Month: April 2014

(All events begin at 7:30 PM otherwise noted) Friday, April 4th ~ Faculty Recital - The Hett || Joseph Welch, PhD., Piano & Friends Thursday, April 10th ~ Senior Recital - The Hett || Jake Schmittling, tuba Friday, April 11th ~ Chamber Ensembles Concert - The Hett Saturday, April 12th ~ Student Plays - Eisenmayer Auditorium Sunday, April 13th (2:30 pm) ~ Student Directed One Act Play Festival - Eisenmayer Auditorium Tuesday, April 15th ~ Music Majors’ Concert - The Hett April 17th - 24th ~ McKendree Student Exhibit - McKendree Art Gallery featuring McKendree Student Artists Monday, April 21st ~ Student Recital - Bothwell Chapel || Natalie Pries, voice Thursday, April 24th (4 - 7 pm) ~ McK Art Gallery Reception Friday, April 25th ~ Spring Choral Concert - The Hett Sunday, A...

Question:  A few days ago, I was placed into a group of students who were made to make my life miserable. The assignment is due in a week, but no one except me is working on the project. My peers are lazy, and they know I will get the work done in order to get a good grade. What should I do? Should I stop the project altogether in order to make their grades suffer? Request a new group? Speak to the professor? I need answers please! Thanks, From: I Hate Group Work  Answers:  Girl Talk: To: “I Hate Group Work,” First off, do not stop working on the project because it will hurt your grade. You should at least try to email the students; maybe they have been waiting for someone to email them about getting together to work on the project. Also, you could try to catch them in class to talk t...

BY KIMBERLY BENNETT Co-Editor-in-Chief I’m not going to lie; commuting every day to McKendree to attend classes really sucks. As much as I enjoy McKendree University as a school, sometimes—driving to campus can be such a drag. There are times I don’t feel like coming to campus for only two classes during the day. There are events I am required to go to at night for class credit, making me have to stay on campus for 8+ hours because it’s pointless to go home only to come back two or three hours later. Sometimes, especially during the snow and ice storms this year, I couldn’t attend class because I was snowed/iced in. What’s worse? Driving through road construction or having to find an alternate route due to road construction is a pain in the….you get the idea. With all of the road constr...

BY SHARON BEARD STAFF WRITER Internships offer great opportunities for students wishing to gain experience in their field of study while working toward their degree. An internship can help fill the gaps in your resume and give you actual experience which can mean the difference between getting an interview, let alone a job after graduation. Finding an internship can be difficult if you live in a small town because it can limit employment opportunities due to the fact that small towns have a smaller population and less economic growth which result is less employment opportunities. Virtual internships make it possible for any student to gain experience no matter where they live. It can provide a student from a small town the opportunity to intern at a large company in their field of stud...

BY: EMILY LUCIA Assistant Editor “My name is Oliver Queen. For five years I was stranded on an island with only one goal-survive. Now, I will fulfill my father’s dying wish—to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city. To do this, I must become someone else. I must become something else.” The series, Arrow, opens with a news report saying that son of billionaire, Robert Queen, who was thought to have been dead, has been rescued from being stranded on an island in the Pacific after his father’s cruise ship, The Queen’s Gambit, sank five years previous. Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) has gone through hell and back while on that island. He learned about things he never thought he would have to learn. Upon his return home to Starling City, he not only sta...

BY KIMBERLY BENNETT Co-Editor-in-Chief One of the world’s earliest natural disasters recorded in history. The volcano destroyed two of its surrounding cities in Southern Italy, covering Pompeii and Hurculaneum in ashes. Some scientists believe Mount Vesuvius to be the world’s most dangerous volcano, yet—even in its dormant state—more people live within its vicinity than any other active volcano. Even though the volcano has erupted many times since 79 AD (the last being in 1944), the mountain of lava is sure to flare up in flames once again. Who knows what kind of volcanic activity Mount Vesuvius might have in store next? One day, film director, Paul W.S. Anderson, decided to take on the challenge of directing an epic story, transforming Mount Vesuvius’s legacy into a magnificent and hig...

BY SHARON BEARD Staff Writer CBS reached a milestone, airing its 250th episode “Dressed to Kill” on March 4th. NCIS is in its 11th season and the show ranked as one of the most popular programs on CBS with an average of 21.3 million weekly viewers. The 250th episode opens with Anthony DiNozzo (Michael Weatherly) meeting his father (Robert Wagner) outside a hotel where a private investigator is seen impersonating a Naval officer. DiNozzo chases the man into an alley where a shooting occurs- the only witness being DiNozzo’s father. The investigation of the shooting is led by Coyle (Hugo Armstrong) who sets out to prove DiNozzo’s innocence. Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon) and his team look for proof of DiNozzo’s innocence. While searching the hotel the team finds Michael Elliot murdered in one ...

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BY KATIE DAVENPORT Staff Writer Composition of the U.S. Men outside of time not part of the Brotherhood, down after the death of Clifton. Feelings of obligation to include the invisible people. Jack’s blindness, a glass eye for Santa Claus because why not? The “Great White Father’s” job is to tell them after Brother Clifton’s death that crowds flocked to his funeral. (From American Lit. notes on Invisible Man)