Sarah Schrupp/Undeclared

 It’s that time of year again. Future prospective UWEC students from all over the world…well Minnesota and Wisconsin, are coming to Eau Claire for campus tours. (In fact, as I sit in the library typing this, a group of angsty, skinny-jeaned teenagers are being led through the library to check out our excellent research sources and multitude of leather bound books.) But little do they know, Eau Claire administrators have a whole new bag of tricks this year.

Steven VanDeLaarschot

Undergraduate/Political Science

It is amazing sometimes when you consider what little things grab people's attention. As President Obama visited Japan he met with the Japanese Emperor Akihito and bowed to the emperor like any other person would when meeting the emperor. I, despite being the political junkie that I am, would never have heard about this if not for the massive outcry that came from many conservatives when they heard that President Obama bowed to an emperor.

Undergraduate/Political Science and Print Journalism

Alright, guys. I’m on hour five of staring at my computer screen (hooray paper writing season in the PoliSci department!), but I feel like I’m somewhat prepared for the rundown of the ten best metal albums of 2009. If this is incoherent, I apologize. But then again, no one reads this anyway.

Actually, looking at the list I have in front of me, it’s absolutely impossible to cut this list down to ten. I have finished on twelve and will be presenting that. Suck it, what I said in the past.

Honorable Mentions

 Johnny Konakuppakatil Gopinathan Balakrishnan Truant II

 Undergraduate/ Criminal Justice

Kyle Butz

Undergraduate/Undeclared