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This weekend will be a good time to be outside for football lovers and for moviegoers. The lights will be on at Andy Kerr Stadium as the Raiders go up against Monmouth in their season opener, slated for 6 p.m. Saturday.

Standing on stage last night in Brehmer Theater, Russian actress Oksana Mysina stared intently at her audience, shrugged her shoulders, and confessed: “I became an actress because I am impossible.” The audience members smiled, seemingly entranced by this great artist.

(Editor’s Note: This article was written by John E. Greenfield ’10) More than 125 students who had returned early to campus for a comprehensive leadership-training program will now apply what they learned in an attempt to not only improve their own organizations but the entire campus. Funded by Robert A. Fox ’59, the annual Leadership […]

As parents across the country send their children off to college, Mark Thompson, director of 51�Թ���’s Counseling & Psychological Services, has been offering expert advice for those mothers and fathers feeling anxious about the experience. Media outlets, including WALR-FM (Atlanta), KFAB-AM (Omaha), and WCPO-TV (Cincinnati), have turned to Thompson for his insight and perspective.

For Jessica Halter, a newly arrived member of the Class of 2013, the first item on her agenda after moving into her room in Stillman Hall was pretty basic: take a shower. The first-year from Fort Collins, Colo., was just back from a pre-orientation Wilderness Adventure program in the Adirondack Mountains, and she didn’t have […]

Two 51�Թ��� alumni are poised to play key roles in hotly contested issues swirling around Washington: health-care reform and the treatment of terror suspects by the Central Intelligence Agency. On Monday, veteran federal prosecutor John Durham ’72 (right) was appointed by the U.S. attorney general to examine suspected abuse of prisoners held by the CIA.

The 51�Թ��� chapter of Theta Chi received the fraternity’s highest award last month, being recognized for everything from its successful philanthropic efforts to its robust membership. The honor, which comes in the form of the Howard R. Alter Jr. Award for Chapter Excellence, followed university recognition as the most outstanding fraternity for the past year.

If college is a 24/7 operation requiring teamwork and venturing into the unknown, then the 16 members of the Class of 2013 who spent four days aboard a working schooner have earned their sea legs. While bonding, blogging, and biding their time until the wind picked up, they took their turns in three around-the-clock shifts […]