Spoiler alert, but not about the movie: I devour books like potato chips. “The Hunger Games” trilogy has not escaped my appetite. I read Suzanne Collins’ books in spring 2010, at the height of...

The world would be better if people paid more attention to those around them. “The truth is, it’s just paying attention to people and being there, not just with your body,” John Amaechi, a retired...

The Xavier Cintas Center was filled with over 10,250 spectators — completely sold out. Mount Saint Joseph University player Lauren Hill took the court for her first, and possibly last, time ever on Nov....

Imagine walking up to a podium, facing what feels like thousands (but more likely is only hundreds) of students, and delivering a speech you have just made up about a topic you know little about. This...

Very rarely do today’s players in Major League Baseball stay with the same team for their whole career but to stay with the same organization for twenty years is unheard of. Derek Jeter is a special...

At the first Gay Straight Alliance meeting of the school year, co-presidents Sophy Warner and Whitney Tyree gave club members a chance to say their names, grades and “their PGP’s — their preferred...

On a rainy May morning, at the storm drain behind the cafeteria, a mother duck stood helpless. All her ducklings were trapped beneath the iron grate, and she had no way of retrieving them. She eyed the...

Superintendent Gregory C. Hutchings said today that two students involved in a fight during class Wednesday will be recommended for expulsion. He also said two students filmed the fight and that they will...

Thanks to his last name, Ezra Zigmond has always been at the bottom of the class list. But in every other respect, he’s always been at the top. To my knowledge, he is the only member of our senior...

I scrolled through Twitter one early morning before school, taking time to see what I’d missed online while I slept. Like most mornings, several CNN tweets were waiting for me from the early hours in...

It’s not unusual for a teen girl to spend hundreds of dollars on a special dress for a big dance like Homecoming or Prom. And even then, she runs the risk of seeing other girls in the same dress...

John Mayer has been making a name for himself in music since the release of his first solo album, "Room for Squares," in 2001. He is a virtuoso guitarist, and he is admired for his thought-provoking, clever...

It was just a normal tournament that day as Nick Roth knocked down those pins in the first game. He totaled 245, which was exceptionally above his average of 195. He had an excellent game which he knew...

Ah, Thanksgiving. What better way to celebrate than a column about stealing? I always liked Ron Paul. While perhaps the most homophobic, anti-big government person I’d ever seen, I had a real...

It’s a scary thought; the loud, talented, and sometimes controversial band from Aberdeen, Wash., Nirvana, recorded their final album 20 years ago. To some, it seems like only yesterday when every...