#open letter
Dear Paddy Murphy Week: Let’s stop the nonsense
Dear Paddy Murphy Week/SAE Brothers,
I have a problem with the idea behind Paddy Murphy Week. I get that the purpose of Paddy Murphy Week is to foster relationships between the sororities while raising money for a good cause. I support your efforts to fundraise for a whole week while including the whole Greek community. However, I have a problem with the fact that you get pleasure out of watching girls compete against each other in various sports and activities. more 
Meet WE are the WE, Northwestern’s newest attempt at a social handbook
Dear WE,
We hadn’t heard about you until you started following us on Twitter two weeks ago. And we’re guessing the majority of campus remains similarly in the dark because, well, you have less than a hundred followers. But with a purposely cryptic name like “WE are the WE” and an oh-so humble tag line—”Top Schools, Normal Girls”—we were instantly intrigued. So we checked you out. And you warmed the deepest parts of our gossip-loving hearts. more
Our first Letter to the Editor, sort of
It’s always nice to hear from alumni, especially when they are trying to impart life lessons. We’re listening. As “A Concerned Wildcat” points out, life is too short. Too short for shitty marketing and slightly embarrassing misuses of dawn/don, but hey, sometimes we get caught up. We hope the rest of our readers will forgive our “grievous crimes against the English language” and bear with our usage of the Oxford comma for what we guarantee will be another year ranting, raving, and semi-professional journalism. See the full letter after the jump. more
Dear NU PR: It’s time to go back to the drawing board
Dear Northwestern Public Relations,
We know you’ve been busy conducting damage control for the seemingly constant, but hardly positive coverage this esteemed university received in the past year. So, we get it, like any good missionary, you’re eager to get out there and spread the good will of the university. You want to show these kids—and their parents—why they should attend (and more importantly pay) the university. And let’s face it, there’s a lot to tout: the stellar academics, the unbeatable location, the Big Ten sports teams. So you can imagine our dismay when we came across your two new TV spots whilst casually flipping through the Big Ten Network—yes, we don’t really understand why a league needs its own network, but we’ll save that for another rant. more
Dear Kafein: Get it together
Dear Kafein,
I have a confession: When I was 17, I kind of had a crush on you. Having grown up in a neighboring suburb, my friends and I treasured the opportunities to rest our hands on your treasure chests, and we gladly drove twenty minutes to immerse ourselves in a round of 1974 Trivial Pursuit. You engaged me intellectually—and sexually, to the extent that I fantasized about how your attractive wait staff dressed my lattes with syrup-butterflies. more 
Okay, this bad rapping needs to stop
Dear Fratty Wannabe Rappers,
Oh, what a few weeks it’s been. We thought lyrical lightning could only strike once—at least at a homogeneous, whitewashed, top-tier Midwestern institution of higher education. But how wrong we were. more
