The horses disappear as my carriage slowly rolls to a stop, its wheels collapse, and its light blue color morphs into a familiar orange. I realize my fairytale is over,…
On May 15, 1986, the Associated Press (AP) published a two-paragraph press release honoring three men in Moscow. Alexi Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov and Boris Baranov willingly volunteered to save half…
Ifthere was anything you noticed right away, it was the fact that he loved to dance. Blake Hunter was both my friend and my choreography instructor. He was a fire…
We are all getting out of the groove of Christmas break, and if you are anything like me, you spent most of your break sleeping until 2 p.m. and watching…
“Clogging” is a word associated with several ideas: wooden shoes, Irish dancing and toilets are ones that I hear a lot. For me, it is a part of life, as…
I’m going to be a better person. Not long ago you took a good, hard look at yourself, made note of all the imperfections riddling your personality and pledged to…
I was sitting around a fire with my friends the Saturday night after Blake Hunter’s death that morning. We were waffling between small talk and big talk — cheerful talk…
Each semester, the American Studies Institute (ASI) hosts several speakers as a part of its Distinguished Lecture Series. The first event of this semester, titled “Exploring Race Relations: An Honest…
The residents of Flint, Michigan, unknowingly drank lead-poisoned water for two years until President Barack Obama declared a state of emergency on Jan. 16, 2016, according to a CNN report.…
Friends and family of missing flight attendant Sierra Shields have reached out to the public for help in finding the woman who disappeared from her workplace earlier this month. Shields…