For him, it was just another day. Get up at 5 a.m., get in a workout before being at work at 8, and spend the day training for the event that somewhere, someone would need to call in the Coast Guard. Cole Chaplin had been all over the US in his time in the Coast Guard.
The college experience is supposed to be about discovering yourself and the world, but with only 8 percent minorities on campus at St. Ambrose it's hard for students to really get a feel for the world outside of this small Midwest town. From information compiled by St.
In a nationwide acting competition, a small group of theater students from St. Ambrose would have to make quite an impression to get their chance at the prize. Their talent stood out among the rest as seven of the students were nominated for the Irene Ryans Scholarship as part of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (ACTF).
Neil Young said it best when he sang that "rock and roll can never die." From the soft set of an acoustic performance to the loud reverberations of a heavy rock album, rock & roll is hard to ignore. On that note, beginning in February St. Ambrose's radio station, KALA 88.
On a typical Friday night, most college students want to have a few beers and relax. This carefree behavior is contributing to the spread of H1N1 and it has also been a factor in the increase of oral herpes in people ages 17-21. Since 2007, there has been a 230 percent increase in the transmission of Herpes Simplex Virus 1, also known as oral herpes.
The newspapers appear every morning like clockwork, but how and why seems to be a mystery. The Collegiate Readership Program is not something that will sound familiar to many students and faculty, but it is what provides the newspapers to the St. Ambrose campus every day.
Waking up in the mornings to the sun peeping over the tops of the mountains and tropical birds cooing, seeing colorful flowers pop with color and doing research on HIV testing and the treatments for AIDS-- this is the life of senior St. Ambrose student Samantha Lee for the next 10 months.
Imagine if a female student was walking from the library to her dorm all alone one night and an attacker came up from behind and grabbed her. Most women would try to fight, but wouldn't really know what to do, but St. Ambrose offers a class that is trying to empower these women and give them the tools to fight back.
What did we learn from the movies in 2009? The phrase "bromance" is created to describe what Paul Rudd and Jason Segel felt for each other, Pixar must be Latin for gold, why a bachelor party in Las Vegas isn't always a good idea, Quentin Tarantino's version of WWII is much more interesting than actual events, and that James Cameron's imagination is still worth a billion dollars.