Category: Features

GIBBOUS TO FULL MOON The Moon will be full on Oct. 2. When full, the Moon rises around sunset and will remain in the sky all night. The Moon will be in the waxing gibbous phase on Monday and then will be in the waning gibbous phase from Wednesday until Oct. 10, when it will…

Aries (March 21-April 20) Messages from friends may be unusually fast. Expect changing plans and last-minute cancellations. At present, friends and lovers may be mentally scattered or unsure of their priorities. Taurus (April 21-May 20) New financial or business instructions may be unnerving. Watch for colleagues and key officials to be easily influenced by private…

What happens, happens. Some students say terrorist-related attacks like the one on Sept. 11 are unavoidable. Someone determined to commit such attacks will do so, said Isaac Sprowl, a freshman business administrations major. And they’ll do it regardless of how tight security is. “I don’t think there’s much that can be done,” said Sprowl. “If…

Over $1,500 in donations have been raised for the project Frank Carner has been missing his wife and the mother of his son since she passed away last August, following her battle with breast cancer. “I live in a place filled with exquisite things and that’s a world that she made,” the associate professor of…

Aries (March 21-April 20). Property agreements or old family documents may cause delays. Expect relatives or family friends to request detailed information or financial permissions. Many Aries natives will soon expand home security. Taurus (April 21-May 20). Complicated social promises from the past may require an extra effort. Watch for close friends or colleagues to…

THE FIRST DAY OF AUTUMN Autumn officially begins at 7:04 p.m. on Sept. 22. At this time, the sun’s apparent annual path, the ecliptic, intersects the celestial equator (the projection of Earth’s equator onto the night sky). This point is known as the Autumnal Equinox. The word “equinox” literally means “Equal Night,” for on an…

Aries (March 21-April 19) – You’re still in the mood for love. State your honorable intentions early, then talk about what needs to be done. Tomorrow you can get started, but make the commitment to follow through on an old promise. This works even if you’ve been married for years, by the way. Taurus (April…

In his knee-high steel-toed rubber boots Brian Alward looks like an anthropologist. However, the 60-year-old geography-anthropology major is more likely to be found in the Geographic Information Systems Lab on the Gorham campus than in a swamp collecting data. This summer, after graduating from the University, Alward will participate in a prestigious internship at the…