Over my four years at JMU, occasionally I’ve seen some variations of the recurring AOL Instant Messenger away message — “This is the only time in our lives where we will have 15,000 co-eds within a one-mile radius. If those odds aren’t great for hooking up, I don’t know what is.”

Reel Reflections

The second volume to Quentin Tarantino’s homage-epic, “Vol. 2” begins like its predecessor — a nameless, blood-splattered bride (Uma Thurman, “Paycheck”) is shot in the head by the eponymous Bill.

Techtalk

Imagine walking into a clothing store where one’s size measurements exist on the store’s computer. Imagine one’s personal buying habits and preferences at the disposal of a clerk with a personal data assistant. Now, imagine that these possibilities do exist.

As college career comes to close, English major shares wisdom, nostalgia with fellow students, majors

The way I see this week’s column ending up is like this — five or 10 years from now, some disillusioned young scholar of literature in the midst of a tortuous dark night will be wandering around campus or sifting through a curbside pile of garbage with a well-worn sneaker when he or she will come across this column.