#8220;You’re a young, pretty girl with pretty pink shoes. Now stand up and be strong!” Those are Funny words to come from forty-year old truck driver with a mullet in a gas station at midnight. Even funnier is how I happened to meet him. And perhaps, the funniest part of […]
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Design: After Dark
Contrary to popular belief, we design students do way more than “just sit around and draw all day.” I hope to shed a bit of light onto what we are doing as a department- our efforts, our accomplishments, and some of the nervous breakdowns along the way…Design Life-Take One Allow […]
Travels: A Belfast Journal
One thing you learn from living pretty close to the northern border is that we on the other side are often disliked, or more appropriately, not cared for. I can still remember when I was much younger driving across the border from Cavan into Fermanagh and having to go through […]
Oh Sweet Valentine’s & Love
The History of Valentine:The holiday of Valentine’s Day probably derives its origins from the ancient Roman feast of Lupercalia. Young people had a tradition of name-drawing. On the eve of the festival of Lupercalia the names of Roman girls were written on pieces of paper and placed into jars. Each […]
A Korean Valentine’s
A tradition unique to this country alone, the Korean people celebrate Valentine’s Day differently from the American culture, an influence distinctly Western brought overseas to this small Asian peninsula. In Korea, on this holiday of showing one’s love and affection towards another, the tradition is the girls in relationships are […]
The Wonderful Look of Spring 2005
The Wonderful Look of Spring 2005In the Oxford Dictionary, the word feminine is defined as having qualities traditionally associated with women, especially delicacy and prettiness. The word feminine should be stuck in the heads women this spring season. Spring is my favorite season of all. This is the season of […]
He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not…
Who said flowers and candy make the best gifts for Valentines Day? Sugar and spice and everything nice are all well and good, but there’s no reason that you should be denied of those fashion items you’ve craved just because it’s the season of love. Some gifts are inspired by […]
Tsunami hits home for UB student
The tsunami hit on Dec. 26, during semester break and the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Sri Lankan native Lakshini Wijesinghe, a student who stayed at UB to study for her MBA after earning her bachelor’s, made her usual call home that Sunday night. She hadn’t been listening to the […]
String of Thefts at UB
Several thefts have been reported to Campus security recently. Five incidents between December 2004 and the present have been documented. Two of the thefts occurred in Wahlstrom Library and one occurred in Carlson Hall. In a bulletin posted on January 26th 2005, Campus Security gave a description of one suspect […]
MLK Initiative at the University of Bridgeport a Success
In January of 2005 the University of Bridgeport and local and national non-profit organizations joined forces to launch the Martin Luther King, Jr. Service Learning and Diversity Education Initiative (“MLK Initiative” for short). Their purpose was to celebrate and honor MLK Day by learning about Dr. King’s legacy of social […]