Written by Kelsey Maki
Megaphone Columnist
Food is capable of capturing emotion, memory and character.
Grilled cheese and hearty, smooth tomato soup recall memories of rainy days and warm sweaters, cucumber sandwiches taste of grassy, cloudless spring and cherry red Popsicles can not help but to conjure up a whiff of sunscreen and sticky heat.
The atmosphere of […]

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Written by Giulia Giuffre
Megaphone Staff Writer
This year, Family Days celebrates 100 years of the Megaphone. The events that comprise Family Days begin on Friday, Feb. 15 and continue till the afternoon of Sunday, Feb. 17.
Family Days has been a Southwestern tradition for at least the last 13 years. Prior to being called Family Days, the […]

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Written by Jessica Espinoza
Megaphone Staff Writer
As one of the fifteen or so students fortunate to attend Friday Night Live’s salsa dancing lessons, I can, with a completely straight face, describe it as an eye-opening experience. Salsa is a dance which takes its roots in Caribbean rhythms, especially those of Cuba and Puerto Rico. […]

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Written by Michael Morgan
Megaphone Staff Writer
Peter McWilliams, author of the book “Ain’t Nobody’s Business if you Do”, discovered he had both cancer and AIDS in 1996. He also was one of the many patients that experienced extreme nausea as a side effect to the medicines. Luckily, he lived in California where medical marijuana is legal. […]

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Written by Mariah Asipe
In July 1984, Congress passed a bill that required all states to implement a minimum drinking age of 21, or they would lose their federal highway funding as retribution. Needless to say, every state rapidly complied with this financial tribulation, even if it was entirely against what state lawmakers believed.
Ever since that […]

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Written by Caitlyn Buckley
I am an information junkie.
I have a strange desire to know everything that I can possibly know, preferably immediately. I watch news on the television, I read online news, and I read newspapers whenever I can come by them. My family makes fun of me, saying that one of the first […]

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Written by Alma Aguilar
Greenling is a local Austin company that delivers organic food to your home. They offer a variety of products from fruits and vegetables to meats and breads. Most of their products are grown locally and meet the USDA’s standards for organic products.
In the fall of 2006, Gail Roberson, Associate Director of […]

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Written by Brian Tidwell
On October 28, a Megaphone writer discovered that he could play guitar almost as well as Carlos Santana, that Bloc Party’s “Helicopter” is incredibly fun to play and that playing the epic “Knights of Cydonia” by Muse is as good of an arm workout as any trip to the Robertson Center.
As much […]

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Written by Regan Lemley
Does the name Nicole Scherzinger ring any bells? If her name doesn’t, her face will. She’s the lead singer of raunchy pop group The Pussycat Dolls, and she is in ownership of the ideal American female body. She’s skinny, she’s tall, and she’s still curvaceous. The pathetic part is […]

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