems like an isolating new environment with no easy way to make connections. I am a part of this small segment…
Concern must be raised about the University’s recent comments on the website Campus Reform regarding Professor Erik Loomis and his tweet about racism in AI software, particularly Assistant Director of Media Relations Dave Lavallee’s comment, according to the publication, that Loomis “does not have the right to make such unsubstantiated claims in the context of…
Good morning sweet chicklings. I hope you all had a good night’s rest and are taking on your day with gusto. Did you know that “chickling” can refer to a baby chick or chicken as well as a vetch or pea? A vetch, a widely distributed scrambling herbaceous plant of the pea family, is extensively…
Hello my zesty little ice blocks! How are you all doing? Are you gazing out your window in awe of the snowflakes falling on the earth’s crust? Are you too reminiscing of this past Monday morning, at approximately 8:03 a.m., when the sun was kissing the tree branches that were heavy with snow, illuminating each…
Good day to all of you glistening snowflakes who are gazing upon these words at this specific moment in time. I use the term snowflake in the most endearing way, not as whatever that insult is supposed to mean. I never understood how or why it was used in a degrading manner because who wouldn’t…
Well, this is going to be fun! Welcome to the first edition of the Good Five Cent Cigar of 2021 and, coincidentally, the first edition with me as editor-in-chief. This feels really special. I always imagined my Cigar firsts as editor-in-chief would look different. I’d be sitting at the head of our editorial table, surrounded…
Editor in Chief Theresa Brown, celebrates her accomplishments working for the Cigar. Photo by Nate Plusquellsic. Every time I pick up a new book to read, I can never stop myself from flipping all the way to the last page and reading it. Sometimes it completely spoils the whole book, but in most cases, it…
Greetings shimmering speckles of stardust. Are you feeling rejuvenated and ready to take on the last few weeks of school and finals after having a few days off? If so, congratulations! Please share how you do it. If you’re feeling like you will be perpetually burnt out by every Tuesday afternoon for the rest of…
Cigar Managing Editor Laura Weick, recalls her time working for the paper. Photo contributed by Laura Weick. To say this year has been “unexpected” is not only an understatement, but probably the most cliche thing someone can say in 2020. So I’m not going to ramble about how the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the Good…
Happy early day of thankfulness my darling cornucopias. I hope you all physically find a way to embody a goat’s horn overflowing with flowers, fruit and corn, while also metaphorically embodying the symbol. Personally, I am thankful for you all every day of the year but on Nov. 26 I will be telepathically sending you…