Volume 27, Issue 14, November 11, 2004

Features

Photo by Danny Holland The Metropolitan
Freshman Eric Kelly, (left) a Metro student, teamed up with sophomore Brian Do to play against James Salazar, a CCD student, and Thair Wahdan, (right) in a small “Halo 2” Tournament held on the second fl oor in the Tivoli Nov. 9. “Halo 2” is hyped to be one of the best fi rst-person shooters ever made. According to industry projections, with over 1.5 million copies pre-ordered before its Nov. 9 release, it will bring in more money than the opening day of a blockbuster movie.

Welcome to College! Welcome to Debt!

Life is expensive, and a good life can be down right pricey.

The process starts early. Childhood. The suburban child's needs are adequately provided for. Shelter in a nice home, three square meals a day and parents who at least love the child enough to prevent them from physical harm. Wants are given on top of the needs. Toys accumulate, are played with and eventually discarded. Instant gratification becomes learned and ingrained into behavior. Our parents became the bank or the credit card. Behaving or promising to behave in certain ways at some future time, the child begs, persuades and threatens with the result of the parents caving in to their demands. more >>

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