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Islam Awareness Week promotes balance, moderation
Some interesting things you probably didn’t know about Islam.
TOP EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ON STUDY TIPS FOR FINALS
Want to study smarter during finals week? TOP Editor-in-chief Charles Scott on some useful study tips for beating those exams!
A NEW WAY TO DISCOVER YOUR LIFE’S PASSION
Don’t know what direction to go in life? Perhaps a trip in the Green RV can help…
FINDING A JOB: EXAMINE YOUR ONLINE PRESENCE
Last Thursday SMU students learned that they might want to examine their online presence before beginning their job search, particularly on popular networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. The “Social Media & Your Job Search” PowerPoint presentation event was given in Portico E on the upper level of Hughes-Trigg by Guy Davis, Assistant [...]
THE THRILLING POTENTIAL OF SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY
All of us are aware of the five basic senses: seeing, feeling, smelling, tasting and hearing. But there is also another sense called the sixth sense. Simply put, the sixth sense is a connection to something greater than what the physical senses are able to perceive (think the movie, The Sixth Sense). Traditionally this ‘greater [...]
Prescribed to pot? Say goodbye to Second Amendment Rights
Continually, the federal government, most notably under the Obama administration, is having trouble maintaining the president’s pre-election promises to fix the problem with medical marijuana. The most recent evidence of this came on September 21 when The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) released a memorandum to all gun dealers in the United States. [...]
Reconsider the college premium
I was stumbling through The Daily Beast the other day when a headline caught my eye: “We Overvalue College”; written by an anonymous ‘Professor X’. From what I could gather, Professor X is an English professor. For the past 10 years he’s been teaching composition and literature at both a community college and a small [...]
More Obama Drama
Last Tuesday evening a couple friends and I were watching Obama’s latest State of the Union. Sometime during the speech one of my buddy’s, a staunch conservative, piped up with a comment regarding the shade of Obama’s gray hair while in front of cameras, as opposed to his hair shade of gray while off camera. [...]
Helpful Tips For Finals From TOP Editor-in-Chief
Have you ever come across a stress-free student on our campus? Perhaps, but my best bet is that you haven’t. And no, you can’t count the freshman who some how manage to screw up either their first or second semester, announce to the world “fuck it”, and never end up making it to class much [...]
New Staff Positions Available @ TOP
After roughly a year of existence, TOP is still in its infancy–in a good way. We’ve had many great writers on our staff over these past months. Unfortunately, though, we’ve had to see some of them go. With the redesign/facelift of our website, and a print version of TOP quickly approaching, our staff decided we [...]
Realization
Midterms suck, and I know you agree. I’ll admit it’s rare for me to say I’m stressed out, and many of you that know me personally probably agree. I’m typically on top of my shit. But considering my mental state about 36 hours ago, I give in. It was stressful. Some of you approached me [...]
Mystery photo of the week
