» Andrew Corcostegui

I WAS HOPING THAT someone in Britney Spears’ camp might have sent her a copy of my open-letter article addressed to her last semester.

A PECULIAR THING HAPPENED last Monday night that I still haven’t quite recovered from.

I walked into my friend’s living room to encounter four grown, educated adults screaming at the television set, booing and hissing at a bevy of beautiful and stupidly banal characters who seemed to do nothing more than eat out and talk badly about one another for the show’s thirty-minute run.

A STARTLING REALIZATION HIT me when I powered up my computer to begin writing this week’s column.
This is my last article of the semester. More pointedly than that, this is my last article of my undergraduate career.
I would be lying if I said I hadn’t been aware of the narrow stretch of time between my [...]

I HATE TO BEAT a dead horse, but this Don Imus business has been on my mind for a few days.
Foremost, I think he’s a dumb-dumb for saying what he did. In fact, I feel it was outright offensive, and the Rutgers women’s basketball team has every right to be angry. Not only is he [...]

I HAVE A SECRET.
I love the designated smoking sections on campus.
It isn’t even about being a smoker for me. Mostly, I just enjoy the sense of security these tiny pockets on campus offer.
Before I go on, I recognize the risks of second-hand smoke. This article is not about my own naiveté.
I am not endorsing smoking. [...]

WITH SO FEW weeks left until the end of my undergraduate career, I was hoping to coast by on autopilot for the remainder of the semester, avoiding any and all dirty imbroglios that might come my way.
But as luck (and my big mouth) would have it, the case is entirely different. With little more than [...]

A FUNNY THING happened last week: I found myself inside the meeting room of one our campus’s sororities.
It was surreal insofar as my experience was remarkably enlightening, and I came to the startling conclusion that my perceptions of what it means to be a sorority sister were completely incorrect.
As a member of the MTV generation, [...]