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Perhaps the best story in baseball this year has been that of the Pirates. After 20 straight years of wallowing in the bottom of the NL Central standings, never once managing so much as a winning record, let alone a playoff appearance, they have managed to field a winning team once more. They finished the regular season with a 94-68 record and beat the Reds in a wild card playoff to make the NLDS, where at the time of this writing they hold a 2-1 lead, just one win away from moving on to the NLCS.

Over the years the Paladins baseball team has produced 48 players who went on to play at some level of professional baseball, so it’s no surprise when there are a couple of scouts in the stands at Latham Stadium. In 2013, the Paladins produced three MLB draft picks, all selected by the Los Angeles Angels organization.

You’ve just finished up an intense hour-long, but friendly, group discussion with a Furman professor on the situation of poverty in Greenville. You grab a beer, join some friends, and sit down to watch a show. No, no — you didn’t just get out of your poverty studies class on a Friday at Furman; you’re actually downtown participating in the Warehouse Theatre’s Forum Series.

Furman Men’s Soccer is off to a strong start in the 2013 season, sporting a 7-1-1 record and a 16th overall ranking from TopDrawerSoccer.com. Following a tough loss to Akron in their second game of the season, they’ve gone on a seven game undefeated streak during which they have won six games and managed a +17 goal differential.

A college education is often associated with the development of the mind and intellect. This picture, while accurate, is incomplete. The body, recognized by often minimized, is another important aspect of personal development, and the college experience offers a unique formulative opportunity to cultivate community through physical activity and healthy daily lifestyle.

Twenty years ago, the first Associated Colleges of the South biennial Women’s and Gender Studies conference was held at our very own Furman University. Our University will welcome back the conference to its campus on April 4th and 5th, 2014. The sixteen member institutions meet every other year and discuss a specific theme that is relevant to gender studies.

Furman (2-3, 1-1 SoCon) once again failed to finish a second half rally at home over family weekend, losing 28-25 to Southern Conference foe Elon (2-4, 1-1 SoCon). The Paladins stormed back from being down by 18 at the half but never managed to regain the lead. The loss dropped Furman back under .500 and marks the first time that the Paladins have lost at home this season.

Lorde’s debut album Pure Heroine was released as a follow up to her EP, The Love Club. Though groomed by the largest American music label, Universal Music Group (UMG), the same label as record company creations like Justin Bieber and Nicky Minaj, this sixteen-year-old Australian sensation helped write the lyrics to songs that challenge the status quo of popular music. The authenticity of the music shines through, despite the record label’s influence.

Democracy is violent almost by definition. As outlined by James Madison in the tenth essay of the Federalist Papers, one of the greatest threats in any government by the people is that different groups will move so strongly in different directions that it will tear a democratic society apart. In arguing for the adoption of the United States Constitution in 1787, Madison describes the problem with the current partisanship in Washington, crystallized in the ongoing government shutdown that shows no signs of ending.