-Alex Woodruff

For this week’s column I thought I would list some of the current events going on in America and around the world. I know it is hard to stay connected to the news when we are in college, but it is important to know what is going around us.
The Yankees take home the World Series title.
Three softball players from Dickinson State were found dead in a
shallows lake last week.
In Cleveland, Ohio police have found 11 bodies in the house of Anthony Sowell, a convicted serial rapist.

-Holly Newton

Cliques, rumors, rampant immaturity, poor communication among staff and students; it’s high school all over again here, but one academic feature in particular has stuck out to me over the years: attendance policies.

High school attendance is required by law, until a certain age at least, so I understand the need for enduring all those daily roll calls. But in college, too? Really?

-Joe Sharp

Today people will tell you that stock market investing is the equivalent of throwing your money into a black hole. I’m here to tell you that it isn’t and that you could actually multiply your money.
With the market at an all-time low, it’s easy to see where people get the misconception that investing is a bad idea. However, there are many golden eggs hidden in the vast jumble of losses. You just have to learn how to find them.

April Baumgarten

Unless you live under a rock, you have probably heard about the H1N1 virus A.K.A the swine flu, According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, swine flu stories took up over 40 percent of the airtime in May, and it still is featured as a top story. Here is my question. Has the media and officials overblown this so-called epidemic? It is not bad to take precautions, but to some extent, I would say yes.

-Tim Ranum

The month of October is a special month for sports fans. In just four short weeks sports fans can watch the entire MLB playoffs, the meat of the college football season and, of course, watch my favorite team, the Kansas City Chiefs, lose four more games.

People – students, professors, most everyone – do too much. Let me rephrase that. People try to do too much. People are doing and getting involved in more and more things these days, but they usually end up failing most of them, hence the important placement of the word “try.”

I’m not advocating laziness or suggesting people become uninvolved in their communities. I’m saying people need to know their limits and then stop when they reach those limits.

-Brandon Boese

It is a busy time for Student Senate, and in case you haven’t noticed, it’s Homecoming Week! The Senate Homecoming committee has been working very hard to make Homecoming week an enjoyable time for everyone. If you haven’t gotten in on the excitement, you still have a few days left. Frederick Winters will host a night full of laughs tonight, and Dude Walker will DJ a rockin’ dance to close out the week on Saturday night.

-Bill Heinzen

-Alex Woodruff

Well, for my last article for the year I wanted to make it a good one that would help the lovely college students out there get a little healthier or at least attempt to be healthier. So, I decided to write about something we all know is beneficial for our health but that we all tend to ignore: The benefits of eating vegetables and fruit more often than we consume carbohydrates and meat.

-Jarann Johnson

Most JC students and, surprisingly, a few faculty members enjoy playing intramural sports. Everyone knows about the coveted intramural T-shirts, or as the new reigning division one basketball champs Nice Guys Don’t Finish Last call them, “cotton.”

-April Baumgarten

I always hated sitting in class and listening to teachers brag about how great a certain student was. The student always got A’s, but we all knew it wasn’t because she was smart. Everyone has experienced favoritism at some point in their life. Whether it’s for them or against them, it happens in high school and college. Maybe it is time to just deal with it.

-Ryan Fitts

Despite all the differences among us graduating seniors there is one gloomy similarity we all share. Most of us are about to enter one of the toughest job markets ever. As I write this article on a Saturday morning it is only fitting that CNN run the latest unemployment poll that bolsters a staggering 8.5 percent, a 25-year high.

-Jarann Johnson

All students and faculty were a part of the Jimmie Jive mayhem whether they liked it or not. Water assassinations brought out the evil in faculty and students alike. I think the game and events did more than entertain the campus. It forced students and faculty to interact with people they normally would not.

-Will Oren

Volunteers from all over the area can be seen catching a bus ride or driving down to the Jamestown Civic Center to help with the sandbagging efforts. Operations at the civic center began on April 2 and planned to continue to today. With all the volunteering taking place the question is, are these people taking time off of work or school?

-Jenna Tews

The four years that I have been in college I have tried to go to class on a regular basis. Yes, I have missed class here and there because of sickness or other events, but usually I make it to class. A couple weeks ago, one of my professors called and woke me up to tell me I was late for my midterm. You can imagine my thoughts as I rushed out the door. Not only was I late, but my professor took the time to make sure I was able to take my test.