When the University decided to get a woman’s lacrosse team last year, expectations were not set. While there were some recruits, some of the girls who tried out had never even picked up a lacrosse stick before. It was a struggle right from the beginning.
Led by senior captains Nick Brothers and Justin Foster, the golf team is well balanced. Three seniors look to higher their individual scores and graduate on a positive note: the two captains along with Rick Briggs.
Tennis season is underway, and the Lions are looking better than ever. Having made the regional final last year, the coaching staff and the team are eager and ready to get on the courts and get those points.
Feb. 1 marks the beginning of Black History Month. During this time, many African American heroes are remembered for their achievements and legacies. The celebration began early when it dedicated a memorial to the first Black student that attended the University on Martin Luther King Day. Students and staff express their thoughts on the month.
On Monday, Feb. 4, Lea Morris took her audience from the island Jamaica to the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Protests of the 1960s.
Many of us are a bit uncomfortable with the feeling of having a needle wedged into their body. That is why researchers at MIT have been working to perfect a syringe that can inject fluid without the painful stick of a needle.
Last week lawmakers in the British Parliaments’ House of Commons overwhelmingly passed a bill in support of same sex marriages. In a landslide of 400 for and 175 against, the bill passed and is now awaiting the approval of the House of Lords the second house in British parliament. The bill proposed by the Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron meet with opposition form his own party, with 136 of his constituents opposing the bill, 127 for it, and 35 abstain. But despite The divided Conservative party, the Labour Party and Liberal Democrat vote brought the high majority which was more than ample for the bill to pass.
On Feb. 7, the women’s athletic teams gathered to celebrate and to honor the accomplishments of girls and women in sports.
A small meteorite exploded near the Russian town of Chelyabinsk, just as DA14, an asteroid that is 150 feet wide was set to pass nearby earth. The meteorite did not break off of DA14, it was the remains of a much smaller object that entered earth’s atmosphere. The importance of this is that this meteorite was one of the countless number of small space debris that is not tracked.
Just seven months after Egypt’s first free democratic election, protesters are calling for the complete resignation of President Mohammed Morsi and his officials.