Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, better known as Muammar Gadhafi, the ousted dictator of Libya, was killed in a violent gun battle between the National Transition Council of Libya and supporters of the fallen regime. Gadhafi’s death brought an end to a forty-year reign of oppression and terror, and ushered in unprecedented rejoicing throughout the nation of Libya.
As a college student, the tradition dictates that I should be broke beyond all measures of sanity and reasonability, and I certainly am. I make a salary that is firmly planted in the single digits, as this is all that’s really available to me, given my age and status as a full-time college student. When I graduate, I will likely end up for a time among what the New York Times cites as the 25% of Humanities majors who find themselves unemployed, or even potentially among those 29.4% who have found themselves working a job they could have held without obtaining a degree, which will undoubtedly leave me questioning my decision to attend a university at all. My student loans are many and only grow the longer I stay in school. My future, in short, is debt-ridden and uncertain.
The opening line of the declaration reads as follows, and in some ways, says it all: “As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the world can know that we are your allies.”
Every year in October, Dade City’s annual Rattlesnake Festival takes place. This year, the festivities were as grand and unique as ever, boasting food, vendors, and entertainment.
The Florida Republican Party has decided that they will move their 2012 presidential primary on Jan. 31 ahead of the Iowa primary, which is traditionally one of the first in the nation. This was followed up by Nevada declaring their primary for Jan. 14, as well as South Carolina rescheduling for Jan. 21, throwing the Republican Party into complete disarray.
Ten years ago, 24 year old University Of West Florida senior Eric Smallridge left a bar where he had been watching a favorite band with some friends. Smallridge was drinking beer, but like other times, he did a self-sobriety field test by standing on one leg and putting his index finger on his nose and felt he was sober enough to drive. While driving home, a white car in the right lane that was ending cut into his lane. Smallridge swerved his truck into the left lane in order to avoid a collision with the white car, but ended up hitting another car in which two college girls were riding. Their car spun out of control and hit a tree. The impact killed the girls.
On Thursday evening, September 29, 2011, placed on top of a trailer outside the Student Activities Building, was what used to be a Mazda 626. Renee Napier is the mother of Meagan Napier, who along with her best friend Lisa Jo Dickson, was killed in the Mazda by drunk driver Eric Small-ridge. Napier tows the Mazda from school to school and has made it her mission to raise awareness of the danger of driving under the influence of alcohol, and to promote forgiveness and healing.
You all may have experienced Nintendo’s Wii console. If so, you probably fell in love with its motion controls and or games such as Mario Kart, Wii Sports, or even Mr. Nintendo’s Super Mario Galaxy series. You’re probably thinking: what more can Nintendo do? Do they even have any more ideas? Well, the answer is yes. Nintendo will soon be launching a new game known as Wii U. It may be a strange name, but what this system has to offer sends gaming evolution into a new era.
The year is 1659 and the Thirty Years’ War has just ended. There had not been a shred of witchcraft pandemonium in several decades, but all the years of peaceful silence come crashing to a bitter halt when a young boy is found gruesomely murdered and pulled from the river covered in the markings of witches.
Danielle Ferguson is an international student from Northern Ireland who received a scholarship from the British Consulate. The scholarship is called Study USA and is geared to give a business edge to students. Last year the scholarship offered 150 spots to fill, but this year the spots were cut down to 75 which led to Ferguson to be in a more competitive race for this scholarship. The scholarship is specifically for business, and those who receive the Study USA scholarship must take four business classes and one elective each semester so she will return to Northern Ireland with a new international edge in the business world.
