Joanne Glasser finished her breast cancer treatment just in time to celebrate in the women’s basketball team’s victory over Drake and take pride in the funds the team raised for the very illness she had just defeated. “I told coach [Paula] Buscher I wasn’t going…
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Police begin effort to ticket bar owners who allow smoking A year after the passage of the Smoke Free Illinois Act, patrons still smoking in bars may have to finally put an end to their puffing. Police have taken initiative to ticket bar owners and…
Even though she can’t move into her actual home yet, the new Pre-Law Center is up and running as of Monday when its new director, Maria Vertuno, started work. Vertuno received her law degree from the University of Notre Dame, and for 15 years she…
After an extensive four-year hiatus, Blink 182 has finally returned. “To put it simply, we’re back,” the band wrote to fans on its Web site. “We mean really back. Picking up where we left off and then some.” Formed in 1992, pop-punk trio Blink 182’s…
The biggest night for movies is usually a dull and dry affair, full of actors stiffly walking down red carpets, filing into seats, giving simple thank-you speeches and clapping politely. For the 81st Academy Awards, someone decided this idea just had to go. Host Hugh Jackman…
Graphic torture scenes, sexual exploitation and gruesome murder seem to be the makings of a “Saw” movie, not a critical darling. Yet somehow “Slumdog Millionaire” director Danny Boyle makes every action, no matter how shocking or trivial, seem poignant and beautiful, while conquering the cliches…
Since taking off on a solo career more than two decades ago, former Smiths’ singer Morrissey has adopted the gently mocking tone of his former band’s work wholesale and hurled it further into exuberance, complete with Brit wit song titles (here we get “It’s Not…
Laughter filled Neumiller Lecture Hall on Monday night as stand-up comedians Mike Trainor and Steve Hofstetter took the stage for a charity event hosted by Sigma Phi Epsilon. The show opened with Trainor, a comic from New York and contributing editor for Collegehumor.com. …
The Library Student Advisory Committee just released a draft of changes its members feel need to be made to the Cullom-Davis Library. The committee was created in response to low Princeton Review rankings the past two years. It is comprised of students, and it aims…
A lot of misinformation is currently floating around about Freedom of Choice Act, and I am afraid that Brian Lock’s letter that ran on Feb. 6 reflects some of this. First, the law of the land currently is that abortions are banned post-viability, when the…