What do you know about China? If you’re an American adult, I expect that you gained a sufficient degree of international awareness from your elementary school education. You probably enjoy impressing little kids by saying that China is a big land mass and densely populated. Well, don’t be too disconcerted if you think that you should know more than this, because I too hardly knew anything about China before I spent the summer there two years ago.

I sat next to eight interns in a dim office with a long oval desk this summer. A perfectly square and large navy banner with a United States government seal and the words Senator Mel Martinez loomed over my head, and a voice droned on about the do’s and don't’s of office activities. As I walked out (five hours later), the welcome orientation had revealed my position at the office: secretary and office gardener. Standing next to my car that night, the internship seemed like a huge

Just past the main doors of the Honors College lies the Student Research and Artistic Iniatives (SRAI) office; an innovative experience awaiting undergraduate students. SRAI is a program that brings together exceptional faculty with talented students to conduct research.

It is not uncommon to hear in a discussion the accusation "you're contradicting yourself." It is certainly a meaningful statement as evidenced by its use, but what does that actually mean? Using a particular set of grammatical rules and language guidelines (i.e. strict word definitions), it is certainly possible to write down two contradictory things. One popular, almost hack-neyed example often used in philosophy is the classic "round square." We can certainly write it, though it is a contr

Americans are accused of not knowing world history, foreign politics or cultures. Upon reading or hearing some of the criticism of our efforts at home and abroad to combat Jihadist terrorism, one might have to agree. Listen to the brilliance: “I believe there is government-sponsored terrorism by every nation in the world, including ours" (Rosie O’Donnell).