Gather 'round the holiday tree. Get ready to grin and bear the office seasonal festival -- the politically correct holiday season is here again. Though holiday symbols like Christmas trees, menorahs and nativity scenes are as ubiquitous to Americans as the golden arches, such symbols are becoming increasingly ...
President George W. Bush finished a two-day working trip to Canada Wednesday in an effort to warm relations between Canada and the United States -- the first such visit in almost a decade. "Beyond the words of politicians and the natural disagreements nations will have, our two peoples are one family ...
It's been almost two years since The University of Memphis received its first pair of Segway scooters, but the thrill hasn't gone away for physical plant employees. "Everyday you hop on its exciting -- it's like a motorcycle," said James Cantrell, a student employee in the Physical Plant's electronic ...
Tennessee ranks in the bottom 10 of three recent surveys quantifying different aspects of life. In surveys ranking states on education, quality of life and safety from crime, Tennessee finished 41st, 46th and 43rd, respectively.Jamie Brock, an Arkansas native, was not surprised by the surveys, conducted ...
The dust continued to settle in the Rock the Vote fallout Monday, when University of Memphis students and faculty met to discuss what went wrong in the botched effort to bring the MTV event to campus. Three members of Students for Political and Community Action, a group created to help bring Rock the ...
Although pundits have blasted 18- to 24-year-olds for years as being embarrassingly apathetic toward elections, University of Memphis students showed no sign of this apathy on Election Day. This suggests, whatever the outcome of the election and its seemingly inevitable litigation, the victor will for ...
Though most polls show the presidential race at a dead heat, a survey released Sunday shows Sen. John Kerry with a healthy lead among a rarely mentioned demographic -- news consumers. According to the survey conducted by the Pew Research Center, at least half of those who get most of their news from ...
University of Memphis students looking to brush off the textbookblues with a summer vacation should be smart and alert if theirplans include leaving the country, according to the United StatesDepartment of State. Through several brochures and its Web sites, the StateDepartment urges students to do research ...
University of Memphis junior Christen Roland received a postcardin January from Team in Training, a division of the Leukemia andLymphoma Society, advertising an opportunity to receive trainingfor an endurance sporting event while helping raise money for bloodcancer research. After the exercise science ...
For the 30 percent of University of Memphis students who arecurrently undeclared, salvation may be at hand, as Wednesday theAcademic Counseling Center will host the first annual Discover YourMajor Day. The information fair will feature faculty representatives from95 percent of The University's departments, ...
