Campus Life

  • FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

    If you regularly use any social networking sites or attend music festivals you may have seen the iconic To Write Love On Her Arms (TWLOHA) logo. It is often worn on T-shirts by musicians or advertised online and at festivals such as the Vans Warped Tour. I for one have seen this logo frequently, but

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  • American rights versus citizens’ security

    American rights versus citizens’ security

    In place to protect their people, governments are posed with the curious predicament of creating laws that protect their people without dictating their day to day routines. This balancing act has proven a challenge for those in power. The question that is always to be considered; when does enough become too much? The gun control

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  • ‘Silver Linings’ a relatable account of overcoming adversity

    ‘Silver Linings’ a relatable account of overcoming adversity

    Making fun of someone with a mental illness never seems to fly well with an audience, especially when it comes to the big screen. However, director David O. Russell was not afraid to go against the proverbial grain when doing just that with his movie “Silver Linings Playbook,” starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence. In

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  • Record low temperatures reignite global warming debate

    Record low temperatures reignite global warming debate

    On Jan. 24, Elizabethtown College hosted comedian Seaton Smith. One of his several hilarious jokes was on the hot topic, no pun intended, of global warming. He asked the rhetorical question, how are we supposed to stop global warming? His punch line, was just putting a plastic bottle in a recycling bin. While he was

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  • ‘Gun-free zones,’ a striking common denominator for mass murder in U.S.

    ‘Gun-free zones,’ a striking common denominator for mass murder in U.S.

    James Holmes, planning mass murder, drove past seven theaters that were showing “The Dark Knight Rises” to get to one in particular that he had in mind. Some were quite close to his home. Others held unusually large audiences that he might target. But he drove past these and headed for a specific theater in

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  • ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ graphically depicts search for bin Laden

    ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ graphically depicts search for bin Laden

    The movie “Zero Dark Thirty” is a dramatization of one of America’s most compelling stories; the decade-long search for Osama bin Laden. The code “Zero Dark Thirty” is the military term for thirty minutes past midnight, the exact time that the Navy Seals entered bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. This movie has received an immense

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