In response to the lives that were tragically lost at Virginia Tech University on Monday, April 16, ISU organizations and students banded together and organized two events in remembrance and solidarity. The first of the two events, held at 4:30 p.m. on the Quad, was jointly planned by Student Government Association, the Association of Residence Halls and the University Program Board.… Post the First Comment

The eighth annual four square marathon sponsored by the Theatre of Ted this weekend broke several records. "We went a total of 62 hours for the marathon which ran from 5 p.m. on Wednesday to 7 a.m. on Saturday," Keith Habersberger, coordinator for the marathon and sophomore acting major, said.… Post the First Comment

Bees are an essential part of the world we live in. Possibly due to radiation given off by some technological devices, bees are being wiped out. Some scientists are putting forth a theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to why bees are disappearing.… 1 Comment

Ana Breton Daily Utah Chronicle (U. Utah) (U-WIRE) SALT LAKE CITY - Although it has been a week since the Virginia Tech massacre, Korean students at the University of Utah still fear they might be targeted by the public because their ethnicity matches that of Cho Seung-Hui, the student responsible for shooting and killing 32 people.… Post the First Comment

Every 17 years, a periodical cicada emergence occurs in the Northern Illinois Brood of cicadas. According to Doug Whitman, ISU biology professor, a cicada is an insect that lives most of its life underground sucking on tree roots. While some species stay underground for 17 years, some locusts, often confused with a cicada, come out every year in Bloomington-Normal.… Post the First Comment

In an effort to make their voices and opinions heard, students assembled on the Quad from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Monday in protest of the current war in Iraq. The protest was entirely conceived, organized and publicized by freshman sociology major Monika Thelen.… Post the First Comment

Jessica Durando Daily Targum (Rutgers) (U-WIRE) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. - Prepared. Focused. Formidable. Ruth Mandel, the director of Eagleton Institute of Politics, used these words to describe Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton when introducing her last Friday to a crowd of more than 700 people in Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus.… Post the First Comment