Spring Break
A UST freshman hopes to establish an independent, student-run campus radio station by next school year. The student, Danny Dyer, said that he wants the station to be student-controlled while still being endorsed by the University.
Twelve-year-old Alice Winston lives on a horse farm in Desert Valley, Colo. Her emotionally calloused father struggles to make a living, always waiting for his big break; her mother is bedridden with depression and has not gone downstairs in years; her sister, Nona, escapes the farm in a fit of passion to marry a young cowboy.
Varley O'Connor's third novel, "The Cure," is an astute look at a family changed by disease. The book begins with 3-year-old Scott waking one morning in 1931, sick with a fever, but soon, he's completely devastated by polio, isolated in intensive care with an iron lung and body braces.
Senior psychology major Nicole Bouchier, AKA "Claudia Van Damage," has been a member of the Houston Roller Derby team for a year. Roller Derby is a sport that incorporates entertainment with high-contact athleticism. For information on upcoming bouts, visit www.
It took me a while to jump on the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare train, but I haven't gotten off since. In CoD4, developers Infinity Ward take a well-deserved break from the World War II setting; instead, as the sub-title suggests, the game takes place in the near-future.