• Herman replaces Platt as head volleyball coach

    Herman replaces Platt as head volleyball coach

    Trent Herman, a resident of Kingwood with over a decade of coaching experience, is replacing former coach Kaddie Platt after her 17 year tenure at the University. A graduate of Fort Hayes State University, Herman began his collegiate coaching career as a graduate assistant at Southwest State University and coached the Southwest Minnesota Juniors Volleyball Club.

  • The Man Behind The Clipboard

    The Man Behind The Clipboard

    Vic Shealy, the school’s first football head coach, has a long coaching history that includes stents at Baylor University, the Air Force Academy, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and the University of Kansas. After the press conference in Denham Hall on April 9, athletics director Steve Moniaci said that when it came time to make a coaching decision, Shealy was obviously the right choice for the job.

  • Remembering A Titanic Event

    Remembering A Titanic Event

    The real story concerning the sinking of the RMS Titanic is not the movie, the exhibits or the food that was served, but the lives of the many people that were tragically changed or ended altogether.

  • Rolling in the green

    Rolling in the green

    While investing and social networking could be considered two different worlds, they may be more closely connected with Facebook’s $5 billion initial public offering in May.

  • Sloan addresses campus expansion

    Sloan addresses campus expansion

    President Robert B. Sloan Jr. said the University could soon have its own version of Rice Village as well as its own football practice field.

  • ‘Hunger Games’ Feeds Appetite

    ‘Hunger Games’ Feeds Appetite

    Suzanne Collins’ popular “Hunger Games” action trilogy’s film adaption was a tear jerking, action-packed success, despite varying from the first book through limitations in scope.

  • E-readers offer students more than a larger reading selection

    E-readers offer students more than a larger reading selection

    With the e-reader, one of the century’s latest innovations, today’s college and high school students have an academic advantage.

  • Campus highlights opening of nearby Fitness Center

    Campus highlights opening of nearby Fitness Center

    University and Bradshaw Fitness Center representatives gripped royal blue and orange ribbons on Feb. 29 as they prepared to celebrate the grand opening of the Fitness Center that was purchased from Memorial Healthcare System December 2011.

  • Cheerleader trades Texans for Huskies

    Cheerleader trades Texans for Huskies

    Amanda Golden, 26, was hired in mid-February to fill the position of cheerleading coach and lead the squad of eight, two months before her last event as a professional cheerleader for the local National Football League team.

  • Women leaders of the civil rights movement

    Women leaders of the civil rights movement

    During Black History Month, students and teachers nationwide approach topics that address the struggles and triumphs of “the black man” in America. And much too often, the month-long celebration of African-American history is presented as such: the struggles and triumphs of the black man.