Overrated: Our society requires too much entertainment The Super Bowl is the ultimate feast day of the commercialization of professional sports. John Senior, a humanities professor at the University of Kansas, paints the picture of the American’s gross consumption of professional sports. “The armchair quarterback, puffing his gut on insipid American beer and potato chips,...
Starting Jan. 28, students will have to walk a little farther to pick up packages from the campus postal center. The postal and copy centers — which handle student package pick-up, outgoing official college mail, and all kinds of printing — will move out of the basement of Moss Hall. The offices’ new location will...
Sister Miriam James Heidland, a former Division I volleyball player, is a sister of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity. Q: Do you still get the chance to play volleyball? A: Every now and then, yeah. When I lived in Seattle, I played in an adult league which was a lot...
The movie industry is dying. Due to widespread COVID-19 restrictions, movie theaters around the world have been forced to close their doors for almost a year. As a result, in 2020, U.S. movie theaters totalled more than $9 billion less at the box office than they did in 2019. Not only that, but back...
Visitors to the Michigan Capitol in Lansing can no longer open carry firearms into the building. The move comes in the wake of increased security at state capitol buildings after the Jan. 6 riot at the U. S. Capitol. On Jan. 11, the Michigan Capitol Commission voted 6-0 in favor of banning open-carry firearms inside...