Andrew Latham

Well, you made it. For a lot of you, this was the successful completion of your first semester away at college.

Along the way, I’m sure that you discovered new ways books can torture and doubtlessly discovered some professor who seemed to conspire to make your life miserable, but none of that matters. In a few days, you’ll be whisked away to your real homes and the family you gleefully left to come to college. Wonderful, right?

Like every Halloween season, haunted houses have returned to the Tyler area to provide entertainment to University students and surrounding community.

Preparations are underway at University Pines Apartments, where the Director of Marketing and Sales Toby Wilkerson explained construction was taking place inside the club house.

University Pines has provided a haunted house in past years, but this year things will be a little different, Wilkerson said.

I’m sure many individuals on our campus have dreamed of being dogs in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

The country’s well-known policy of quarantining pets and giving them monitoring chips may be familiar to students.

Well, thanks to the Food and Drug Administration, you too may one day be allowed to have a computer chip lodged within you for an assortment of purposes.

As a child I never had the desire to be friends with my teachers. To be honest, I hadn’t really figured out they were human beings yet. I merely assumed they were knowledge-dispensing automatons that recharged over the summers due to “fun” allergies that prevented them from venturing outside the schools.

Times have changed. My teachers and I correspond with one another through email, Facebook and even face-to-face outside of class.