Among American youth, the question of heritage is often met with percentages and fuzzy ancestral remembrances. Unless you claim Irish blood. The mother’s lineage matters little when a father bestows a name like Murphy or Kelly or O’Sullivan onto his children and marks them forever as a product of that green and shining land. After...
My brother may never have to study for finals. My brother may never worry about his GPA. My brother may never feel the pressure to find a job after college. That’s because Levi has a congenital heart defect, craniosynostosis, is missing a kidney, and on top of all this, has DiGeorge Syndrome, which includes 183...
Six students took a trip to New York City over spring break with career services, touring major companies and sightseeing, in accordance with student preference. Every spring break, career services plans a trip to visit a city students are most interested in living in after graduation. The trip was three days and cost $350 for...
When customers turn into the drive thru at Vanity Ice Cream, Earl the rooster welcomes them with a loud “cock-a-doodle-doo.” He’s been doing so for the past eight years, ever since he ran away from the county fairgrounds located just across the street. Owner Corey Burke said no one knows where Earl lives, but...
Students, faculty, and college visitors will gather in Phillips Auditorium for four days starting Sunday for this year’s fourth Center for Constructive Alternatives. But what does that mean? The title is clunky and bureaucratic. No one calls it that. Even the event posters shorten it to CCA. The Center for Constructive Alternatives does not mean...