Reading Time: < 1 minute In celebration of Constitution Day on Sept. 17, the school sponsored its first ever Constitution Week on campus from Sept. 13-17, featuring learning activities about the Constitution. Activities included several guest speakers, displays around campus, handouts of the Constitution and American flags and even Constitution Jeopardy. Constitution Week Chair and Professor of History and Political […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Quitting emotional and mindless eating habits, creating balance and rediscovering the true joy of food might not be as hard as some might think. The Wellness Programs Center is combining the benefits of an innovative non-diet program by offering a six-week workshop series for students that want to relearn how to eat the right amount […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute On Sept. 17, Mark Wrathall, author of How to Read Heidegger, presented his paper, “An Education in Thinking: Heidegger on Learning to Resist Technology.” “We live in a world where we are driven by technological forces,” he said. He claimed that technological advances have the ability to solve problems for us, and this is eliminating […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Filmmaker and cult icon Trent Harris will be on campus this Tuesday to show one of his latest projects, Children of the Dump. The film follows Scott Neeson, a former 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures Entertainment executive. After a trip to Cambodia where he witnessed the conditions some children were living in, Neeson is […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes M. Night Shyamalan has gotten his turn of critical praise and abuse over the years. His first box-office smash, The Sixth Sense, grossed 293.5 million dollars and was given the Academy nod with six nominations including Best Director. He followed up this success with other mind bending mysteries like Unbreakable and Signs, but soon after, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes If, as Ralph Waldo Emerson said in his Essays, “Every revolution was first a thought in one man’s mind,” then the new exhibit at the Woodbury Art Museum could inspire enough marches to inspire entire albums full of theme music. Now open, and running until Dec. 17, “Art Through the Cultural Revolution” features the art […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Name: Vanim “Van” Zetreus Year: Junior Major: Integrated studies with emphases in Philosophy and Cinema Studies. Minor in Gender Studies. Where were you born? I was born in a small town called Kristianstad, in the south of Sweden about 27 years ago. What was the coolest or most unique part of your childhood? I actually […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes From the terrifying Dawn of the Dead and 28 Days Later to the hilarious Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland, I have always been a fan of zombie movies. Included in the genre is the Resident Evil trilogy, now made a quartet by the recent release of Resident Evil: Afterlife. As a general rule, I […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute Student Health Services is holding a fun contest for students and employees alike to increase their total amount of steps taken each day. The contest, called Walktober, begins on Oct. 4 and goes through Oct. 31. The idea of the competition is to get everyone moving and exercising just a bit more than they were […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Turn on any pop radio station, and it will only be a matter of time before you catch one of B.o.B.’s catchy, infectious tunes. Since coming onto the scene in March 2010, the man has had three straight top 10 hits on the Billboard chart, a number one album and has teamed up with popular […]