Kyle Horst

Much more planning goes into new orientation than most students may realize. The Office of Student Life and Leadership starts preparing in February by setting the dates for the fall semester orientation dates and hiring a set of orientation leaders.
The hiring and planning phases are conducted by the Orientation Planning committee, which consists of three students and two faculty members from Student Life and Leadership.

Get crazy. Go wild. The University Dining Services offers students an opportunity to create the first 'Patriot Burger' through an online survey and start a tradition for the renovated University Center.

The 'Patriot Burger Throwdown' an online through Surveymonkey is being put on by Dining Services Director Shannon P. Mariani and marketing intern Meredith Jones.

In a new type of comedy that can be described as a “bromance,” Paul Rudd finds that his character has not best friend before his wedding, even more so he has no male friends at all.

Rudd, who plays Peter Klaven, a real estate agent who gets along with women better than he does men. After coming home early one night and walking in on his fiancées bachelorette party, he overhears the ladies talking about who the best man will be. Point and case, Klaven has no friends.

Based of the novel Twilight, the screenplay adaptation on the book left me indifferent.

The story begins when Bella Swan, a high school junior, moves in with her dad after her mother remarries. Her mother lives in Phoenix, her father in Forks, Washington, one of the wettest places on the continental Untied States.

On her first day at school, Bella meets many new people; only one person sticks out in her mind though: Edward Cullen.

Edward is a foster child in the community of Forks, with his two brothers and two sisters.

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Runtime: 15 tracks, 55:50

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Eight years after the last album, Stiff Upper Lip, was released in 2000 the Australian rock band, idolized for their immense fame in the 1980s, releases their latest album Black Ice.

The so called single from the album, “Rock ‘n Roll Train,” released a month before the album piqued my interest in the band again and I eagerly awaited the release of the full album.

My hopes were quickly dashed when I bought the album however.

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118 Min

Hollywood award winner Shia LaBeouf stars in yet another science fiction thriller titled “Eagle Eye.”

Jerry Shaw, a college dropout and perpetual loner, goes to the ATM one day to deposit a check and finds his account went from less than $100 to $715,000 overnight. Upon returning to his apartment, Shaw finds numerous boxes, crates, and barrels filled with fake passports, classified documents, weapons, and ammonium nitrate, which is used in improvised explosives.

Works of art created by members of the University’s art faculty are on display in the Meadows Gallery in the R. Don Cowan Fine and Performing Arts Center until Oct. 3.

The 2008 Art Faculty Exhibition features artwork created by faculty within the Department of Art and Art History. They are Gary C. Hatcher, Sue Duran, Dewane Hughes, Philana Oliphant, James R. Pace, Alexis Serio, Merrie Wright and gallery coordinator Ray Sikes.