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Recently admitted prospective students and their families rode around campus on golf carts March 21 and 22 during Furman’s annual Accepted Students Days. Events included tours and meet-and-greets with other accepted students.

Edisto Island, S.C., offers a beach vacation with a small town feel. Take a weekend to enjoy the many amenities Edisto has to offer, including a state park, biking path, restaurants, fishing, and beach front exploration.

Professional baseball will soon be present again in the Greenville community when the Red Sox’s Low-A affiliate Greenville Drive starts their season. Despite a disappointing 2013 season in which the team finished in last place with an abysmal 51-87 record, there is reason for optimism this year.

The article “Students Developing Mobile App to Consolidate University Resources,” published in the February 25 issue of The Paladin, incorrectly stated that the Furman Student Mobile App would allow students to access and navigate Outlook email.

Furman will once again play host to prominent world leaders this week, bringing in current and former international ambassadors for a two-day international symposium titled “Japan in the 21st Century.”

The Student Government Association recently held student body elections to select four new peers to lead for the 2014-15 school year. As SGA prepares to bid farewell to the current leadership, The Paladin recently asked the incoming officers to introduce themselves and give a sneak preview into their plans for the year ahead.

That climate change is an issue neatly split down the aisle in both houses of congress is the kind of absurd reality only possible in the world of politics. Unlike other hot-button issues like abortion, gay rights, or fiscal policy, the right’s systematic denial of climate change is not a matter of divergent opinions or differing interpretations. The argument against climate change is an argument against cold, hard, scientific fact.

In response to the university’s defunding of the men’s golf team, alumni and other donors have raised enough money to fund the program into the near future. The goal of the initiative is to raise enough money to endow the program, donating such a significant sum that the interest from those funds can finance the program indefinitely.

A new project at Furman is taking a novel approach to helping students address issues surrounding body image, combining research and peer discussion to counter negative social expectations about beauty and appearances.