Although the sale of Coca-Cola was banned from campus last spring, vitaminwater, purchased by Coke in May, is still sold in the student bookstore. Many students are upset that despite the efforts of the Activist Collective, Coke has still maintained a hold on the Simon's Rock campus.
Friday, Nov. 9, local artist John Lawson discussed his exhibit in the Liebowitz Gallery. This exhibit focuses on his experiences of New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina. Lawson lost his home and much of his work under six feet of water. The work in this exhibit is some of what he was able to rescue and rework.
Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez and Rebecca Fiske to give Seminar Lectures at Simon's Rock
Today's generation of college students are becoming increasingly active in their local communities. But as their volunteer hours are growing, so is their political indifference, according to a report released Wednesday. In the report, researchers from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement found this generation, the Millennial Generation or Generation Y, to be turned off or polarized by national politics, instead engaging more at the local level than the generations before them.
The cost of a college education may drop for civic-minded students if Bill Richardson becomes president. In his recently published education plan, the New Mexico governor and 2008 Democratic presidential candidate stated that if elected, he would offer two years of loan forgiveness — the cancellation of part or all of an educational loan by the federal government — to pay for students' tuition costs at public universities in exchange for one year of public service.
Many students feel victimized by their allegedly biased professors. Students with conservative viewpoints feel more ostracized by their professors' "liberal" lectures than others. Some of these people feel as though their professors' personal convictions have no place in a productive learning environment.
The technology has the potential to help people in need of organ donations. University of Missouri researchers have developed a technology that allows scientists to "print" tissue that might eventually be able to create whole, functioning organs to be used for transplants.
The marquees may be dark, but Broadway has never had more drama. Three angry middle-aged women stood outside "Chicago's" Ambassador Theatre Saturday night where curtains were scheduled to go up on Grammy-nominated Brian McKnight as lawyer Billy Flynn.
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