• Student Defense: or Where’s the Popo ho?

    As a student, I consider it important to know that my safety is important to my university.  With all of the tuition I pay, fees they force from me, and fines people pay for parking without proper passes, having a good sense of safety is a minimal return on my investment.  Enter the campus alert…

  • Art Collector Herbert Vogel Dies At 89

    Herbert Vogel, a well renowned art collector who possessed over 5,000 works despite his modest income, has died at the age of 89.   Pieces from Vogel’s collection have been distributed to museums throughout the United States. A National Gallery of Art spokesperson, Deborah Ziska, reports that Vogel died Sunday of natural causes in New…

  • Heidemarie Schwermer Has Been Moneyless For 16 Years

    Heidemarie Schwermer, a 69-year-old German woman, has been living without money for nearly 16 years and is reportedly much happier because of it, as is documented in the film “Living Without Money”. How does she do it? For food, Schwermer barters a few hours of hard labor cleaning and gardening in exchange for food. For…

  • Appeals court rejects anti-gay graduate student’s bid for reversal of her expulsion

    Appeals court rejects anti-gay graduate student’s bid for reversal of her expulsion ATLANTA — The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a decision by a U.S. district judge who ruled Augusta State University may expel a graduate student who refused to comply with graduate degree program requirements citing her Christian beliefs that homosexuality…