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Perspectives

Student involvement essential

Complaints are commonplace, but working through solutions too often is not. Students often grumble about what seems like an unnecessarily high amount of handicap-parking spots or the shrinking number of seats available at noon in the Brewer Student Dining Hall. While some of these problems cannot be fixed — the Grant Events Center will always need its own parking no matter how close it is to students’ dorm rooms — proposing solutions to any complaint is better than just airing frustration. […]

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Features

Holidays spark shopping records

Retailers rolled out sales earlier than ever for the 2011 Black Friday weekend.

Toys R Us began its sales at 9 p.m. and Walmart began an hour later, making it possible for people to begin what was for some an all-night shopping experience up to three hours earlier than the year before. […]

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News

TriBeta chartered: Biology department hosts first initiation ceremony

Union’s Biology Department hosted its first initiation ceremony for the honor society of TriBeta, Nov. 15.

TriBeta is a biological honorary society for “students, particularly undergraduates, dedicated to improving the understanding and appreciation of biological study and extending boundaries of human knowledge through scientific research,” according to the national TriBeta website. […]