With a potential 5.8 percent tuition increase looming, The Cynic would like some more information.  Specifically, where does our money go?   We assume it goes to professors' salaries, building...

On Feb. 5, electro-rockers LCD Soundsystem announced that they were calling it quits for good, following a final performance at Madison Square Garden in their hometown of New York City. Never heard of...

Lately, almost everyone on the global political scene has had his or her own take on the political riots that have erupted in other Middle Eastern countries after the fall of Egypt's totalitarian regime. According...

Remember those days when the United States would leap eagerly toward any chance to defend democracy and gain allies?             Our dear country...

The slew of reasons why Valentine's Day is a nauseating holiday is as endless as the line of the self-pitying masses moaning that they are alone. Aside from these sorry singletons wasting everyone's time...

It is that time of year again. A quarter of your two-hundred person lecture are out sick and half of those remaining compose a wheezing symphony of sniffles and coughs.   The Cynic staff has been...

So, I have a question. When, exactly, did we declare war on China? Within the past few weeks it seems like the problem with our economy has changed from "it's not good" to "it's not going to beat China." President...

So, I'm at City Market last week, loading up on Cheez-Its and Coke. I run into a girl from one of my classes; she's picking up some brews. We're in line, making small talk. She hands her ID to the clerk,...

Well, Valentine's Day is nearly upon us again and, as a writer for a paper whose title attests to a certain sense of pride in its cynicism, I come to ye readers once more to poo-poo on another holiday....

There is Alianza Latina, the Asian American Student Union, the Black Student Union, Free 2 Be, Hillel, the Muslim Student association and even a white student support group that had a brief stint, but...

With the Middle Eastern world tearing itself apart, Mexico mired in a worsening conflict with organized crime and Mother Nature apparently attempting to bury the East Coast under heaping piles of snow,...

After theterrorist attacks in Moscow's largest airport, not even terrorism experts really have a clue as to who carried out these attacks, or why they occurred. Naturally, as is usually the case when...