November 2012

A term you hear more and more these days is the term “student-athlete.” Now we’re not talking about the Division I superstar who plays their sport and just happens to be affiliated with an academic institution. And we’re not talking about those people who spend every hour outside of their sport in the library working. […]

Terror Behind the Walls

Maame Yankah, a junior Economic Development major from Ghana, discusses in an interview the differences of her cross cultural experiences and how it impacted her education and faith. Accustom to the atmosphere of a boarding school for 18 years, Yankah notes the most significant educational difference is what she calls the ‘chew and pour’ Ghanaian

The sun sets on my worries, And steals all my failures. It promises tomorrow, A day to start anew. It wishes me good night, As it frees all its colors, It kisses this world goodbye, With shades red and blue. I look on and watch it fall, So gracefully behind the world, As though an

Colors yellow, orange, and red flutter down, Spinning, spinning, raining under branches that were once their homes. Forgetting the bare, dark skeletons of the tree tops above, Swaying, swaying, creating deep, crunchy, leafy graveyards, Leaving their beautiful mark on the ground. In their quiet death the world discovers their lives. The soft breath of the

Roman Catholic, Baptist, Calvinist, Anglican, Presbyterian. It won’t be hard to find the difference, but what do all of these have in common. They are all Christians. Why does it seem like on this campus, a Christian campus, knowing someone’s denomination is so important? It is so frustrating to be discriminated against for something as

65 percent of American women and girls report disordered eating behaviors. This is the world we live in. It is so broken that women are degraded and conditioned to hate themselves and want to change themselves. And it’s not just women – it’s young girls. In the media, women are portrayed in negative manners. Consumer

walking for a cure

On April 15th, 1912, one catastrophic event occurred that changed the lives of thousands of people forever. The RMS Titanic, a steam cruiser which boasted to be unsinkable, sank into the freezing cold Atlantic ocean, taking the lives of many innocent passengers. One hundred years later, the Franklin Institute is honoring those victims with an

How effective is political discourse?