Next year, if you’re a varsity athlete, you may be forced to take a test a bit different from the ones for history or math class. A drug test.

When people think about video games, they often think negatively about it. Many consider it some form of entertainment or look at it as a way of corrupting your mind. As a result, many professional gamers and gaming leagues in the world don't get much respect and recognition.

Video games have impacted the lives of many children and adults throughout the world. I myself play them on a regular basis and can vouch for their great entertainment value. One can easily be entertained for hours on end with video games, but how many hours are enough?

So, along the lines of talking about art, I just wanted to share with you an artist whose art I think is extraordinarily out of the box.

I took this picture when it was over 80 degrees outside this summer at Meadowbrook Park in Urbana.

Recently in Japanese class, we wrote an essay describing aspects of our school. We were supposed to include a sentence about the problems we have, so we learned the words for things such as drugs and guns.

However, drugs don’t seem to be a problem while Uni students are at school, and I've never heard of any incident involving guns.