Life and Style

"I’m always thinking and thinking and have so much trouble settling down those thoughts and relaxing in general."
- Sarah Rich, sophomore at Stonehill College.

Large piles of books. Tall cups of coffee. An annoyed roommate tossing in the bed across the room. Sound familiar?

Intramural sports are as much a staple of college life as frat houses and sororities. Not unlike the Greek life, intramurals are always trying to find different and fun activities for students to join.

Sometimes I’d have the meat - if it looked alright."
-Jared Duke, a sophomore at University of Illinois, on his experiences in the dining halls.

Jared Duke was not about to put up with another year of Captain Crunch dinners.

Duke is a sophomore at the University of Illiniois. Last year, finding most of the dining hall food unappetizing, he was almost always stuck with a rather meager meal, such as pasta, or his default food of choice, cereal.

“Sometimes I’d have the meat - if it looked alright," Duke said.

Video games are frequently blamed for the sedentary lifestyle and high obesity rate of America’s youth, but Dance Dance Revolution or DDR, a videogame dancing competition allows players to get up and boogie without leaving the Playstation.

The game is a simple concept:
Dance steps are displayed onscreen as arrows that point either left, right, up or down. There is a three foot square pad on the floor hooked up in place of a controller and players step on the arrows on the pad that correspond to the arrows on the screen.