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“Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney?” Newt Gringrich responded with this provocative question after Mitt Romney stated his life’s passions: his family, his faith and his country. His statement might have been a plea to end Romney’s periodic mention of religion,...

Hey Everyone! As, hopefully, most of you know Peer Help has a question box located in the Counseling office. We cover topics that include mental and physical health, depression, suicide, and sexual health. So, feel free to ask us questions pertaining to these topics. However...

While images in the world of social media most often consist of cats or what your acquaintance had for dinner last night, there’s another photo trend taking root in Internet culture: the selfie. Taking selfies, or photographs of one’s self, has undergone a kind of...

Look around your classroom: it’s sixth period, and most of the class would rather have left already. The lights are off, the blinds are drawn, and a movie is playing on the projector, grainy footage of something that happened before your parents were born accompanied...

On May 10, Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the American novel The Great Gatsby debuted worldwide. This much-anticipated event brought out many contradicting views as critics obsessed over how Luhrmann could possibly adapt this classic. Luhrmann, known for his direction of Moulin Rouge and Romeo +...

My favorite thing about Tony Stark, in any Iron Man movie, is that his superpower is literally being really a smart engineer. He works out a bit, sure, and fights very well in his famous suit, but what actually saves the day (from a traditional...