Front Page
17 November 2006
Volume 119, Issue 8
Facebook
phenomenon
There is a phenomenon sweeping college campuses across the world, causing students to rediscover friends they have not seen in years, join groups involving common interests, find out about the latest events on campus and have another distraction from doing school work.
With over 10 million registered users on 40,000 high school, college, regional and work networks, it seems as if everyone is “Facebooking.” The site is the top social networking site aimed mainly at college students, and is first amongst photo-posting websites on the Internet. Whenever a person mentions a name not recognized by another, it is a safe bet that person will look up the unrecognized name on Facebook at a later time, trying to link a name with a face. Read More...
Helping alleviate health care problems
This article, the last in a series of three, aims to open a dialogue between the students, faculty and administration of Monmouth College and the people at Community Medical Center (CMC). The first installment, published on Friday, Oct. 6, brought to the forefront the... Read More...
Working to keep students here
According to the Nov. 7 faculty senate report, President Mauri Ditzler reported on three items recently discussed at the college’s trustee meeting: past practices in reporting student enrollment, student retention and the current year operating budget. Read More...
