Rate of hook-ups increases

Technology that makes life easier and education more effective? The College's Information Technology Department has been working towards such a destination.

According to Dennis Abersold, associate provost for Information Technology, the department has made several changes over the past two years, including a shift toward customer service and the current development of several innovative new projects.





Confusion Corner: Honesty not quite the best policy

The truth can sometimes be a funny thing. Especially when you make it up.

Now, I know what you're saying, "Jon, the truth CAN'T be made up, silly. Then it wouldn't be the truth!"

I learned a very important lesson this past weekend from my brother. He taught me that when all traces of reality dissipate, or those little things called 'memories' begin to fade away, I should simply extract the stories from other people's lives or episodes of the Simpsons.





Enlightening the way

Imagine sitting in a very dark, still cave for an hour. Imagine no light, no sound and no motion, all the while commanding yourself not to think. This is the practice of meditation, as taught by a man called Shri Shri Shri Shivabalayogi Maharaj, a yogi who hails from Agra, India. His devotees affectionately call him Swamiji.



Museum acquires original Matisse

The work of the French artist Henri Matisse hangs in such impressive institutions as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Now, thanks to the donation of benefactor Gertrude Perrin, the Muscarelle Museum is one of the few institutions that can boast a Matisse as part of its permanent collection.



Brass statues on display

The Muscarelle Museum of Art's History, Identity and a Sense of Place. Room debuted three sculptures by the reknowned 20th-century artist Paul Manship on August 28.

The sculptures have been lent to the museum by the Smithsonian Institutionšs National Museum of American Art, while the building is undergoing an extensive renovation.

Muscarellešs second floor Graves Gallery has the Manship sculptures on display in the Sense of Place Room for the three-year duration of the renovation.



Student bikers go the distance

They are the first to assert that they are not "hard-core" bikers. Yet three juniors, Katie Hodgdon, Katie Martin and Barbara Francis, spent almost their entire summer biking across the United States.

"I wanted to do something unique," Martin said.



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