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By LAURA GAY STAFF WRITER The world was abuzz for the Oscars this past Sunday, where many were recognized for their outstanding contri­butions to film. Well, one of our very own, Dr. Patti Frazier Lock, was recently awarded…

By JONATHAN TEN EYCK FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT In 2008, the United States of America elected the country’s first black president. This landmark moment in American politics was celebrated not only within the country, but also in the East…

By ROBERT GAKUMU GUEST WRITER One evening in 2013, my father came home and announced that the following January we would be hosting an American student from St. Lawrence University in our home. He was clutching in his hand a passport…

“Dear students, I know when you’re texting. Sincerely, no one just looks down at their crotch and smiles.” – Dear Blank Please Blank             I found this quote on a website called Dear Blank Please Blank. The entire site has quotes of…

Photo Courtesy of Telegraph.UK “And it seems to me you lived your life/ like a candle in the wind/ never know who to cling to/ when the rain set in/ your candle burned out long before/ your legend ever did” – Elton John. The words…

Photo via Forbes.com Harper Lee, the acclaimed author of To Kill a Mockingbird, died on Feb. 19, 2016 at 89 years old in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. By the time they graduate, there is almost no U.S. university student who has…

Photo via The Atlantic The Democratic and Republican primary season has thinned out the herd, most recently on the Re-publican side with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush dropping out after a less than stellar performance in the South…

Photo Courtesy of CNN Antonin Scalia, the first Italian-American Supreme Court Justice and longest serving Justice of the current Court, died on February 12 of natural causes at the age of 79 at a Texas Ranch. Scalia’s death came as an…