HIGHLAND BEACH, Fla.-For the past week, Palm Beach has been leading a double life. For most of the year, it's a place where the rich and famous, such as Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey, dwell in pink mansions built on castle-like scale atop the sandy lip of the Atlantic.
Early Saturday morning, many first-year students awoke to a frenetic banging on the doors of their suites accompanied by loud, disgruntled shouts.
I know you're tired of hearing about it, but like every journalist (I use that term loosely) I am contractually obligated to talk about this year's presidential election.
Children of War Third-year College student Camila Figueroa and third-year Commerce student Federico Avila have been friends since pre-kindergarten.
As the minute hand on the clock ticked closer to the hour, an anticipatory hush fell over the crowd.
Last week, trick-or-treaters of all ages transformed themselves into witches and warlocks, haunting the hallowed Grounds of the University.
Dance Confessions "Confessions of a dancer" appears to be a typical dance recital on a superficial level.
Duner's doesn't take reservations, so show up early. Even on a Monday night, nearly every table at Duner's was taken.
Name: Key Richardson Year/School: First-year College Most unusual class: The History of Mr. Jefferson's University.
On the eve of the election (or, rather, on the first eve of the election), it was refreshing to know that Mr. Jefferson's dream of democracy is alive and well at the University.
WASHINGTON-Rushing up and down the Metro escalators, people from all walks of life scurried off to their respective corners of the metropolitan area.
WASHINGTON-In striking contrast to the drab, any-other-day-of-the-year feel in the nation's capital during the day, election fever hit the bar scene hard once the sun went down. Clyde's of Georgetown represented the epitome of the final struggle between the two parties, with all eyes turned to the bar-side TV for the latest results. "It's crazy over there," a Clyde's waitress told a group of patrons wandering in.
(This is the second in a four-part weekly series on dating and relationships at the University.) In the long sequence of life's experiences, "boy and girl get married," often falls sometime after school is finished.
Signs of forgiveness For many University students, the next coolest thing to hanging posters of "Animal House" star John Belushi on bleak apartment walls is covering them with stolen street signs. Now there is redemption. The University Police are sponsoring an amnesty for any University student possessing street, traffic or highway signs.
I recently moved in with my boyfriend and things already aren't going very well. The problem is that he always has to know where I am, where I'm going and who I am with at all times.
Green and blue rectangular signs with white blocky letters peek out from student dorm rooms around Grounds.
Indian Summer Who ever heard of wearing shorts in November? For the past two weeks, students have been able to stroll around Grounds in T-shirts and shorts during the unseasonably warm days, then forced to don heavy sweaters and long pants during the frigid evenings. Environmental Sciences Asst.
I've been pegged as a cynic too many times lately - an appellation met with skepticism and scorn, followed by sneering.
Wild concert sells out Mem Gym The shadows of the Central Grounds Parking Garage casted down upon the small group huddled in the alleyway between the garage and Memorial Gymnasium Saturday evening. The group of floridly dressed people pointed their fingers high in the air, desperately seeking tickets to String Cheese Incident's 8 p.m.
