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March 20, 2025 Vol 121

Year: 2013

World Leaders Pay Respect at Mandela’s Funeral

Dignitaries from around the world flew to South Africa on Tuesday, December 10, to commemorate the life of former South…

Men’s Basketball to Play Against Division I

This winter break the men’s varsity basketball team will be up against a competitive rival, Radford University, in their upcoming…

Caffeinated Creative Studios: For Your Design Fix

The half coffee cup of the “Caffeinated Creative Studios” (CCS) logo has popped up on most of the campus’s bulletin…

Album Review: Five Iron Frenzy, “Engine of a Million Plots”

Five Iron Frenzy. The band’s name honors a golf club swinging paranoiac. Its albums have names like All the Hype…

Movie Review: “Thor: The Dark World”

Before diving into the actual film itself, can we just take a moment to admire the genius that is behind…

Houghton’s Best Kept Secret: Reference Librarians

Although the Willard J. Houghton Library may be a familiar place for most students, often the reference desk goes unnoticed…

Two Views: Is free-market capitalism good and just?

While I agree with Joe Gilligan’s point that free market capitalism has benefitted society through encouraging innovation and thereby increasing…

Two Views: Is free-market capitalism good and just?

Each day we participate in the most just and free market system in the world. The iPhone we bought to talk…

Death, Joy, and Christmastime

Christmas (or Hanukkah or Kwanzaa etc., but for my purposes Christmas), is fast approaching. School has a tendency to push…

College Receives NetVUE Grant

Houghton recently received a $50,000 grant for networking for vocation in undergraduate education. This grant was given to Houghton by…