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Area roller derby teams offer brutal entertainment

Area roller derby teams offer brutal entertainment
The names of their events say it all: "Red, White, and Bruised," "Give 'Em Hell," "Shock and Scream Fright Fight." Simply put, roller derby can be a brutal event, for both the participants and the crowd. "I've seen girls get thrown off the track completely when trying to get blocked.

Web site of the week: XXXChurch.com

Noelle is a "pastor's kid." She grew up in a good Christian family. She went to a good Christian school. She remembers the first time she saw porn. Actually, she remembers it in great detail, and repeatedly said she will "never forget it" in her confession on XXXChurch.

Movie Review: Resident Evil: Extinction

Five years ago, horror fans and video gamers alike rushed to the theater to see Resident Evil, expecting the classic survival horror video game to burst onto the big screen in a magnificent explosion of gore, guts and ghouls. Unfortunately, what they found was a sci-fi movie that shared little more than the title with the beloved game and had more action coming from laser beams and guys in white bio-hazard suites than from the living dead.

Renaissance Club aims to educate on historic period

Groups aims to hold fair on campus
Student Government (SG) recently granted club status to the Wilkes University Medieval Renaissance Club. Although still in the building stages, the club hopes to eventually hold a Renaissance fair and dinner on campus. According to its constitution, the Renaissance Club's purpose is to "foster an understanding and appreciation of the historical significance of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and to further the education of its members, the University and the public at large in these periods of history.

Book Review: Nicholas Sparks' The Choice

Warning: some spoilers in this review I believe that New York Times best selling author Nicholas Sparks is one of the only men in the world who could make cheating in a relationship sound like a romantically fantastic idea. Unless, of course, the act of infidelity inevitably resulted in a nine month long coma.

Schedule of Events

Tuesday, October 9 - Annual Flea Market and Rummage Sale at St. Luke's United Church of Christ from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. - Masters and Me art exhibition at Marquis Art and Frame from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. - King's College presents "The Comedy of Errors" on the King's College Theater at 7:30 p.

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