Author Archive for Ariana Santoro
Old Superstitious Beliefs
Sofia Panuelos | Staff Photographer—Old superstition has it that it's bad luck to open umbrellas indoors!
I’m a sucker for wishing wells and fountains. Anything I can throw a coin into for the potential wish come true, really. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to wish for something twice. The first coin flew gently down, [...]
A Summer of Nuclear Research ConCERN
Congrats, fellow Anteaters! You have (almost) made it through spring quarter. Maybe for your first time, maybe for your last. For at least one soon-to-be second year, this summer means the opportunity of a lifetime.
This July, physics major Matthew Kelly will join professor Whiteson, a particle physicist at UCI, near Geneva on the Swiss side [...]
More Bang for Your Books
As fundamental to the college experience as top ramen and weekly all-nighters, course book buyback is an entity both loved and despised by students everywhere. We end the quarter happily with a few bucks to pad our pockets but continue to complain since the amount we receive in no way equals that which we actually [...]
Dodgeball Breaking Records
Imagine if you will, thousands of people facing off across a field of green, the members of each side clad in a uniform colored to represent their party, weapons placed between them. At the sound of a mighty call, the two sides will rush toward the other in hopes of being the last standing.
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Questioning Open Relationships: A Look At Alternate Forms Of Dating
Spring is upon us and it will soon officially become mating season. For those still single among the coupled lovebirds, it is increasingly apparent that monogamy tends to limit the pool of availability. Unfortunately, the most common solution to this problem is what we call an open relationship, or rather forming spiritual, emotional or physical [...]
