Glass Half Full: Risky business
By Traci Cox, staff writer

Last Monday, high-altitude mountaineer Conrad Anker delivered an inspirational and humbling lecture at Memorial Hall. Anker reached the summit of Mount Everest last summer, ranking among the annals of the thousands of climbers who have suffered hypoxia, hallucinations and brain damage at the highest peak in the world. But Anker is more than just a crazy climber. He is a humanitarian, author, father and husband. More...

Because I Said So: Supporting our troops in all the wrongs ways
By Kathryn Manning, staff writer

If there’s any cliché that’s been drilled into our head over the past several years, it’s “Support the Troops.” We see it everywhere: on bumper stickers, instant message profiles and protest signs. Unfortunately, the phrase has become too cliché, and it seems America has developed a very twisted idea of what it really means to stand behind our men and women in uniform. More...

Breeze Perspectives: Bourgault could ‘be the change’
By Peter Weems, contributing writer

Perhaps we should set aside our outrage for a moment and try to see what we can learn from Matt Bourgault, the preacher from Consuming Fire Campus Ministry. Bourgault and his family travel the country preaching their message at college campuses. According to Bourgault’s Web site, they have spread their word in forty states and four foreign countries. Bourgault claims that in 1999 he was called by God to be an open-air evangelical. More...

Battle of the Sexes: Can men make it in the kitchen?
Two pieces by Tim Chapman, senior writer & Sarah Teach, contributing writer

Emeril Lagasse, Tyler Florence, Mario Batali, Wolfgang Puck, Gordon Ramsay, Ratatouille—need I name more? Of course men can get the job done in the kitchen, the top chefs in the world tend to be of our superior sex. More...

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