Who’s down with OPH? Original Pancake House serves the good stuff.

By Zach Schwartz / May 5, 2006

When I was a first year, some friends and I sat at the Point all night to watch the sunrise. Someone had told us that at the moment the sun rose over the lake, it was very bright green, which turned out to be true—though less than worth staying up all night for. After the...

Fiery Furnaces serve strange Tea

By Zach Schwartz / April 21, 2006

Brother-sister bands tend to be sort of weird. Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger are far from an exception to that rule. In fact, the Fiery Furnaces may be the poster children for it, especially considering the way they’re said to have fought as kids. Their most recent album, Bitter Tea, is exactly as odd and unpredictable...

Sony, why are you so stupid? Get with the technological times.

By Zach Schwartz / February 6, 2006

Sony has revolutionized the consumer electronics industry time and time again. Examples abound, especially in the realm of portable electronics: the cheap transistor radio, the Walkman, and the Discman all come to mind. But Sony seems to be conspicuously absent as a real force in the incredibly lucrative MP3 player business. On reputation alone, they...

Panelists probe possible problems with e-voting

By Zach Schwartz / May 7, 2004

A panel discussion titled “The Electronic Vote: When technology and democracy intersect, is democracy at risk?” was held on Tuesday, revealing to the audience the potential problems of electronic voting. Adam Stubblefield, a doctoral candidate at the Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute, spoke on the technical problems of the electronic voting systems, focusing mainly...

Drilling arouses Pierce Hall residents from their slumber

By Zach Schwartz / April 6, 2004

The sounds of construction at Pierce Hall woke up second-year in the College Ana Rocca at about 8 a.m. on October 15. Used to the noise by now, she put a pillow over her head and tried to go back to sleep. As she attempted to return to slumber, she noticed small bits of plaster...

Debate team wins competition

By Zach Schwartz / March 12, 2004

The parliamentary debate team won last weekend’s tournament at Stanford University, with Jake Steinberg and Thane Rehn taking first place, and Greg Cheyne and Tim Fletcher winning top novice team. “The team has not done this well in living memory,” said debate team member Ian Kemp, adding that the team may have done this well...

Debate team wins competition

By Zach Schwartz / March 12, 2004

The parliamentary debate team won last weekend’s tournament at Stanford University, with Jake Steinberg and Thane Rehn taking first place, and Greg Cheyne and Tim Fletcher winning top novice team. “The team has not done this well in living memory,” said debate team member Ian Kemp, adding that the team may have done this well...