Lisa Vasapollo, Features Editor
December 9, 2011
I believe in love, karma, manners, aliens and dinosaurs. I believe Elvis is alive and that impossible is nothing. I believe the Jets are good at football and everything happens for a reason. I believe most people in this world can do more to help. I believe in not stereotyping, best friends, and family coming ...
December 1, 2011
Written in Syracuse, Greece in the third century B.C., deposited by an anonymous collector at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore in 1998, and presented in a slideshow here at McDaniel earlier this month by at the annual Phi Beta Kappa lecture, a book that came to be known as the “Archimedes Palimpsest” certainly had ...
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Trevor Hammond, Contributor
November 30, 2011
Statistics show that there are between 143 million and 210 million orphans worldwide today. Studies have shown that each year, approximately 14 million of those children worldwide grow up and age out of orphanages by approximately 18 years of age. In Russia and the Ukraine, 60% of the girls become prostitutes, and 70% of the ...
November 30, 2011
Dr. Stephanie Madsen, Chair of the Psychology Department, claims to have the “best job on campus.” Not only does she get to oversee a good population of the student community as an advisor, but she interacts with many other faculty members, staff, and alumni in the McDaniel College community. Dr. Madsen loves “to connect with ...
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November 29, 2011
The atmosphere in the Richwine room was ideal for Jim Minick’s poetry reading. The sunlight streaming through the curtains and onto the friendly faces in the room created an environment that was comfortable and warm; contrasting to the chill of the autumn air outside of the library. Jim Minick, poet and blueberry farmer, returned to ...
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November 24, 2011
For professor emeritus of English Dr. LeRoy Panek, retirement is by no means synonymous with abandoning academic work. In fact, he just finished his tenth book, titled “Before Sherlock Holmes: How Magazines and Newspapers Invented the Detective Story.” Of his newest work, Dr. Panek explains, “This book essentially rewrites the history of American detective fiction ...
Tags: American detective fiction, Detective stories, Dr. LeRoy Panek, Dr. Mary Bendel-Simso, Sherlock Holmes, Westminster Detective LibraryFeatures