Glass Half Full: Creating the destruction of Harrisonburg
By Traci Cox, senior writer

Different places make you feel different things. Some environments evoke opportunity and insight while others tend to veer toward a dysfunctional and immorlist attitude. I’ve just recently come to realize the almighty effects that the urban environment has on my psyche, work ethic and mood. One obtrusive angle or paint color on a building and I’m ready to impale someone with an I-beam. More...

Because I Said So: Hatred for trade
By Kathryn Manning, staff writer

Few things are more marketable than public humiliation. Especially in a country as celebrity-obsessed as the United States, any hand caught in the cookie jar earns celebrities hours of embarrassing coverage, and, even more, makes a hefty profit for the media. But our fixation on “gotcha!” moments is detracting from true problems that members of our society—both the famous and the average—are struggling with. More...

Breeze Perspectives: Celebrating the insignificant
By Peter Weems, contributing writer

Despite what their respective Web site “shrines” want us believe, Matthew Shepard and Rachel Scott are not heroes. Despite what countless bumper stickers, bracelets and T-shirts would like us to think, victims of cancer, sexual assault, gang violence and so on are not heroes either. We celebrate these people for basically doing nothing. More...

Battle of the Sexes: Are older significant others more desirable?
By Aaron Stewart, senior writer & Kathleen Stachan, contributing writer

Why do men date older women? The answer is simple, but first we have to eliminate the one-night stands and weekend romps, because that isn’t dating by anyone’s book. More often than not, those get togethers are based on physical attraction or alcohol-addled judgment. Men who date older women are looking for something more and someone who makes them better; a constant challenge in the best way. Older women tend to be more secure with themselves, know what they want and are willing to wait for it. Mature guys are looking for these women. We want women who force us to push ourselves, who make us want to be more, not by making us feel like less, but by encouraging our strengths. More...

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