GO GREEK! Deep, strong (and numerous) friendships reason enough to pledge
Imagine a group of people a lot like you. Chances are, you probably hang out with a group of people like that already. Let’s call them "your friends." Now imagine that your friends decided to make funny T-shirts to acknowledge the bond between you all. You already hang out all the time, so the T-shirt…
How to get a job in San Antonio after graduation
Keep your eyes on the prize. College students have long been encouraged to focus on the end goal of employment while studying. Don’t get a degree in philosophy. Work an internship. Network. Getting a good job in San Antonio, a large city with a competitive labor pool, requires all of the above. In short: post-grad…
Required reading: A quick education on getting an education
How to be a Person: The Stranger’s Guide to College, Sex, Intoxicants, Tacos and Life Itself by Lindy West, Dan Savage, Christopher Frizzelle, Bethany Jean Clement and the Staff of The Stranger Sasquatch, $16.95, 250 pp. The all-purpose guide to your formative years, or, should you come to this later, reformative years. With Dan "Savage"…
Frenemy foods acts like your friend, but stabs you in the back — "healthy choices" that aren't
Feeding yourself like a grownup turns out to be harder than you thought. Without your parents’ lovingly presented, nutritionally balanced meals magically appearing on the table each night, you’re at the mercy of the dining hall and its unlimited soft-serve machine, 23 different kinds of sugary cereal, and nightly mac & cheese. But while everyone…
Campus blotter
In an effort to inform college students and their families about campus safety, all institutions of higher learning are required to disclose to the U.S. Department of Education crime statistics for their campuses. Here are the totals from 2001 to 2010, the last year for which data is available. These are instances of reported crime…
Scholastic breakdown: A totally unscientific but utterly believable survey of San Antonio's centers of higher learnin'
Let’s forget about the alphabet soup of college life — all those GPA’s and GRE’s and ACT’s — and get down to what really matters: how you, the student, feels on campus, the hottie ratios at your parties, that unmistakable sense that the tweed jackets actually give a flip about you. We sent out our…
Top nine reasons to stay in-state for school
Out-of-state tuition costs Let’s face it, going to college means accepting the fact that for the next four to eight years you’re probably going to be in the hole money-wise. The question is how deep: close enough to the top where you can pull yourself out with a little maneuvering, or so far down that…
The archetypal students, and how to handle them
You asked the appropriate questions and penciled in the right bubbles, and you survived high school. Your intensely unique identity — and you are sure it’s intensely unique — has been incubating within, saving its reveal for the gloriously progressive environment of college. No more labels, no more cutthroat social branding, no more clique-hopping to…
For truly stress-free orgasms: use protection
If college becomes an opportunity to lower your standards for some cheap hookups, we can’t say we blame you. Heck, the academic stress has to be dealt with somehow, right? However, you may want to consider: Many of those hotties handing out orgasms at house parties aren’t using protection, which could lead to the worst…
There's money available for college, but file early, know your deadlines, and watch that email
The biggest barrier keeping students from receiving financial aid for school is a “misconception that there aren’t enough dollars available for them,” according to Jennifer Whitcomb of Generation TX, an nonprofit organization striving to help students get financial aid for college. Not only is the money there, but the sooner students apply, “the more they…
NO GREEK! The limiting factor of Greek life: power drinking
It’s 8 a.m. following my first all-out, animal-housin’ party since joining Trinity University’s Greek life and I’m talking to another unfortunate soul who slept on the grimy, piss-and-beer smellin’ couches littered around the house. Only after I stop talking do I realize how viscously drunk I am — so much so that I can’t remember…
HOPE Hall: Trinity student's vision spawns a volunteer service dorm
Trinity University is launching an effort to combine classroom learning, helping the homeless, and campus residential life. Katie Ogawa, the student who organized HOPE Hall, which starts this school year, said a group of about 30 students from different majors will live together in the same residence hall and volunteer together at partnering organizations focused…
Rape Crisis benefit turns 'dangerously cute' women into their own strongest allies
"You’ll leave today with bruises, scratches, nauseated…" The notice made me second-guess my warm and fuzzy feelings of women’s empowerment at a recent self-defense seminar at STW Krav Maga. I literally wanted to run for the door. Pete Hardy, chief instructor for Krav Maga South Central Region with 12 years of combat experience, knows he…
Microwave mastery
When the dining hall is closed, you’re strapped for cash, and your auto-owning friend is holed up in the library, the omnipresent dorm-room microwave will be there to help you out of a culinary jam. And I’m not just talking popcorn, frozen dinners, and ramen — there’s a whole menu of microwave eats that cover…
