Last Friday Alpha Epsilon Pi, Tau Mu Chapter held their third annual Hot Dog Eating Contest in Paws. Adam Marcus and Brandon Sacks, general members of the fraternity, were in charge of putting together the event. The first guy to eat 10 hot dogs with buns won, and for the girls, the first to eat six won. Girls could enter as a team of two, each eating three hot dogs with buns. The hot dogs [...]

This is my last column. It is that time when I have to summarize how this experience has changed my outlook on life, but I am not ready. I have one more week in Aix-en-Provence to begrudgingly complete finals and finish papers. I will spend one day in Geneva, Switzerland before heading to Chamonix to hike for a week in the French Alps. Then I get on one last plane and come home to America. [...]

I don’t know what I was thinking when I bought Oliver Pötzsch’s book “The Hangman’s Daughter.” First of all, it’s translated from German, which always makes me wary of stilted writing. Second of all, it’s a historical novel, set in 1659, which usually isn’t my type of read. I prefer the escapism of urban fantasy, compared to gruesomely accurate tales. So, I’ll admit, I’m a little surprised that I even got through the book. I’m [...]

Sheen Content Without Custody In what has to be one of the strangest divorced couples news stories, Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife Denise Richards has been granted temporary custody of his twin boys after they were removed from their mother, Brooke Mueller’s, home. This isn’t the first time Richards has taken the twins under her wing. In December 2012, the boys stayed with Richards when Mueller went to rehab. Sheen is fully on board with the new situation because [...]

Since this is my final column of the school year, I wanted to take this time to do some reflecting. Writing a music column is much like cooking dinner for a large family: there are going to be people who enjoy what you dish out and others are going to turn their noses up and disgust and order Chinese food instead. I have received both of these responses, especially early on when I was writing [...]

With summer only a few short weeks away, we’re all dreaming of how we’ll spend those couple of months off school. Parties, sleep and vacations are a given, but what about a summer romance? Look to the stars and you can learn what kind of summer fling is likely for your sign. Aries will find a summer romance right away, and will probably end it just as quickly. The ram may find themselves going through [...]

At Towson, there are about 16,031 commuter students, about 73.1 percent of Towson’s total enrollment. But sophomore Hannah Babineau commutes a little further than most. Every other weekend the sports management major leaves Towson to fly home to Portland, Maine for her internship. Babineau is an intern for the Portland Sea Dogs, a AA affiliate of the Boston Red Sox. Every other Thursday after a week of classes she takes a taxi to BWI to [...]

This week, sorority Alpha Omicron Pi, Theta Beta chapter, exerted a strong presence in the Towson community. This past Friday, May 3, Alpha Omicron Pi had their annual “Pi Guy” event on Burdick Field. Everyone was welcome to come out raise money for the sorority’s philanthropy, Arthritis Research. The event had baked goods you could purchase and games you could play. But the main point was to pie your friends. The new “Pi Guy” was [...]

When I was in eighth grade, I came home one night from roller with my friends, which was the equivalent of going to the bars when you’re 12. I felt like I had been out all night, but in reality, I’d gotten back around 10 p.m. My dad was watching Turner Classic Movies and “Monkey Business” was coming on. He asked if I wanted to watch it, and I said sure. Maybe it was because [...]

Around 65 million people live in La France. Although France is smaller than Texas, it has all the demographic and cultural complexities of the United States. I have only been here a few months and through classes, conversations with my host and her friends and traveling to different regions myself, I have witnessed the various ways the French see each other. Just as in the United States, there is a clear distinction between the North [...]