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Feel so uncomfortable...Can't stand to look at or touch my body because I'm afraid it will get fat...just want to cover up. Don't deserve to look nice...I can't imagine ever being normal. Hate everyone and myself...(Excerpt from journal of Erin* age 23, recovering Anorexic).

For at least two thirds of the year, university students are devoted to virtue; however, there is one week where all inhibitions run amuck. Watching MTV and Girls Gone Wild proves that on Spring Break, many university students, slave driven by their books and grades, flock southward in search of an escape from the tedious certainty of their existence.

Grads, fearing the transition from free wielding student to a disillusioned 9 to 5 corporate slave, may find what they never knew they were looking for at 1455 Blvd. de Maisonneuve: Concordia's teaching English as a second language (TESL) centre. For many antsy young ones, TESL has become a surprising opportunity to travel extensively, make money and gain unique working experience abroad.

Tony Koulakis, better known as Captain Cholesterol, keeps going and going like the Energizer Bunny. At 66 years old, the owner of Cosmos Restaurant in Notre-Dame de Grace is talking retirement. However, Koulakis is always lured back to the greasy spoon and hot grill that have made him famous.

Like a light at the end of a long tunnel of media coverage and reputation debate at our university, shines the story of an accomplished Concordia graduate making a difference in the world. Philip McMaster is settling down from a life of globe-trotting and adventure to mold impressionable young minds.

Graduate students who are feeling less than satisfied with the present streamlined and sometimes singular focused graduate and PhD programs will find some flexibility in Concordia's Specialized Individualized Program (SIP). The school of graduate studies created SIP in 1977 for graduate students with specific research goals that were not part of the university's existing graduate programs.

The ancient Babylonians celebrated New Year's over four thousand years ago. Their celebration, however, was in March coinciding with the planting of crops in the spring. Resolutions reflected their belief that what someone did on the first day of the New Year would have an effect throughout the year.

New Years Eve, 2002 has finally come to a close and the excitement of the crowd around you is escalating. After hours of partying, dancing and drinking with friends you're exhausted, but prepared to bring in 2003 with a bang. The mass of people throb with anticipation as they groove to the rhythm of the music that envelopes everyone in a thick blanket of bass and treble.

It's that wonderful time of year once again. The end of the semester is quickly approaching and many students are feeling drowned in their work. One thought comes to mind amid all the studying and essay writing: When will the Christmas shopping get done? Students don't have much time between classes to handle the mad Christmas shoppers rush.

Subscribers to Bell Sympatico and Videotron high speed Internet got an unpleasant surprise in October when both major service providers put caps on the amount individuals can download, charging extra for surplus. The new cap means that Videotron high speed subscribers are entitled to download six gigabytes of music, video, or software every month under the standard service plan, and pay $7.

Researchers agree that the Internet is the most significant advancement in the field of communications in the history of mankind. This statement is extremely sweeping, but the potential for value along the super highway is literally infinite. Andrew Conrad, who teaches American culture at Phoenix University, described it as a book that never ends, a library with a million floors, a research project with legions of contributors working around the clock forever, a city with all the doors wide open.

From transportation costs to site seeing to drinking in the local clubs, traveling anywhere can get quite expensive. However, it can be done cheaply. Concordia houses one of the most well known companies for student travel, Travel Cuts, or better known in Quebec as Voyage Campus.