Campus Life

  • First steps: first-year students explore their surroundings

    First steps: first-year students explore their surroundings

    Cheers to all the peer mentors who resolutely sprinted and squealed with enthusiasm during the First-Year Walk.  You can hold me responsible for any intense suffering in the heat that day, and I especially apologize to my fellow first-years for bringing beach-necessary weather to a place devoid of beaches; driving to Pennsylvania from Florida, I

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  • Standing Together for stronger community

    Standing Together for stronger community

    One of the most important lessons that all of us have to learn in life is how to get out of our own self-centeredness and realize that we are members of a larger community, one that depends on respect for other people and people taking responsibility for their own actions. We must treat others as

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  • No Summer Internship? Enjoy your summer with these few tips

    No Summer Internship? Enjoy your summer with these few tips

    If you are one of those students who did not get the oh-so-wonderful opportunity to spend your entire summer interning and will have a lot of free time on your hands this summer, then this article is for you. So what fun things are there to do this summer? Well I am guessing that most

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  • Tragedy inspires camaraderie, character

    Tragedy inspires camaraderie, character

    In times of crisis, people usually put aside their differences to try to work together for the common good.  This was demonstrated after many major tragedies: 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and most recently the Boston Marathon bombings. As the magnitude of this horror became more apparent, people in Boston and throughout the nation came together to

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  • How to succeed at your summer internship

    How to succeed at your summer internship

    If you are fortunate enough to have acquired an internship over the summer, you are well on your way to figuring out what you want to do with your life, or, at the very least, have a better idea than a person who has no internship experience. However, there are a multitude of things you

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  • Learning beyond the Classroom

    Learning beyond the Classroom

    On the Friday of Spring Break, I was invited to attend the International Business Council Meeting by my International Business (IB) mentor in Chester County along with my professor, Dr. Hossein Varamini, Director of IB Program. IBC is a monthly meeting of international business executives from different sectors that come together for a roundtable discussion

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  • Identity Theft in College

    Identity Theft in College

    We’ve all heard stories of phony internet sites that ask for credit card information ruining lives and credit scores, but few students feel that identity theft is a problem that affects their age group. Contrary to this belief, about eight percent of all identity thefts are committed against people under the age of 18, according

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  • Fact or fiction: “if it bleeds, it leads.”

    Fact or fiction: “if it bleeds, it leads.”

    “If it bleeds, it leads,” or so goes the popular journalism adage.  Some journalists detest such a description of their art, while some wholeheartedly agree that compelling headlines come from tragedy. And if it bleeds, it leads, is true, the more blood, the better: or at least, the more likely to be published. The media

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  • PUT YOUR RECORDS ON: Iron Man 3: Heroes Fall

    PUT YOUR RECORDS ON: Iron Man 3: Heroes Fall

    Rating: n anticipation of the “Iron Man 3” movie premiere this Friday, iTunes has recently released an album of tracks inspired by the motion picture. This collaborative, multi-genre compilation features popular artists AWOLNATION, Walk the Moon, Imagine Dragons, Passion Pit, Neon Trees and 3OH!3, to name a few. In keeping with the spirit of the

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