With the change of pro­fes­sors each semes­ter, many of them can blur together in the minds of stu­dents. Some pro­fes­sors, how­ever, go above and beyond to leave a last­ing impact on their students.

An FSU pro­fes­sor who really stands out for Erin Munsel, FSU Honors sopho­more in pre-pharmacy, is Dr. Clifton Franklund. Munsel had Franklund for micro­bi­ol­ogy. (more…)

Legendary coach Joe Paterno has died. The iconic coach’s mem­ory will never be for­got­ten, but what does this mean for the world of col­lege football?

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The United States Justice Department shut down Megaupload and its sis­ter web­sites last Thursday, remov­ing a web­site that receives fifty mil­lion daily vis­i­tors and accounts for 4 per­cent of all traf­fic on the Internet. (more…)

Ferris stu­dents com­pet­ing in this year’s Honors Art Show will dis­play the capa­bil­i­ties of the right side of their brains.

Honors stu­dents aim to win either Crowd Favorite, cho­sen by atten­dees, or Overall Winner, selected by Professor William Culpepper. (more…)

What does every FSU stu­dent have in com­mon with a celebrity? Nothing. Chances are, most will never meet one, let alone have a rela­tion­ship with one (though, con­sid­er­ing the sta­bil­ity of celebrity rela­tion­ships, maybe that’s a good thing). But they can dream, right? No mat­ter how much Entertainment Tonight FSU stu­dents watch, most can admit to some sort of celebrity crush. (more…)

Artist Sheryl Budnik is devi­at­ing from her nor­mally idyl­lic sea and sun­set themes to con­front uncom­fort­able truths about nat­ural dis­as­ters in the world.

Alongside her calm scenes, she also has paint­ings of nat­ural dis­as­ters such as vol­ca­noes, earth­quakes, and for­est fires. Her art dis­play “Chaos & Calm” will be in the Rankin Art Center until Jan. 21. (more…)

Your next addi­tion to your home the­ater setup may be a Kinect, but not in the way that it is avail­able now. Microsoft is rumored to unveil an improved ver­sion of their motion-capture sys­tem Kinect.

This new Kinect would become an Xbox with­out the games. Instead of being a tra­di­tional gam­ing con­sole, this new Kinect would be a one stop enter­tain­ment item by allow­ing users to uti­lize the grow­ing list of con­tent such as Netflix, Hulu Plus, ESPN, and UFC with the inter­ac­tive UI (user inter­face) that makes the Kinect spe­cial. (more…)

Newday Dreamers: First in a Series of Itty Bitty Demos

Newday Dreamers come from neigh­bor­ing col­lege town and river city Mt. Pleasant. The band has been around almost five years with a few vary­ing mem­bers and under sev­eral dif­fer­ent names. Their released songs fea­ture the tal­ent and hard work of the up and com­ing Indie band. Their music flows like a stream of musi­cal con­scious­ness envelop­ing your senses. (more…)

Congressman Womack screams at a sin­gle mother of two and tells her to join the mil­i­tary in lieu of pay­ing for col­lege with Pell Grants. This site has the video of a mad politi­cian and a very famil­iar sit­u­a­tion we are all faced with: pay­ing for school. (more…)

Rollerskating is dif­fi­cult enough for some with­out adding danc­ing into the mix, but not for Breaksk8.

Breaksk8 is a roller­skat­ing dance team based out of Kokomo, Ind. They per­formed on MTV’s “America’s Best Dance Crew” in 2008 and at the 2008 Teen Choice Awards. Breaksk8 will be per­form­ing at the Williams Auditorium at 7 p.m. on Jan. 12. (more…)