When senior Nikki Odderstol wanted to declare her major as a sophomore, it required more than filling out a form and signing on a dotted line. It took a month of preparation, advising meetings and filling out a petition before she was allowed to declare her major: interdisciplinary studies. Unlike other majors at Christopher Newport [...]
Apple is no longer a word reserved for fruit. Thanks to parents Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin, Apple now doubles as a potential baby name. Of the children born in the United States in 1960, the most popular names were David for boys and Mary for girls, according to the Social Security Administration website. In [...]
Sophomore Erin Gallagher knew she had to abandon her Catholic roots after meeting with Father Dave, the priest at her hometown parish in Washington, D.C. Gallagher has taken leave of Catholic Mass in the name of freedom and personal religious exploration. The Fellowship of Campus Unitarian Universalist Students (FOCUUS) at Christopher Newport University is helping [...]
One thing 30 percent of Americans over the age of 25 have in common: a bachelor’s degree. Last month, the Census Bureau released a report that found 30.4 percent of Americans over the age of 25 held a bachelor’s degree as of last March, an increase from 10 years ago when that statistic was at [...]
She is a petite, blonde sorority girl who was accepted into graduate school at Harvard University. This might sound like is a description of Elle Woods, the well-known, fictional character played by Reese Witherspoon in the 2001 motion picture “Legally Blonde.” However, these characteristics also describe a recent Christopher Newport University graduate. Getting into the [...]
Meme: “An idea, behavior, style or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture,” according to the Merriam Webster dictionary. CNU Memes: a Facebook page that houses pictures overlaid with text depicting CNU stereotypes, people and events. The site, which was launched with its first meme posted on Feb. 10, currently has 1,421 [...]
Anyone looking for a white T-shirt dress with the image a black cat’s tail climbing up the back or a pink glass pipe with a black moustache attached to the top, need look no further—Svpply.com has them covered. Svpply is self-described as “a retail book marking and recommendation service.” When signing up for an account, [...]
When freshman Nichole Naccash came to Christopher Newport University, she had never heard anyone call “dibs,” an expression used to claim possession of an object. This was one of the smaller social norms that she had to get used to in college as a student who had been home-schooled since fourth grade. “There were times, [...]
It is a worship experience, not a service. It is a church, not a campus ministry. It is designed for those who do not want to be there, not people who have already accepted Christ into their hearts. It is Elevation Church CNU: Extension Site. “We want to reach people far from God,” sophomore Dominic [...]
May 23, 1921. Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre on Broadway. “Shuffle Along,” the first theater production of its kind, starred a cast that included Josephine Baker and Florence Mills. This was the first musical to be written and performed solely by black Americans, and to a largely white audience at that. “They thought that no one [...]
