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In case you haven’t seen the towers of stale candy hearts and heart-shaped boxes of sure-to-be-80 percent-disgusting chocolates (the other 20 percent may have edible fillings), Valentine’s Day is upon us. Feb. 14 makes a holiday out of pressuring guys, disappointing girls, and reminding everyone who doesn’t have a special someone that they don’t have a special someone.

The Lady Paladins are back on track just in time for a huge conference showdown. After a brief two game road skid to Western Carolina and App State, the Lady Paladins came back with a huge win on the road against Wofford.

Emerging as a musical hybrid of such diverse bands as Vampire Weekend and Bloc Party, Bombay Bicycle Club, the four-piece indie rock outfit from the U.K., released their fourth full length album, So Long, See You Tomorrow, on Feb. 3.

Furman Panhellenic recently voted to add an additional sorority to Furman’s campus. The council voted to establish an Extension Exploratory Committee this past fall, which includes students, staff, and alumnae from each sorority currently active at Furman.

Students at Furman are constantly running technological errands, making course adjustments or checking on their meal plan points by accessing information scattered across multiple university resources. But students Weston Catron and Nick Holt are making plans to change the chaos with a new mobile device app that aims to improve student access to course syllabi, academic calendars, Outlook email, and other university resources, consolidating data and resources into a single tool.

At the annual conference for Keeping Sweets Sacred (KISS) today, Necco’s candy conversation hearts yelled out in protest against the “I Love Local” DIY movement that promotes DIY Valentines, particularly homemade candy hearts.

The Presidential Search Committee and Board of Trustees have unanimously selected Dr. Elizabeth Davis, a longtime administrator at Baylor University, to serve as the 12th President of Furman University, which will make her the first female president in the university’s more than 187 year history.

Students sled down a hill in North Village during 2014’s first snow day on Wed., Jan. 29.

Psychology professor Charles L. Brewer, one of Furman’s most senior faculty members, recently announced that he will be retiring at the end of the spring semester after more than 45 years at the university. Brewer joined Furman’s faculty in 1967 and became a professor in 1970.