Shiraz Ahmed
Shiraz Ahmed is Buzzard editor.
What’s your greatest irrational fear?
Zombie Hitler. What if?
What’s your pet peeve?
When I’m working on a computer that’s not mine and it doesn’t have the fonts I traditionally use.
What do you read for pleasure?
Tumblr blogs.
What’s your vice of choice?
Late night two-for-one Sarpino’s personal pizza.
What is the Tea Party?
People who are just barely sane enough to be taken seriously.
Posts by Shiraz Ahmed
- 2/1/12 - Treat yourself to Muay Thai
- 1/20/12 - Intel reimagines Dolphin Show actors as Glee characters
- 9/28/11 - Catch a free Broken Social Scene concert tonight in Wrigleyville
- 5/12/11 - Keeping the faith
- 4/13/11 - Austin and Ash win ASG election, “I can’t believe it’s real,” – Austin
- 4/11/11 - Matt and Jazzy talk Lady Gaga and Young Money, town-gown, and voter outreach
- 4/7/11 - ASG Senate restructuring gets caught up in classic Senate-style bureaucracy
- 3/31/11 - Off campus juniors don’t like to hang out with nazis, regret missing fucksaw
- 3/3/11 - Morty quits being a team player in “fuck saw,” decides to feed media circus
- 3/2/11 - NUIT announces students will be asked to change password just once a year
- 2/16/11 - NU secret society that supposedly reps student body kind of doesn’t
- 2/10/11 - This year, Bobb-McCulloch gets two formals
- 2/9/11 - Theater sophomore proud that Chet Haze has hip-hop ambitions
- 2/3/11 - SESP senior wants to reanimate Biggie for Dillo Day
- 2/1/11 - NU declares snow day for first time since 1979
- 2/1/11 - Before Brothel-gate: A history of student activism at Northwestern
- 1/31/11 - NU’s endowment ranks 9th in the nation
- 1/25/11 - Test your truthiness with our overly-obsessive guide to Colbert
- 1/24/11 - Colbert to speak at commencement
- 1/19/11 - NBN editor Nick Castele sends really, really strange listserv emails
- 1/19/11 - Study finds college not the best place for education
- 1/14/11 - Delt explores possibility of returning to NU
- 1/13/11 - Wildcats mutter under their breath about contract extension for Carmody
- 1/12/11 - NU passive-aggressively insults Columbia, MIT, via study
- 1/10/11 - The Daily’s looking out for your sex life
- 1/7/11 - College newspaper creates pay wall in face of new costs
- 1/5/11 - Even in the Ivy, men will be men
- 1/5/11 - Second City makes grand return
- 1/3/11 - Swanky new Harris Hall opens doors
- 5/27/10 - Website declares Pi Phi the wildest sorority of the Midwest
- 5/26/10 - The Untold Story of “Rushed”
- 5/25/10 - Number of jobs for recent college grads rise
- 5/24/10 - Music frat Phi Mu Alpha votes to join IFC
- 5/20/10 - University of Florida implements Facebook-based tutor matching
- 5/18/10 - Google opens up Google Voice service to students
- 5/18/10 - Harvard senior faces criminal charges for false admissions material
- 5/17/10 - Allison freshman wants Morty to “buy us a new Norris”
- 5/11/10 - New survey shows that most professors use social media
- 5/10/10 - RTVF sophomore admires the eye-candy of the Econ department
- 5/6/10 - Former Pike fondly remembers watching sunrise at the Deuce
- 5/4/10 - Have you ever wanted to hookup at the library?
- 4/27/10 - VP of Student Affairs Bill Banis is retiring
- 4/26/10 - Bobb CA doesn’t get turned on
- 4/23/10 - Bobb freshman hooks up to The Star-Spangled Banner
- 4/21/10 - Keg Monday and 4/20 collide at Tridelt Pancake Party
- 4/20/10 - Colleges to give iPads to students
- 4/20/10 - Will profs start using YouTube to promote courses?
- 4/15/10 - Comm freshman wants to know if Morty’s “gotten with a student”
- 4/15/10 - Quartet Copies doesn’t give NU a cut of profits
- 4/12/10 - Bienen sophomore goes to Burger King sober
- 4/8/10 - Weinberg senior hates Kresge, never been to Dillo Day
- 4/7/10 - Got stress?
- 4/6/10 - Trump dumps Blago
- 4/5/10 - Bobb freshman turned on by handcuffs, hooks up to Nine Inch Nails
- 3/30/10 - Is Morty checking your Facebook status updates?
- 3/2/10 - Soon-to-be-former ‘Cat thinks NU tries to be a state school
- 2/25/10 - UCSD students protest ‘Compton Cookout’
- 2/24/10 - What can the failed Darfur effort teach the Living Wage campaign?
- 2/18/10 - Will there be a new Norris?
- 2/17/10 - Norris labels elevator problem a freak accident, not result of old age
- 2/11/10 - ASG holds special meeting on alcohol
- 2/5/10 - SASA dancing feels like having the night of your dreams
- 2/4/10 - New research supports your drinking habit… kind of
- 2/2/10 - Living wage movement may be at a standstill
- 1/28/10 - The Jersey Shore meets the Ivy League
- 1/26/10 - The case against donating to Haiti
- 1/21/10 - A Berkeley judge backs the frat boys
- 1/21/10 - Chemists vs. Greeks: Who will own the night?
- 1/14/10 - Begging is part of the mayor’s job description
- 1/11/10 - Unfazed by coup or university, 20 students bring meds to Honduras
- 1/7/10 - NU race talk goes on TV and NBN makes Obama a fratboy
- 11/25/09 - Help for, er, “overly attentive” parents
- 11/24/09 - Asterik’s Inglourious antics take over Reading Week
- 11/23/09 - An exit sign thief in Bobb causes financial problems for the dorm
- 11/20/09 - “No brown people in the theater department”
- 11/18/09 - Comm frosh talks about her dad’s medical marijuana bill
- 11/18/09 - For Protess, “business as usual”
- 11/13/09 - Kellogg employee dies following car accident on Sheridan
- 11/12/09 - Morty gets down with The Boss, Buckley, and “Californication”
- 11/12/09 - SafeRide expansion flies through red tape
- 11/11/09 - Medill Innocence Project scandal gets the Gawker treatment
- 11/6/09 - Blackface debate rages on in the Daily’s comments, and the Dark Night director’s brother attempts a real-life jail break
- 11/4/09 - Bill’s Blues loses its liquor license and Lupe is coming to Leverone
- 10/30/09 - Mad scientists and pong with the parents
- 10/28/09 - Car accident update, poison coffee, and NU’s secret society
- 10/26/09 - The Fake ID Factory
- 10/23/09 - How to pass a drug test while keeping your club card
- 10/23/09 - Bobb freshman goes to the Keg to be alone
- 10/16/09 - Music download get-arounds
- 10/16/09 - “Queef is a pretty funny word”
- 10/14/09 - R.I.P. Hundo
- 10/1/09 - A night at the South Campus speakeasy









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