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Students to celebrate traditional spring festival of color on campus

Students to celebrate traditional spring festival of color on campus

[email protected] April 18, 2013

On April 28, the Hindu Students Community will be hosting a festival to celebrate the coming of spring and the Hindu tradition of Holi. It will be held at 2:30 p.m. at Tegeler Field, and there will be...

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Campus Ministry: Here to serve

[email protected] April 18, 2013

Ministers seek to combine both faith and service Imagine sitting in your office when someone knocks on the door, enters, sits down and tells you that they want to help people. What do you say? It...

Hunger issues addressed at Seder

Hunger issues addressed at Seder

[email protected] March 21, 2013

There is a fable about a girl who was throwing dying starfish back into the ocean. An old man wondered, “There must be thousands of starfish on the beach, you won’t really make much of a difference.”...

Baha’i Faith Relates to Abrahamic Faith

Baha’i Faith Relates to Abrahamic Faith

[email protected] March 21, 2013

With over five million followers representing most of the nations, races and cultures in the world, the origins of the Baha’i faith are worthy of note. It is said that the faith arose from eschatological...

Let Us Introduce You: Luke Yarbrough

Let Us Introduce You: Luke Yarbrough

[email protected] March 21, 2013

At first glance, new History 112 students might mistake Dr. Luke Yarbrough for a peer. Having earned his doctorate just last year, Yarbrough is a little green compared to his colleagues. But despite his...

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Do Muslims, Christians and Jews worship the ‘same God?’

[email protected] March 21, 2013

“Allah” is an Arabic term that derives from a combination of the definite article al- (“the”) with ilah, an ancient Arabic term for “deity.” “Allah” therefore means “the [only] deity,”...

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PHOTOS: First Jesuit Pope: Francis I of Argentina

[email protected] March 21, 2013

VATICAN CITY — White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel’s chimney signifying the selection of the 266th pope on March 13. With no clear contenders for pope as 115 Cardinals entered the conclave the...

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The Pope: Francis I of Argentina

[email protected] March 13, 2013

Vatican City — White smoke rose from the Sistine Chapel signifying the selection of the 266th pope earlier today. With no clear contenders for pope as 115 Cardinals entered the conclave two days ago,...

PHOTOS: MSA 5th Annual Winter Conference

PHOTOS: MSA 5th Annual Winter Conference

[email protected] February 14, 2013

Five hundred people attended the fifth Annual Winter Conference: Mind Body & Soul, Jan. 25-27, hosted by the Muslim Student's Association

Pope Benedict XVI announces resignation

Pope Benedict XVI announces resignation

[email protected] February 14, 2013

When Pope Benedict XVI announced he would be resigning the papacy, effective Feb. 28, he stunned not only the more than one billion members of the Roman Catholic Church but also close watchers of the...

Jainism: 2 millenia of non-violence

Jainism: 2 millenia of non-violence

[email protected] February 14, 2013

Reincarnation, soul-liberation in faith explored Jainism is a religion not known to many, yet is considered one of the oldest religions in the world. A minority religion in India, which according...

Ash Wednesday ritual signifies beginning of Lenten season

Ash Wednesday ritual signifies beginning of Lenten season

[email protected] February 14, 2013

On Wednesday, throughout the world, Christians were marked on their foreheads with ashes with a sign of the cross. These were the ashes which came from the burning of the palms used last year to celebrate...

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