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Valentine’s Day weekend holds entertainment and some solid bar specials.


Be Here Now hosts Valentine’s Day bash

This Valentine’s Day, Be Here Now is partnering with Glue & Scissors to present The Swingers Ball: Val&tine’s Day Formal, a jazz-filled dance party from 8 tonight to 3 a.m. Local band The Jazz Agents will perform swing and big band tunes for its first show ever



Members of Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma Kappa were at the scramble light today to spread some valentines day greetings. The students were handing out flowers and candy to passing by students. Jacob Burbrink

Students share love at Scramble Light

Members of Alpha Tau Omega and Sigma Kappa were at the scramble light today to spread some valentines day greetings. The students were handing out flowers and candy to passing by students.


Ending the crush cycle

I spent most of my teenage years and the first bit of my twenties crush-hopping. Secretly adoring your best friend. Latching on to the idea of that one guy you met through your friend at a party two weeks ago. Juggling a few mental relationships for a while until you pick one and pursue it. Breaking up and starting over. It felt like a bad cycle, a bunch of brain space that I was using for generally unrequited and meaningless crushes that, albeit fun and fulfilling at times, just didn’t deliver that much for me.



THE DYESSERTATION: Conversation, not debates, is the way to change minds

There is no clear winner in a verbal death match between two hardcore believers with opposite perspectives.That was pretty evident in the Creationism debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham — one known as the educational Science Guy and one known as the founder of the Creation Museum. After more than two hours of debating, neither admitted defeat.




RELATIVE VALUE: Absolutism attitude weakens Ken Ham's argument

On the evening of Feb. 5, I eagerly sat down to my computer to watch the Bill Nye and Ken Ham debate from the previous night, where the two would discuss creationism in public schools. As time went on, I begin to feel a growing sense of discontent every time Ham, the CEO of the Creation Museum in Kentucky, spoke. His arguments were, at times, so frustrating that it made me want to pull my hair out.


Science of relationships

When it comes to romantic relationships, love is not the only deciding factor. There’s a little science behind a couple’s chemistry.


	For the next two days students will vote to decide the next four students to represent the student body.

Vice presidential candidates gear up for first debate of season

Tonight, the two vice presidential candidates will square off in the first of the debates for the Student Government Association’s election season. Sophomore political science major Carli Hendershot will represent Cardinal Connection, and Junior marketing major Gabrielle Bunn will represent Empower. Both have SGA experience, a valuable asset for a vice presidential nominee, because theySenate meetings.


State vouchers can indirectly pay for creationist teaching

Bill Nye and Ken Ham’s debate last week at the Creation Museum in Kentucky has reignited the debate of teaching creationism in the classroom. Since the ruling against Everson vs. Board of Education of the township of Ewing in 1947, it has been against federal law to teach religious ideas or creationism in public schools.


SGA introduces 4 pieces of legislation

Student Government Association introduced four pieces of legislation at their meeting this afternoon, the most introduced in one senate meeting this academic year. President pro tempore Jack Hesser said the rest of February will see considerably more SGA legislation. “The legislation that was read today was only a fraction of legislation sent to me,” he said, addressing the Student Senate to a round of applause. “There will be four to five pieces of legislation at every senate for the rest of February. I am really proud of you guys for that.”