It’s Christmastime again. I know what you’re thinking -- we go through the same rituals every year. Thanksgiving ends, and everyone readies themselves for the coming holiday. My family bought our tree just days after we had consumed our turkey. But how can buying a Christmas tree put me into the...

What ever happened to a good old “Merry Christmas?” To the times when our country was united “under God,” rather than trying to get rid of Him? Increasingly more in our society, the term “Merry Christmas” is being replaced with the barren phrase “Happy Holidays.” For example, in...

The last several Thanksgivings I survived have been “experiences.” Not necessarily in the same way that action movies are “the thrill-ride adrenaline-soaked experience of the summer.” They’re more like those internships where you don’t get paid but they are a “good experience for your resume.” Over...

Strike, Day 5: Michael Farr, Hair Cuts, and Whitney: A Strike in Review 11/22/07 6:38 p.m. Attention, I have an announcement to make; the strike is officially over. Actually it’s been over since Tuesday, although I’m afraid that this was too late for many of the writers who were joining...

There was an incident last week at Azusa Pacific. Late Tuesday night, Nov. 5, a car full of Biolans pulled on to APU’s campus. They reached Smith Hall, rolled down a window and proceeded to yell obscenities at passing Azusa students. A student in passing was particularly mad at the situation and decided...

Censorship. It is a 10-letter word that I have been thinking about a lot lately. I recently went through a personal experience of censorship. I wrote a film review and just before it was printed it was pulled because of the content of the film. I do not blame The Chimes or any one person on staff, because...

Water brands were a mark of social class. Over the last six months I’ve heard several female conversations about what kind of bottled water is the best. For those of you who didn’t know, the taste, origin, bottle shape, social image and price are all in the complicated equation of what makes good...