By Bonnie Bu My boyfriend, the great Keith Footprint, really wants the best for our world. He truly does. He volunteers to pick up waste in the waterways on Wednesdays. He even publicly denounces high-wealth individuals with substantial investments in oil. He’s taught me to curse those power-hungry, shale-loving tyrants...
By Charles Dorkins Once upon a time —of all the good days in the year, on Christmas Eve— Daniel Diermeier sat busy in his home office, drawing up schemes to ensure Vanderbilt University became #1 in the world, and he, its #1 chancellor. His most recent gambit – slowly replacing...
By Nick Gebo and Sam Sliman It’s that time of year again. As the season of course evaluations rolls around, we, as seasoned experts in the art of academic critique, have once again been asked by the university to embark on the daunting yet supremely important task of evaluating our...
By Sue Donnem If you’re a big sports person, such as myself, then you surely remember Manute Bol clogging up the paint back in the day. God, the 80s…what a time to be alive! Those pesky guards always tried to drive on Manute, but he would send their shot into...
By Nick Gebo NASHVILLE, TN – A crowd of stunned monks gathered around Alumni Lawn late Thursday evening as Zach Pro, a Vanderbilt junior who reportedly started practicing Buddhism just two weeks ago, appeared to reach a state of enlightenment in record time. “I have never seen anything remotely comparable....
