After 16 days of closed national parks, employee furlough and all around annoyance, Congress has decided to resolve the government shutdown by extending funding for the government until January 1 and allowing the Treasury to borrow until February. However, the House and the Senate still need to agree on a […]
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Tuition Rates See Stabilization
College tuition is expensive, and every student fears that the price will skyrocket at the end of each year. Huffington Post has found that this year “the cost has gone up – but not as much [as] in the past.” College tuition has always drastically increased from year to year, […]
Supreme Court Considers Affirmative Action
Three years after the University of Michigan Law School began enforcing affirmative action in their admissions process, Michigan voters repealed its ruling. Instead, they opted for the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, which prohibits the government from granting preferential treatment to any individual or group based on race, sex, color, ethnicity […]
Turning It Up a Few Degrees
EU Broadens Curriculum
Nobel Prize Ceremony Held in Sweden
From October 7 through 12, the recipients of the 2013 Nobel Prizes were announced in Stockholm, Sweden. This year, all six Nobel Prizes will be awarded on the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, December 10, at ceremonies in Oslo, Norway and Stockholm. On the first day, James E. Rothman and […]
Vietnam Vets Recognized After Five Decades
On September 20, 47 years after their heroic actions on the battlefield, American veterans of the Vietnam war received their medals for bravery. On April 30, 1967, Marines serving with Company M, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Division, were ordered to secure Hill 881 South during the first Battle of Khe Sanh. […]
Merkel Re-elected Germany’s Chancellor
On Sunday, September 22, Angela Merkel was re-elected Chancellor of Germany for a third term. Merkel, a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is a well-respected figure throughout the European Union (EU) and is considered by many to be the most powerful woman in the world. There are six […]
Gunman Slays 12 At Navy Yard
Aaron Alexis entered the Washington Naval Yard on September 16, 2013 ready to kill and be killed. The FBI stated, “Washington Navy Yard gunman Aaron Alexis left a note saying he was driven to kill by months of bombardment with extremely low-frequency radio waves.” The note also explains that Alexis […]
Dr. Bradstreet Pioneers New Astronomy Curriculum
Dr. David Bradstreet, the chair of the Astronomy and Physics Department at Eastern, has completed the new curriculum for the Spitz SciDome located in the Julia Fowler Planetarium. Spitz Fulldome Curriculum Volume 2 was made available to over one hundred planetariums across the globe, as far as Turkey, in […]
Obama Continues Fight For Gun Control
Vice President Biden announced two new policies in regard to gun control on Thursday, August 29. While the White House has been busy dealing with issues in the Middle East, Biden has introduced the policies in the form of executive action. Obama’s pursuit of stricter gun policies was sparked in […]