Aramark has exclusive campus catering rights
By Rachana Dixit, news editor

When communications professor Annick Conis was teaching her intercultural communication students about how food is a cultural symbol, she had an idea to take her students to Blue Nile — a restaurant specializing in Ethiopian cuisine — during one of their classes. But after considering the amount of time it would take to get to the restaurant, have 40 students and herself eat, and drive back so her students could make the rest of their classes, the idea seemed increasingly unfeasible. More...

Philosophy gets a new twist
By Carly LeDuc, contributing writer

In coming weeks, the JMU chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, the philosophy national honor society, is presenting a number of guest lectures entitled “Current Perspectives in Western Philosophy.” More...

Simpson presents Aristotelian thought
By Jim Demos, contributing writer

According to Peter Simpson, professor of philosophy and classics at the City University of New York, it is possible to have a government that provides a civil order where citizens can live freely, while being Aristotelian and active in the moral development of its people. More...