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After attracting more than 1000 attendees in its first year, the World Religions Symposium is back, seeking to encourage religious dialogue with a series of seven CLPs focusing on Jewish identity and theology. Called “Judaism: Ancient Conversation, Contemporary Voices,” the series runs from Oct. 22 to Dec. 2 and boasts thirteen sponsors — including the Office of the Chaplain, the Jewish Student Association, and the Religious Council — emphasizing an interdisciplinary approach to understanding religious traditions.

Last week, sports columnist Marcus Rodrigue published an article in the Louisiana State University student newspaper, the Daily Reveille, explaining to LSU readers what a paladin is and why the Furman Paladins represent a threat to LSU’s championship-pedigree football program.

Katy Perry’s new album “Prism” is disappointing. It isn’t bad; it just isn’t catchy like her first two full-length albums. Swedish dance music was an apparently an influence, though I certainly didn’t get this vibe from the album’s preponderance of slow tempo songs.

The college football season’s heading into week nine, and it’s an ideal time to assess the title chances of the top five teams in the Bowl Championship Series.

Designed by three Furman students, Dicho, which is short for dichotomy, is an iPhone app created as a way to get feedback from a specific group or the general public by posing questions with two answers.

Pupuseria y Cafeteria is a small restaurant and grocery on the side of Cedar Grove Road in Greenville, about a seven-minute drive from Furman. The place is distinctive in that it’s Salvadorian, so if you are looking for authenticity and some pupusas, it’s the place to go.

Founded last year by sophomores Chase Fiedler and William Lewis, the Furman Aviation Association has been successfully building functioning, electric model aircraft through the utilization of basic engineering and design concepts.

The topic of mental health is especially relevant at this time of year, given the deployment of psychiatric disorders as a plot device in many Halloween horror stories. The same narrative appears in the way that we often attempt to understand social ills like crime and poverty according to our own fear and ignorance regarding mental health.

The start of the 2013-2014 college basketball season is just a week away. With a lot of changes to conferences, it should shape up to be another wild ride this season. The pre-season top 10, however, has no surprises