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Sequestration Looms over Nation

Ethan Price, Features Editor March 14, 2013

On March 1, President Obama met with congressional leaders to work on a plan for the national budget and prevent the sequester, which would effect an $85 billion cut of federal programs. Both Republicans...

Ukulele Tutorial

Evan Rosser, Arts and Entertainment Editor March 12, 2013

Touhou, a Look into the Wonderful World of Gensokyo

Touhou, a Look into the Wonderful World of Gensokyo

Ethan Price, Features Editor March 12, 2013

Touhou, or Touhou Project, is a Japanese game series that consists of primarily curtain fire shooting games. It was created by the one-man developer and sole member of Team Shanghai Alice, Jun'ya Ota....

Bacterial Underworld in Antarctic

Bacterial Underworld in Antarctic

Evan Rosser, Arts and Entertainment Editor March 10, 2013

Antarctica’s Lake Vostok lies beneath nearly two and a half miles of ice, a frozen barrier that has kept the buried lake from the surface for millions of years.  In 2012, Russian scientists finally...

Making a Mouse into a Man?

Making a Mouse into a Man?

Kai Farley, Columnist March 10, 2013

Researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center have been experimenting with brain cells, transferring specific human brain cells (called glial progenitor cells, which influence memory formation...

Asteroids... Again

Asteroids… Again

Carter Robinson, Sports Editor March 9, 2013

On Saturday March 9th, 2013, at approximately 3:30 p.m. EST, an asteroid the size of a city block flew 37,282 miles from Earth at 26,000 miles per hour.  Unlike other asteroids in recent news, however,...

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Pope Steps Down

Colton Peters, Columnist February 27, 2013

In the working world, the goal of many people is to one day be able to retire and live out the rest of their days in relative peace. However, there are some careers out there where old age almost seems...

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Malala Fund

Alex Dockery, Senior Columnist / Photographer February 26, 2013

In October of 2012, Malala Yousafzai, a 15-year-old girl, and  passionate believer and spokeswoman for the education of girls in the Middle East, fell victim to a vicious Taliban attack. She believes...

Arizona Renaissance Festival

Arizona Renaissance Festival

Jaime Faulkner, Editor In Chief February 26, 2013

The Arizona Renaissance Festival is a yearly event that’s loved by many Arizonans.  Tucked away at the base of the Superstition Mountains, an empty village full of shacks, steeples, and turrets await...

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True Love and a Kidney

Josh Taylor, Senior Columnist February 26, 2013

On February 11th, in Jacksonville, Tennessee, a mere three days before Valentine’s Day,  Melissa DeGeso-Jones donated one of her kidneys to her husband, James Jones. Jones had been suffering from renal...

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