Author Archive: Jon Novak
If the barber cuts your hair, who cuts the barber’s?
Simple logic declares that every man either shaves himself or gets shaved by a barber, but the paradoxical reality is, who shaves the barber? The plausible situation...
Swim and dive edges Vandals in opener
The NAU swim and dive team had a more than successful Nov. 5 season opener against the Idaho Vandals in the Wall Aquatic Center, with a final score of 155.5-133.5....
NAU dives into season
Swimmers in blue and gold caps walk single file along the pool in the Wall Aquatic Center to the starting point, before diving at the buzzer to race their teammates....
Wes Pop 66
The soda can looks like a soda can. The aluminum has the same feel, except it’s hollow and isn’t cold and the material inside is not carbonated. You couldn’t...
A generalized account of student life
I know who you are. You are a college student in Flagstaff. You are studying business or economics or women or whatever. But do you know who you are? You’ve...
Sensible politics
Obama won the presidency campaigning on the promise of change. If not for the Republican opposition taking every opportunity to obstruct it while overlooking the...
Post office stomps on its own stamp
The replica’s eyes are deeper and more defined, the hair is different, and a small, rectangular patch is stamped on the crown’s center spike. The original, a...
Gun legislation unexpectedly shot down by Brewer
After university tuition hikes, numerous immigration debacles and Russell Pearce and his colleagues dissatisfying Pima County to the threat of secession, the State...
Obama 2012 campaign will be costly
President Obama recently blazoned to America his reelection campaign 20 months prior to election day on the fourth day of the fourth month, symbolic of his position...
Hugely ambitious, mildly qualified
Michele Bachmann is a Republican congresswoman from Minnesota’s 6th congressional district. She is the first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives...





