Spring Break
The Humane Society of Eastern Carolina (HSEC) is a nonprofit "no kill" animal shelter that works in effort to find neglected animals good homes and educate the public on animal-related issues. "We are here to take in animals that people can no longer keep or can't find a home for, and we try our hardest to get them adopted into good quality homes," said HSEC Assistant Director Lauren Early.
With the American economy growing at a modest pace, job markets continue to open up, giving way to lowering the unemployment rate. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, the job market for recent graduates is the best in years, with surveyed employers reporting a 19.
I'm not especially excited to do a music review, but there seems to be a lot of interest on campus regarding Kanye and 50, so I'll take a shot at it. Last Tuesday the two biggest names in hip-hop dropped new albums, so like every other college student in America, I went to Wal-Mart and bought both of them.
Facebook the immensely popular Internet site primarily for students has begun to allow members and amateur Internet designers to add applications such as Pirates vs. Ninjas, iLike, Horoscopes and much more. Although these applications seem pointless to some, it is an older feature that is changing the social landscape of Facebook.
The nineties were a time of slackers, grunge, horribly acted television shows and the well-known and criticized "Generation X." Out of this era came Chuck Klosterman, who is a current senior writer at Spin Magazine. Klosterman has published a few "low-culture manifestos," as he calls them, since Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs, but none of them seems as inherently interesting.