By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Sports Editor Forget about pumpkins and scary movies, October is the month for taxes and children's health insurance, at least in Washington D.C. Recently Congress shifted its agenda from the stalemate debate on the Iraq war to the domestic hot topic of government funded healthcare. Specifically, Congress is considering the ... [Read More…]
Wedding evokes marital musings
By Denton Josey, Features Editor I lost one more friend this past weekend. To marriage. He was only 23. Josh Glaze, my friend since fourth grade, used to tell his friends he wasn't going to get married in his 20s. He said, "Jesus didn't lay down his life until he was 33, why should I give mine any sooner?" Such stout resolve did not last, ... [Read More…]
New service trend changes tourism
By Kelsi Peace, Managing Editor Thanks to my post-high school summer spent selling chocolate and charming tourists in my hometown's Montana - made chocolate shop, I can distinguish a tourist from a native just about anywhere. Scrambling for maps, wearing outdated T-shirts and slightly horrifying shorts and spending money as if their credit card ... [Read More…]
Social clubs should seek diversity
By Jared Fields, Editor in Chief During my freshman year I went to Miami on a Spring Break Campaign. I stayed with a Cuban family, and one late night the middle-aged uncle took me to his favorite Cuban restaurant. The establishment wasn't a club or labeled as a "Cuban only" place. It just felt that way because I was the only white boy from the ... [Read More…]
Simpson makes headlines again
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Sports Editor He's back! The man whose ugly mug littered the news pages and talk shows during the better part of the 90s - the guy who walks down the street and just looks guilty. That's right, O.J. Simpson is back in the news. The ex-pro football player and ex-murder suspect was arrested Sunday and charged with six ... [Read More…]
Breaking news or a waste of time?
By Denton Josey, Features Editor A baby monkey befriended a pigeon at a zoo. Isn't that amazing? Oh yeah, and President Bush said 5,700 troops will come home by Christmas, or some thing like that. You should see the picture of that monkey and pigeon. In class Tuesday, the six-year anniversary of the 9/11 attack, my professor read the top news ... [Read More…]
Dateline show goes beyond boundaries
By Jared Fields, Editor in Chief "I'm not going to hurt anyone." Pop. Bill Conradt was talking about the SWAT team surrounding him, not about himself. Rockwall County's chief felony assistant district attorney spoke his last words Sunday, Nov. 5, 2006, as the Terrell SWAT team surrounded and entered his home. He knew he would be arrested-the ... [Read More…]
Sept. 11 anniversary amplifies mistakes in Iraq
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Sports Editor One day before the sixth anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the head of United States forces in Iraq declared progress was being made on the war front. Gen. David H. Petraeus released his report on the result of President George W. Bush's troop surge and promised congress the additional 30,000 ... [Read More…]
Empathizing with a murderer
By Daniel Johnson-Kim, Sports Editor Seung Hui Cho's Korean immigrant parents didn't know how to help their son. According to the Washington Post, the college student who killed 32 students and himself on the Virginia Tech campus on April 16 led a troubled life, and the violent tragedy was the culmination of a lifetime of isolation and ... [Read More…]
‘What true joy looks like’
By Denton Josey, Features Editor Kenya wasn't her first plan, but Erin Shoulders, senior interdisciplinary ministry and communication major from Keller, is glad she went. Originally, Shoulders wanted to go to South Africa but when plans fell through, she felt God leading her to talk about the trip with a friend, Meredith Isenberg. Isenberg, ... [Read More…]
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