Looking back on year one: Freshman volleyball player reflects on first year as collegiate athlete

Freshman year: different home, different school, different life, new food, new friends, new homework… sound familiar? Now add weight lifting every morning, athletic practice every weekday and a tournament every weekend. Sound stressful? Here’s an idea of an athlete’s daily schedule during autumn term; a freshman’s very first…

Drunk on Science

Drunk on Science

I sip a lukewarm PBR in front of my blank computer screen. Unlike most cases of writer’s block, this time I don’t struggle from a lack of material. Scientific topics are by nature innumerable, proven every day by the child who asks “why?” and receives an unsatisfactory answer from a cornered…

Explore non-dairy alternatives to milk

Explore non-dairy alternatives to milk

As an avid milk drinker and lover of all things dairy, I became sorely disappointed and disgusted when I learned about pus cells in milk produced in the United States. According to Charlotte Gerson of the Gerson Institute in her article on foodmatters.tv the typical dairy cows are…

Cait’s Cookin’: Almond flour hot cakes

It was a lazy Saturday morning. I woke up with almost no fresh fruit in the house and…

EC receives reaccredidation

After days of intense scrutiny, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) recently awarded Eckerd College what…