There is something about the character of Elaine in “Seinfeld” that stands out from the rest of the ensemble.

Kramer is the obvious favorite. He has all the bombastic breakdowns, the physical comedy out of nowhere. George brings the Woody Allen-esque neurosis, that Larry David conversational humor. Jerry is the ...

Ever since humans first felt the need to document facts and ideas, we have had a need for storing those documents in such a way that they could be accessible and attainable for others — after all, what good is an idea if you don’t share it? But the difficulties ...

We live in a world that we constantly try to simplify.

We try to find a way to get whatever needs to be accomplished done in the quickest way possible, which leads us to cut corners in nearly every aspect of life. We look for shortcuts when we travel, work ...

The American political system today is a joke. Bipartisanism hardly exists, extremism reigns supreme, barely anything gets done, and there are very few politicians on the national scale who are actually trying to look out for the American people.

Have we always been this way? Of course our political system ...

Something smells like sunscreen.

I’m in the library, on the second floor near the Mary E. Greer Room. It’s 4 in the morning and something smells like sunscreen.

When you’re not even a third of the way through what amounts to about 20 pages of writing assignments ...

To our seniors, I would first like to extend congratulations. I hope you achieve what you set out to accomplish. Never let your ambition err on the side of caution.

As for the rest of us, the close of summer will bring another year at UT. Not to get too ...

You might not read this column.
    
You might not even read this newspaper — but you picked it up. And when you did, you turned directly to this page, flipped it over, folded it and settled down in class to do the Sudoku for the next 50 minutes. The Sudoku and ...

This year, the unofficial holiday known as 4/20 fell on a Friday. For users of marijuana, “420” symbolizes cannabis in numeric form. For these same people, the celebration of this holiday includes — you guessed it — mass amounts of weed smoking.
    
There have long been certain companies or activity-planners who ...

In a television landscape that has veered overwhelmingly in the direction of genre and workplace shows, HBO’s new coming-of-age comedy “Girls” is a breath of fresh air.
    
Writer-director-star Lena Dunham’s new series, which premiered on Sunday, follows women in their early 20s as they navigate through the urban ...

The end of the semester is upon us, and with it all of the complaints that college students make — that teachers are assigning too much work, that the weather is bad, that finals are too stressful. We bemoan the fact that we might have to forego a weekend of doing ...

For the past two weeks, I’ve been trying to better understand what scares me in the world. I’ve discussed my own personal fear about not making an impact, and also my fear of the sense of apathy that permeates our own society.

At first I felt like these ...

I sit in the emergency room of East Tennessee Children’s Hospital for four hours one afternoon a week and play with the kids who are waiting to be seen. There my fellow volunteers and I have seen a lot of really bizarre things and met some really interesting people ...