The Beacon

Monday, February 20, 2006

News

• Online registering simplified through click of the button
• SG Notes
• College students turn to plasma donation to help pay bills
• Advances in biological research challenge researchers and politicians to find middle ground
• Area ranks first in nation for asthma trouble spots in 2006
• Residents complain of disturbances, unruliness at Evans Hall
• Graduation ceremony approaches with no speaker yet identified

Features

• Sidhu school launches alumni mentoring program
• Multicultural resource center to open in February
• Father-daughter team takes Wilkes by storm
• Women's issues take center stage in Vagina Monologues

Sports

• Beacon Calendar
• WVW coaching dilemma: keep a proven winner around
• Spring fever: Colonels to spend break in Cocoa Beach
• Athlete of the Week
• Preview of the Week: Men's Basketball Playoffs
• Weekend Recaps
• Double Take
• Sometimes silver is good enough...and sometimes it's not
• Game of the Week: Cleveland Cavaliers at Philadelphia 76ers

Entertainment

• Nightclub slated to dance into Wilkes-Barre this spring
• Closer Than Ever at Darte through this weekend
• CD Review: M.I.A. Arular
• Dinner...Boston's The Gourmet Pizza
• People are talking...

Opinion

• Your Voices: A war by any other name
• People too ready to sling mud at FY 2007 budget proposal
• The bore on drugs
• Star power fuels celebrity-turned-politician phenomenon
• Your Voices 2
• What's the big *beep*-ing problem?

More Issues

Issue Summary

News

• Funkmaster Flex mixer flames out
• Rossenn Lecture welcomes renowned paleoanthropologist
• SPIN Farm takes root on Ross and River Streets
• Stewards of the Earth: How clean is the W-B air we breathe?
• Stewards of the Earth: the Susquehanna River and local water quality

Sports

• Colonels popped in final games of series
• Football faces challenging slate in 2008
• Game of the Week: San Francisco Giants v. Philadelphia Phillies
• Shocker Squad completes three-peat
• Softball falters in playoffs race
• Whiteout expected at Wachovia for Calder Cup round 2
• Double Take
• Two Wilkes student-athletes to intern with 2008 Olympics

Entertainment

• Schedule of Events
• You should know…The Silversun Pickups
• Baby Mama features female comedians in leading role
• Movie Review: The Bank Job
• Going out with a bang
• Website of the Week

Lifestyles

• Top 10 ways to find your dream job
• Real-world stresses worry seniors approaching graduation
• Student of the Week: Madeleine Alves

Opinion

• Getting out of the comfort zone: a senior's send-off
• No more excuses: Wilkes students had up close view of politics
• Here's to You: Stupid question asker
• The Angry Rant: Movies I hate
• When cruelty becomes 'artistic statement'