Last Thursday evening, in the Saul O Sidore Lecture Series, Professor Henry Dietz gave a lecture on Latin American society to 50 students and local residents congregated in the Silver Cultural Arts Center Recital Hall. After approximately forty-five minutes of lecturing, Mr. Dietz opened up the floor to questions. Many […]

Today marks the end of this year’s Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read. Observed the last week in September every year, its purpose is for Americans to rejoice in our First Amendment freedom of speech. Schools, bookshops, and libraries all across the country participate in the celebration of […]

#8220;Perhaps that is why music is within people: so they are not afraid, so they can be closer to one another, so they can find themselves in each other.” Marketa Prochaskova This is the last stanza from “The Message of Music,” a poem printed on the back of the program […]

License plates from as far away as Colorado clustered in various factions in Silver’s parking lot this past Saturday. Every seat of Hanaway Theater sold out for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band concert, and the audience bristled with collective anticipation in the moments before eight o’clock. The band took the […]

In Dallas Texas, The United States Department of Agriculture is fighting to close down Supreme Beef Processors, a meat supplier for Wal-Mart. Over an eight month period of testing, 20% of the products were found to contain salmonella. In the past, E. Coli has also been detected in Supreme Beef […]

The newly-renovated Boyd Science Center has been up and running for over a year. One of the buildings most distinguishing features is the jagged profile of expensive-looking equipment crowning the Judd Gregg Meteorological Institute. I spoke with Dr. Eric Hoffman, Assistant Professor of Meteorology, to get an inside glance at […]

They’re cute. They’re colorful. They can pummel large insects to the ground in under five seconds. So begins another chapter in the world of Captain Olimar and his flowery cohorts in Nintendo’s Pikmin 2, the bizarre but addictive sequel to the 2001 hit, Pikmin. It’s been three years since Nintendo […]

I very rarely enjoy the performance of a child actor. Everything seems too fake and overacted. It often seems as though the children just memorize their lines and recite them for the camera. Overall, it’s just not believable. Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury, and Laura Monaghan have changed that. Their stunning […]

On Wednesday, September 8th, a memorial Open Mic poetry reading was held in the Hub Fireplace Lounge where friends and family gathered to celebrate the memory of Kevin Young, the outgoing PSU student who was lost to us on May 20th, 2004 when he tragically drowned while tubing in the […]

Sunday, September 19, brought the debut of this year’s Eagle Pond Authors’ Series with “Peeling More Poems” hosted by poets Donald Hall, Charles Simic and Cynthia Huntington.The Series is named in honor of Hall, who lives at Eagle Pond Farm in Wilmot, New Hampshire, and also serves as the series’ […]