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Four-year-olds. They can be kind of annoying. They’re always asking “why?” Why is the sky blue? Why can’t I fly? Why does the cut hurt? Each of us was once an annoying four year-old, incessantly curious about every little thing. But something happens between age four and college. Many of […]
Most people make a New Year’s resolution whether it is to lose weight, study better or finally go for that promotion they have been nervous asking for. My resolution is to be more like Graham Hughes. Graham is the man who has seemingly done it all now. He has travelled […]
Many Americans used their day off Monday to serve others in celebration and recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Meanwhile, the students at John Brown University sat in class. MLK day is nationally recognized as a day to serve your neighbors and communities. King once said, “Life’s most persistent […]
For me, the best part of the inauguration was not seeing the president. On Monday morning I woke up around 4:30, dressed at the pace of a slug then left my nice warm apartment to head to Union Station. My roommates, my neighbor and I had decided there was no […]
The fall of 2012 marked a record semester for The Threefold Advocate. And when we say record, we are not talking about readership or number of ‘likes’ on Facebook. Fall of 2012 was a record semester because we received not one single letter to the editor. Looking back on the […]
Recently, a project I assigned my Consumer Behavior class received some attention in the Threefold. I am the instructor who had students plan their funeral as part of an integrated learning experience in marketing. I didn’t know about the article when it first came out but a colleague of mine […]
As my friend Sarah and I approached the Walker dorm doors nearest the Health Complex on Monday evening, I nearly giggled with excitement. Despite my status as a senior, I had never seen this side of the festivities which are known on campus as Walker Winter Wonderland. The reason? Simple […]
Hi, everybody. Today I want to talk about something very near and dear to my heart and, I daresay, the hearts of hundreds of students who attend our fair university. I am, of course, referring to shoes. Don’t you love shoes? I know I can’t see a pair of retro […]
It seems to me that holidays bring out the idiosyncrasies in people. Take my mother, for instance. She’s allergic to smoke and pine, so we’ve always had an artificial Christmas tree. Every Christmas it was my father’s responsibility to set up the tree, my mother’s to light the tree, and […]
Day one did not go according to plan. While on my first assignment covering a story on a recent trip to the Subiaco Abbey, I accidently “misplaced” my reporter’s notebook. Refusing the idea of looking stupid and asking for another interview, I committed an unforgivable cardinal sin: I recited everything […]