Puzzles and Games

Editors’ Comment

Words with friends.

It’s all fun and games until Buzzsaw gets involved. Life is full of puzzles, tests and trials for us to conquer — or
be defeated by. So join us for another rousing round of journalistic integrity and general shenanigans.

For once a corporation is on the right side, as Apple faces of with the FBI. (Apple vs. the FBI p. 6)

Have you ever met people whose sports team is everything to them? Sports fandom can be a replacement for religion when ardent supporters base their life around their favorite team. (The Idolatry of Sports, p. 20)

A puzzle in and of itself. Creative Control is a piece that just doesn’t fit. (Creative Control review, p. 34)

Issue Contents

News & Views

• Apple vs. the FBI by Sara Belcher
  When government and technology intersect dangerously
• Keep Your Laws Off My Body by Elena Piech
  What Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt means for reproductive rights
• Infectious Competition by Madeline Mathers
  Zika as a threat to 2016 female Olympic athletes and tourists
• The Academy Awards’ Aftermath by Tyler Obropta
  It’s an industry problem
• Contamination Abomination by Alexa Salvato
  Clean water is a human right
• Constant Stimulation by Emma Lewis
  How pop culture and social media serve as a distraction

Upfront

• Absent Consent by Celisa Calacal
  indicating inaction against university rape culture
• The Idolatry of Sports by M.N. Hornick
  When rooting for a team becomes a religion
• Monopolizing Society by Ana Borruto
  How the game of capitalism creates winners and losers
• The Sport of Stadium Building by Anna Lamb
  How new venues cost cities and taxpayers in the long run
• Stateless Societies by Evan Popp
  Uncovering the ideological enigma of Anarchy

Ministry of Cool

• Take One Down, Pass It Around by Julia Tricolla
  The origins of the classic college drinking game
• RAW FROM THE SAW: A Man Alive by Alexa Salvato
• Sophie’s Quick and Dirty by Sophie Israelsohn
• RAW FROM THE SAW: 99¢ by Tyler Obropta
• RAW FROM THE SAW: Embrace of the Serpent by Tyler Obropta
• RAW FROM THE SAW: Creative Control by Tyler Obropta
• RAW FROM THE SAW: Fulle House by Grace Rychwalski
• RAW FROM THE SAW: Street Fighter V by Will Uhl

Prose & Cons

• A Letter For My Ex-Lover by Samantha Brodsky
• Micro/Macro by Gavin Dubois
• The Hairdresser Said by Grace Rychwalski
• On Vacation in Athens by Joseph Heiland
• Beginning, Middle, & End by Alexis Morillo
• To Be Kept by Erika Walsh
• Memories of Rowing Camp *Web Exclusive by Haley Goetz

Sawdust

• Is It Too Late to Play ‘Sorry’? by Rachel Mucha
  Justin Bieber reveals true meaning behind song
• War Games by Hale Douthit
  New convention decrees alternative conflict resolution
• Cards Against Candidacy by Laura Miller
  2016 election to be decided by card game
• Solving the Puzzle by Michele Hau
  Crossword maker searches for missing daughter
• Pun and Games by Grace Rychwalski & Claire McClusky
  Buzzsaw’s take on some old favorites
• Buzzsaw Asks Why… People act like social justice is a game by Grace Rychwalski