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This past summer, the final phase of the Widener renovation project was completed. But visible construction still remains, blocking the Mass. Ave. gate to the library...
...walk through a gate, then into the building. The room seems a bit too lived-in to be a hotel room. Something might be wrong, I think—but then the pension really is very budget. When is my continental breakfast? And when should I pay, tonight or tomorrow...
...through the semester. The stress, the strain, the lack of sex—it all creates a strange cycle of behavior that starts every morning and ends late into the night. The end result is exhaustion and an inability to get out of bed. Perhaps the inscription above the Gate of Hell in Dante’s Inferno sums it up best: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” As a public service announcement, I write to you to illustrate a typical morning of an upperclassman. By taking note, you can prepare...
...HALF AN HOUR AT ABOUT 2 P.M. LAST Friday, the main attraction at Six Flags New Jersey was not the Nitro, the "tallest and fastest roller coaster in the East," or the Superman Ultimate Flight ride. Within sight of the front gate, not far from the faux Revolutionary battlements of Fort Independence, a succession of blue tarps had been stretched. Prostrated on them, facing Mecca (and, unintentionally, the Cannonball Lemonade Stand) were hundreds of men, heads to the ground in sajda, Islamic prayer's gesture of submission to Allah. As hundreds more entered the park and took note, many...
Consequently, the park was sniffed for bombs, "Muslims Only" was struck from the website, and security at the gate was beefed up. None of that hampered the hybrid entertainment unfolding within. Boardwalk barkers persevered ("Arright, at the sound of the buzzer, you want to press both buttons on the gun") but competed with a bazaar offering stylish Islamic headwear and Koranic commentaries. Standard food concessions were shuttered in favor of ritually correct halal vendors like Shalimar and Kabob King. There was no opposite-sex canoodling, and halter tops and shorts were replaced by a vast array of hijab head scarves...