FeaturesNo Shave NovemberHairy and scruffy are the look of the month as young men on college campuses nation wide put down their razors and partake in the nationwide movement known as No Shave November, according to Hello Magazine. The growing cultural phenomenon encourages young men, and even women, to test their will power to resist shaving.Africa cracks, may form new seaA 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia, a chasm nearly 20 feet across at certain points, will eventually split the African continent, and form a new sea about one million years from now, according to a recent article in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.Hopwood and Carnegie turn 100This month the grand dames of our campus, Hopwood and Carnegie Halls, will turn one hundred. For their age, they are in remarkable shape. [That is what tender loving care will do for one.] Since I have a good part of the last fifty years in Hopwood Hall, I shall wish her happy birthday first.V and the human buffetAs I write this, it's only been minutes since I watched the pilot for the new ABC science fiction series V and I've got to say that I'm already worried. The special effects are good. I think the alien ship that travels to Earth has intriguing internal and external designs and that little ball robot thing that attacked the human resistance meeting late in the pilot episode was cool (my pet name for that ball is "Phantasm 2.Music Department prepares for Concerto competitionThe Lynchburg College music department will hold its second annual Concerto competition this Friday. The competition will involve a vocal and instrumental selection group with up to 19 undergraduate students competing against each other.House passes health care reform billThe US House of Representatives passed a health care reform bill on Saturday, Nov. 9, by a vote of 220-215.D.C.-area sniper executedD.C.-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed by lethal injection on Tuesday evening. Muhammad was pronounced dead at 9:11 p.m. at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt, Va., south of Richmond.L.C. in History: back from breakThis column has not been in print for two weeks because it took me that long to recover from fall break. In actual fact I was helping my wife, Dr. Dorothy Potter, print and pack her manuscript for shipment to Lehigh University Press. However fall break actually has a very interesting history. Dr. James Price was responsible for the development of "Discovery Weekend," an opportunity for students and faculty to explore sometime outside the classroom halfway through the first semester. Dean James Huston endorsed the concept and the faculty approved the idea. Unfortunately "Discovery Weekend" quickly became "Fall Break" when we all discover how late we are able to sleep each morning. It is also a chance to go home and discover that your mother's casseroles were not so bad after all, and that your siblings have improved ever so slightly since August.Holiday gifts for nerdsThe heck with Thanksgiving, now that Halloween is over, it's time to begin thinking about holiday shopping. Whatever Annual Gift Day you celebrate, nerds take advance planning. Here are some "Living With Nerds" tips: Karzai re-elected as Afghan president amid controversyAmid controversy, Hamid Karzai was re-elected president of Afghanistan on Monday, Nov. 2. A U.N.-backed panel of election monitors declared Karzai the winner after his opponent, former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, withdrew because he said the vote would not be free or fair, according to an article in The National newspaper. More work for all? Faculty votes for curriculum changeA curriculum change proposal passed 91 to 58 by Lynchburg College faculty on Oct. 2. This revision has five goals that will be used in every course taught at LC. A task force of LC faculty, led by English Professor Dr. Richard Burke, proposed this revision to the undergraduate curriculum. |
