The Wake

So you say you’re sick of all the bullshit on TV. Pets that can talk, progress on the bill on drying paint, that kind of thing? Well, sink your ass into that booth, Mr. PBR, because I’ve got some cool stuff for you to read. It’s got intrigue, adventure, and oh, also, it’s about algae.

So I suppose everyone’s entitled to their own interests, but let me tell …

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You might say the first journalist was a caveman with a piece of chalk, and that the first public relations executive was the town crier. Much later (in the 1700s), both journalism and strategic communication (i.e. PR and advertising) in America were revolutionized with the emergence of the printing press and an independent United States. Today, both fields exist in a state of flux, again playing catch-up with innovations (the Internet, computer technology). Perhaps it …

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I
your milled (school), (aged) twitter-pitter-patter whose cat’s got whose tongue
Po Li Ticks
ain’t what makes the flowers grow.
only your promises flower, elaborate lies sprouting from the radio
into my charming, crackling, crumbling
put-up-the-lace curtains now
mouse house
in the city.

II
to feed the machine, (to keep the wheels turning, cogs moving, billows blowing, fibers twitching)

tell me by grumbles are a Noble Cause,

make a Dramatic Pause,

tell me, tell me of the big-skies-heart-wings future

if you want applause.

I want a because.

III
power-suited …

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You’re chain-smoking outside a cocktail party on a Saturday night and the conversation turns to politics. Chances are at least 90 percent of the well-spoken socialites around you are pulling their information straight out of their asses. Today, The Wake will help you become a part of that other 10 percent. I know, I know – making opinions based on actual facts is a fresh and dangerous idea. But that’s what we’re all about here …

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Photos by Matt Miranda and Scottie Tuska

D-day. Convention week. September 1st-4th. Republican Christmas. Call it what you will, the atmosphere in St. Paul that week was truly bizarre. Amongst the commotion surrounding the MSNBC Free Speech Stage® a Tucson cop buys himself a hocked McCain-Palin T-shirt. A man in a suit claims to be McCain’s second choice for VP. A group of antiwar feminists decry the nomination of Sarah Palin and a group of radical …

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Illustration by Srijon Chowdhury

I. INVOCATION

Dearest Senior Class of 2008,

As you are already well aware, May is rapidly approaching and much of the anxiety regarding post-college life that was safely stewing at the recesses of our minds is about to manifest itself, plump and ugly, in our newly re-christened adulthood.

The age we are entering headfirst is certainly an exciting …

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Illustration by Anders Carlson

Engineering students are trading in their graphing calculators for cordless drills and bandanas. Engineers Without Borders is a nonprofit organization that constructs engineering solutions to humanitarian dilemmas in the developing world. Spearheaded in 2000 by charismatic leader Dr. Bernard Amadei and $14,000, EWB has grown to include over 250 professional and student chapters, including a University …

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Photo by Angie Myhre

When asked to comment on the possibility of the presence of clone derived products in packaged foods, the manager of Harvard Market, a Stadium Village area convenience store declined, explaining, “I just don’t see that happening within the next ten years.”

A casual skim through the contents of several biotechnology companies’ websites (Trans Ova Genetics, ViaGen …

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