For more than three weeks, thousands of protestors have gathered along Wall Street, in nearby Zuccoti Park and in dozens of cities across the world. And yet most people, even students on this campus, are unfamiliar with its motives. What is it?It is not,...

Adam Brown Senior political science major Dekalb is where many of us call home; this is the peaceful image we'll conjure when asked many years from now where we grew up. For some, this is perfectly suitable. For others, however, there is a sizable disconnect...

On Sept. 2, a fire broke out on an oil rig platform 13 miles from the coast of New Orleans. Of the 13 crew members aboard, 12 managed to escape unscathed, with one suffering minor injuries. The following day, a tense anxiety gripped the otherwise Big...

Terrorism as a force, is an idea has existed in many forms for decades--or centuries--depending on how one looks at it. It has no nationality, ethnicity or race. There has existed church-sanctioned terrorism throughout the Middle Ages, Buddhist car bombers...