Although there is no proposal at this time to equip Public Safety officers at the college with firearms, some have recently commented about the possibility. I am not advocating for or against Public...

At the beginning of every new year, people all over have made all kinds of different New Year’s resolutions. People search for things in their lives that they would like to change or improve on for the...

It’s winter and it’s quite chilly out there. One of the last things you may want is to be stuck on the highway in winter. Here are some tips to help you out. Battery and fluids Inspect your battery...

Why are we here? Not in the existential, is-there-a-god sense, but in the very concrete sense of why we are here at Madison College. What is the purpose of education? The easy answer is money. Without...

The semester is drawing to a close, with graduation and Christmas right around the corner, I have this bittersweet feeling about it. I am eager to start a career but I am not ready to say good bye to Madison...

When the police show up after someone has broken into your home, you would expect them to show up carrying a firearm. When you are running from a mugger and see a police officer, you’re going to want...

Safety. We use that word so loosely at times it can seem to mean everything and nothing at once. It can mean peace and war, noise and silence, weapons and the lack thereof. Such times call for moral and...

Let’s talk about Christmas. Not the celebration of the birth of some carpenter’s son more than 2,000 years ago, but what most people in the U.S. think of when one says Christmas: decorated trees, turkey...

On the day of his death, the New Yorker revealed its front cover tribute to Nelson Mandela. Someone on my Twitter timeline mentioned how the cover showed Mandela as a young man, a stern look on his face,...

It seems in recent years the holiday season has been expanding. Christmas decorations can be seen even before Halloween. It’s as though the rabid commercialism of American consumers has caused the holiday...

With the second “Hunger Games” movie hitting theatres soon, I finally decided to read the books and discover what the hype is about. I logged in to my Amazon account and transferred the first book...