Sun Arts Editor and columnist Ruby Perlmutter '13 argues that foreign language courses could be improved by becomign less general and more fun.

As is customary for many college dormitories, walk into my suite in Bethe and you will find tacky nameplates adorning each door.

The old adage “knowledge is power” expresses an axiomatic truth. But knowledge is much more than power — it is health, security, wealth, amusement and many more things. Learning, the process by which we obtain knowledge, has its own intrinsic value that we often overlook because we favor the more concrete benefits associated with knowledge.

If the clothes make the man, consider me a pinup for fits and starts. I spent two years in Dress Whites as a Midshipman at the US Naval Academy. While there, a lot of my time was devoted to eating meals at attention and convincing girls in town that they had “lost that loving feeling.” Despite the toll it would take on my bizarre social agenda, I decided to take off the uniform for the final time in 2006.