Culture Articles
RHA helps students settle into college life
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Picture this: While taking notes in class, you drop your pen on your lap and it leaves a long, blue line. You're feeling famished after a long day of classes and yearn for a fast fix to satisfy your hunger. Your shoes are caked with mud after hiking from the parking garage to class in the rain.
Column: Cheap Thrills
Weekly insight into cheap entertainment in St. Louis
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Weekly insight into cheap entertainment in St. Louis BY ANDREA NOBLE Journal Staff A surprise can be a great thing. Finding $20 on the ground, receiving flowers when it isn't even your birthday, having your STD tests come back negative - all splendorous surprises.
Domestication 101: Tips for College Living
Recipe for Easy Microwave Fudge Ingredients: * 12 oz. semi-sweet chocolate chips * 1 can Eagle Brand Milk * 2 heaping tablespoons of peanut butter How to make it: Place chocolate chips and milk in microwave-safe bowl. Cook on high for 5 minutes. Remove from microwave, stir in 2 heaping tablespoons of peanut butter.
Volunteers build houses: no experience necessary
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Habitat for Humanity builds houses for families in need, and some Webster students have gotten into the act. Webster University Habitat for Humanity started in the spring of 2002, and though it's grown, few seem to know about the organization. "It's a good way to get involved with the community," said Erik Shelquist, a senior and member of the group.
Film exposes FOX News as right-wing propaganda machine
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"Fair and balanced" is Fox News network's slogan. It only takes five minutes of viewing Robert Greenwald's film "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism" to show that the practices of the network are anything but. The documentary features interviews with media analysts and network producers while splicing in footage of Fox shows like "The O'Reilly Factor" to drive home its points on the network's bias.
Photos capture decay, hope in small Missouri town
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The scenario may be familiar to students from small towns in Missouri and Illinois. What was once an idyllic farm community has become a place where no one wants to be. One grocery chain takes the business of all the other stores, and all the young people flee to a large city.
