Within one short year, local band Rareluth has become a dominant force in Lafayette’s music scene. The band plays frequently in and out of town to packed shows, and the fanbase is consistently growing. For my last column of the semester, I wanted to interview Rareluth’s frontwoman, Christine Peirce, to gain insight on one of Lafayette’s most popular bands as well as Peirce’s musical journey as an individual.

It is a sad day today as this will be my last column for The Vermilion. I know what you’re thinking: “But Muscles, you will be back next semester for more epic reviews!”

Given that this is the final week of school and that this will likely be my last relationship column, I figured that I might as well discuss the underlying subject of this column: The Weight.

Although “The Hunger Games” is a washed-out version of the novel, I’m not surprised it held No. 1 at the box office for four straight weeks. It was an exciting film, but, unlike the novel, it was hard to feel the devastation of teenagers killing other teenagers for public entertainment.

People often believe the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation. Are they right?

During the course of the year, there has been one topic that I have deliberately avoided writing about in my column: gay marriage.

This article is going to sufficiently contradict a previous statement I made: "I hate to place many women on a psychological level that is, well, below mine, but girls, you’re not giving me any choice.”

April 20 is Day of Silence, when people promote awareness of anti-gay bullying.

“Artificial methods (of birth control) are like putting a premium upon vice. They make man and woman reckless. And the respectability that is being given to the methods must hasten the dissolution of the restraints that public opinion puts upon one. Adoption of artificial methods must result in imbecility and nervous prostration.

How was your spring break? Did you party your booty off? Come Sunday, did you realize, “Oh golly, I’ve got a mountain of work to do before the end of the semester, and all I’ve done all week long was lounge around the pool and nurse category-seven hangovers?”