Our modern information age can be overwhelming at times, what with newspapers, C-SPAN, political magazines and countless blogs. That is why I recommend choosing one trustworthy information source and sticking to it. Personally, I rely on a bastion of journalistic integrity — Glamour magazine.

In the winter of 2001, five homeless adults died of hypothermia on the streets of Washington, D.C. One man, Jesus Blanco, a 43-year-old Salvadoran immigrant, was discovered 50 yards from the entrance to La Casa shelter, where he had been thrown out earlier that night. At the time, D.C.’s only hypothermia clinic for the homeless lacked showers and hot water.

In an April 2006 speech to labor leaders in Washington, D.C., Senator John McCain pointed out, “There are jobs that Americans will not do.” To prove his point, he said, “Now, my friends, I’ll offer anybody here $50 an hour if you’ll go pick lettuce in Yuma this season and pick for the whole season. OK?

Would you join the army for a hot dog? That’s the question I asked myself when I recently walked by the Army ROTC recruitment station.

I take Math in Society. If you ask me, it should be a requirement for every student of every major. How could anyone function without knowing how many sides are on a stop sign (eight) or how many stories there are in a 10-story building (we haven’t gotten to that chapter yet).

Whales: Love them, or hate them? Few issues are more divisive than that of saving the whales. Luckily, these giants of the deep have a new hero — a young woman with the courage and nerve to stand up and say, “Killing whales is wrong.”

I designed a survey the other day to see how many people could locate Sudan on a map. Although I may have been the only person to take the survey, I found the results staggering: Zero percent of those surveyed were able to locate Sudan on a map. I deemed this level of ignorance unacceptable. So, to inform myself, I did what any college student would do — I checked my Facebook.

“Remember, remember the fifth of November....”

There is a man who is known round the world, who has become a common household name, and whose face has graced countless TV screens and newspapers. I’m talking, of course, about Richard Gere, star of “Pretty Woman” and People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 1999.

There is a man who is known round the world, who has become a common household name, and whose face has graced countless TV screens and newspapers. I’m talking, of course, about Richard Gere, star of “Pretty Woman” and People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive in 1999.