Honors Denglish

Nestbeschmutzer, Now Out of Austria

by LAUREN STOKES, EDITOR EMERITUS | 5/12/2008

When I boarded my plane out of Austria, the newspapers were breathlessly reporting on the just-broken story of Elisabeth Fritzl, an Austrian woman recently freed from the windowless basement where her father imprisoned her for 24 years and repeatedly raped her, producing seven children, three of whom have also just [...] More

  • Why Universität Wien Should Be Eisbären

    by LAUREN STOKES, EDITOR EMERITUS | 4/24/2008

    My time in Vienna is coming to an end, and while part of me is sad, another part can't wait to get back to good old Swarthmore. I haven't talked [...] More

  • Viennese Churches, and Cool Tricks I Can Do With My Armpits

    by LAUREN STOKES, EDITOR EMERITUS | 4/15/2008

    As the weather (and tourist season) here in Vienna heat up, I myself have been doing more sightseeing, combing the first district and making the occasional venture into the suburbs. [...] More

  • Kebab oder Schnitzel? It's Up to You

    by LAUREN STOKES, EDITOR EMERITUS | 4/8/2008

    In every tourist shop in Vienna, you can buy these shirts that say "No Kangaroos in Austria." The first several times I saw these, they made no sense to me. [...] More

  • The Trabi-Monster

    by LAUREN STOKES, EDITOR EMERITUS | 4/2/2008

    While I was in Prague, I was scootering around the back of the German Embassy trying to get a glimpse of a memorial statue located in the backyard. In a [...] More

  • Oder oder Doch? (German and My Self-Esteem)

    by LAUREN STOKES, EDITOR EMERITUS | 3/27/2008

    This week I'm stuck in Prague, where the keyboards don't make sense (you have to press shift to get a number!) and where Internet costs more than I'm used to. [...] More

  • Welcome to Wien-er-nee-ner-nee-ner

    by LAUREN STOKES, EDITOR EMERITUS | 3/21/2008

    Shortly after writing my last column, I took a 12-hour overnight train to Vienna, where I am now enrolled as a student at the University thereof (the oldest in the [...] More

  • Leaving Berlin, or Many Forms of Sleep Deprivation

    by LAUREN STOKES, EDITOR EMERITUS | 2/27/2008

    At the end of this week I will be leaving Berlin and going to Vienna, which I am excited about primarily because according to the "German 108: Berlin und Wien" [...] More

  • Berlin in the Passive Voice (and Madonna)

    by LAUREN STOKES, EDITOR EMERITUS | 2/19/2008

    I was considering not writing anything at all this week and just letting you contemplate this picture of the diva herself at her latest red carpet premiere, shot by none [...] More

  • Me and Ronald Reagan

    by LAUREN STOKES, EDITOR EMERITUS | 2/8/2008

    As a Swarthmore student, I can testify to the fact that guilt is a familiar emotion. While at Swarthmore, I feel guilty about the sex I don't have, the papers [...] More

  • A Short Lesson in German Grammar

    by LAUREN STOKES, EDITOR EMERITUS | 2/1/2008

    This is the German-English dictionary I use. If that doesn't help, ask your German-major friends: we're always happy to help! What is certainly the best misunderstanding of the trip so [...] More

  • Honors Denglish

    by LAUREN STOKES, EDITOR EMERITUS | 1/24/2008

    Well, as regular readers of this paper may have already guessed, Lauren Stokes is not here this semester--I am studying abroad with a program based out of Macalester, starting with [...] More