Perspectives

They executed John Allen Muhammed on Tuesday. You may not remember but he was the guy who masterminded the Washington DC sniper shootings seven years ago. That fall I started high school and for three weeks there were no outdoor sports. PE and all practices were indoor only. I vividly remember that was the one season I tried out athletic training and therefore spent a lot of … [Read more...] about Death penalty terminates potential for redemption

The man was a little bit younger than my dad tall blond and fairly handsome with a dignified appearance. Talking to him one could tell he was educated intelligent and rational. His words commanded attention full of compassion and valuable insight and his gentle spirit was unmistakable.Yet on this cold February night in downtown Denver Hans clad in dirty work boots ill-fitting … [Read more...] about Homeless share common humanity

About three days before midterm season unofficially began a little monster called Stress crept onto campus and took up semi-permanent residence in the corners of dorm rooms and shelves of Payson creating difficult new situations and aggravating pre-existent ones. By the time mid-semester exams made their rounds Stress had worked its magic on pretty much every single Wave and … [Read more...] about Staff Editorial: Thankfulness eases pain of 'Stress Season'

Love. It is a term with which we have become all too familiar. One could incorporate the expression of love to dear and near relatives and yet could simultaneously apply the phrase to a mere appreciation for ice cream. With today's countless connotations of what love really is it would be difficult to apply an absolute definition to the tremendously broad understanding of it. … [Read more...] about Authentic love found beyond the fall

In the late 1950s Paris was quite a different place than it is today.Still reeling from the devastating effects of the previous decade's world war the future of French society was torn between the communist totalitarianism of the U.S.S.R. and the United States' model of individualist laissez-faire capitalism. Amid this backdrop a group called Situationist International emerged … [Read more...] about Drift your way out of being displaced