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Comfort albums and mindless listening

Happy midterm season. To celebrate, here’s a collection of my scattered reflections on what draws me to an album and to music in general.

Yeah, we’re writing about water mains

Off the Press is known for its journalistic prowess, so we would be remiss not to pen our perspective on local water situations.

The upside of getting old and falling on your face

I’m trying to see the upside of aging, but sometimes it’s hard. Last fall I was jogging along the Hudson River, near my apartment building in Hoboken, when I tripped and fell.

How do I search for an off-campus apartment?

Claire:

While Stevens has significantly expanded its on-campus housing with the recent addition of the UCC University Towers, there still is a serious lack of space to house all Stevens students.

Walker Gymnasium: innovative gym for the innovation university

Across America, there are countless colleges, universities, and other educational institutions; at nearly all of them, there is some building or complex named after a great contributor that houses the school’s athletic center.

Måneskin’s RUSH!: the cost of going global

Måneskin (pronounced moon-ay-skin or mahn-ay-skin) is a newly distinguished Italian rock band, with such accolades as a Best New Artist Grammy nomination, Italian X-Factor runner-up, and Eurovision winner.

The silly little guys need our help!

Off the Press got an urgent message this week on behalf of the silly little guys on campus. It took five of them stacked on top of each other in a little trench coat to get the envelope through the mail slot on our door, but late Thursday night, an adorable little envelope slid through the slot and to the top of our mail pile.

Why Stevens should be a sports school

I envy the students that go to a big sports school. I’m referring to Alabama, Michigan, Ohio State, the Power-5 universities that sell out sporting events in stadiums and the buzz around the big game electrifies the campus.

Reaching the limit of the debt ceiling

Introduction

The U.S. has hit the debt ceiling, meaning that “the total amount of money that the United States government is authorized to borrow to meet its existing legal obligations, including Social Security and Medicare benefits, military salaries, interest on the national debt, tax refunds, and other payments.”