For some college students, a typical weekend activity involves sitting around the coffee table and passing a waterpipe, legally. Hookah smoking among college students has increased in recent years, which has many health officials worried about the health risks and the potential for further tobacco addiction. "It ...
She stops homework to spin a rifle. She pirouettes down hallways. When her art teacher asked her to bring an object to class that described her, Moser brought her saber. While some students are going to spend their summer tanning with friends or typing with colleagues, University of Memphis junior Brandi ...
Experiments and learning are not limited to the classroom in college. Students sometimes experiment with drugs or learn how much alcohol they can ingest and still make their 8 a.m. English class. Sometimes these trials can lead to charges or investigations by The University, things that would not make ...
The Tennessee legislature reviewed a new bill that will grant pharmacists the option to refuse to fill any prescription with which they have a moral, ethical or religious disagreement. Some pharmacies, like Walgreens, already allow their pharmacist to make judgment calls, according to Carol Hively, ...
They got the members. They got the papers. They got approval. But when students involved with the new Registered Student Organization, The Claws and Stripes, asked for operational funding from the Student Activities Council, they got rejected. When he began forming a new political organization on The ...
They started their spring break heading into a sunrise as strangers. They ended it six days later heading in to a sunset as friends. Friends who had made a difference in lives they would never know about. "This is the first sunrise I've seen in a while," Andrew Reese said as he drove away from The University ...
Heads nodded, hands clapped and feet tapped the floor of The Rose Theatre last night while four talented dancers from California spun and shook to a mixture of live music, beat-box and rap. The dancers of DREAM (Destiny: Redefining Education through Art and Movement) came to The University of Memphis ...
The unusually warm weather lately has encouraged some to enjoy lunch or coffee outside, but a recent survey in Men's Fitness magazine showed Memphians should put down that fried chicken and do something active in the sunshine. Memphis was ranked the fourth fattest city in America in 2005, up from number ...
When theater actually works, it has the power to change your life, according to Ellen McLaughlin, author of "Iphigenia and Other Daughters," which opens at The University of Memphis MainStage next week. McLaughlin and actress Kathleen Chalfant spoke Thursday at the theater department's bi-weekly meeting ...
At least twice a year University of Memphis students walk into a new classroom and are confronted with a new teacher and a new teaching style. But there is a way to find out what to expect before class. Two Web sites are available for students to not only read evaluations on their prospective teachers, ...
