Ben Jipson

15 Dec 2006

Final days in RF require big plans

Cue the groans — here comes another tearjerker from a graduate-to-be.

08 Dec 2006

Cereal is essential ingredient for dating

Finding a worthy partner is always a difficult task. Establishing some source of commonality with another person can seem next to impossible, but Web sites like eHarmony.com have started to make the laborious task easier.

01 Dec 2006

Nap time equals quality time for college students

Out of all the great bits of wisdom from the past, though, none supersede the importance of nap time.

17 Nov 2006

Hunters ready for buck season

Many brave and still semi-intoxicated souls are going to stumble out of bed before daybreak this Saturday morning into the chilly autumn air hoping to bag the big one.

10 Nov 2006

Borat could teach global lesson

Two things happened on Tuesday, and I thought they wouldn't have any connection to each other: I voted and I saw the movie “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Aside from the prideful, patriotic feeling I got from affixing the “I Voted” sticker to my chest, voting wasn’t very entertaining or amusing.

03 Nov 2006

Halloween exposes RF’s inner children

Until this year I spent the last several Halloween weekends in Madison bingeing on Milwaukee’s Best and Qdoba burritos, sleeping in urine-scented elevators and flushing pepper spray from my eyes.

27 Oct 2006

Political ads go negative this year

There was a time not long ago when political advertisements in the news media supported candidates based on the positive aspects of their political agendas, but it seems those ads have been tossed aside in recent years. Now, the only political ads running are negative ones that only seem to annoy prospective voters.

20 Oct 2006

Support UW-RF student athletes

There is no good reason for such a horrible turnout -- the weather couldn’t have been better, and the game was at an accommodating 2 p.m. on a Saturday.

13 Oct 2006

Exercise makes better students

I had a humbling experience a few weeks ago in PE 108. Members of the class were told to engage in 10 minutes of aerobic exercise.

06 Oct 2006

Gender separations cause more problems

Geoffrey Scheurman put it nicely in last week's Student Voice: "Nobody wants to talk about how correcting one error has created the seeds of the next one." And that is precisely what happened.