Without question, The Beatles is one of the most influential and highly praised rock ’n’ roll bands of all time. In only seven years, they were able to capture both the imagination and praise of a troubled youth during desperate times through their catchy, typically…
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Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy fights with girl. Boy and girl make up with a grand gesture and live happily ever after. Such is the set-up for most romantic movies. “(500) Days of Summer” is not one of those, with…
By next year, a new apartment complex on Main Street will have hopefully injected some “vitality” into the area, city planners said. The area between Main, Underhill and Russell Streets and Bourland Avenue now houses single family homes, a vacant lot and a vacant Walgreens…
ROTC and the military science program are back on campus this year with a much stronger program than last year and a more than 400 percent increase in student involvement. “The military science courses are specifically designed to teach young cadets leadership and to be…
Following the excitement of a successful election, 12 new senators were sworn into the Student Senate on Monday, during the first meeting for the 2009-10 school year. Alan Galsky, the vice president of student affairs, began the meeting by swearing in the new senators. Galsky…
After receiving its charter to become an official fraternity on campus last year, some members of Lambda Chi Alpha have taken the first steps toward living together as a fraternity. “What is different for us is that we don’t have a location on campus to…
When Erin Krubeck graduated last May, the honor roll marketing major hadn’t received any job offers. “Searching for a job you know you’re not only one of a million college graduates, you’re one of those graduates, plus all those people who have gotten laid off…
Students had the opportunity to hear a Holocaust survivor speak to celebrate Constitution Day this week. Constitution Day has been observed since 2004 when Sen. Robert Byrd added an amendment to the Omnibus spending bill that created Constitution Day, also known as Citizenship Day. The…
Kevin Stein’s poem “On Being a Nielsen Family” is currently undergoing a process to become an interactive presentation that will embody the poem’s meaning in a digital, technological way rather than just as a poem on paper. “The project is still taking shape,” said Stein,…
Illinois is flush with political corruption. In an attempt to battle a part of that, 13 state senators will be on campus Tuesday afternoon for the third of four meetings aimed at overhauling the way the state draws Congressional Districts. The senators’ first two meetings…