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After opening the season with five consecutive losses, the Paladins volleyball team bounced back this week, pulling out wins in three of five matches.

There’s been a lot of fuss recently about the Paladen and Einstein’s changing their hours to redirect traffic towards the Paddock, so I decided to check out the new restaurant to see how it stacks up against other on campus fare.

Four weeks into the school year, you may find yourself with a rapidly-filling schedule of academics, extracurricular activities, sporting events, and the like. If you don’t have the time or energy to devote to a hike, consider visiting Campbell’s Covered Bridge and Poinsett Bridge.

This past weekend, the Student Government Association spent a weekend at the Montreat Conference Center in Asheville for their annual retreat to lay out plans for the year ahead.

Once a week, about six students gather in the Trone Center’s student media suite and sit around a conference table for upwards of six hours, talking and laughing, at times locked in visibly tense exchanges but quite evidently enjoying themselves. It may not look like much to the uninitiated passerby, but for members of the Tabletop Gaming Club, the game of Dungeons and Dragons they’re playing goes past appearances — it’s an immersive role-playing experience that places them in league against mythical monsters in fantastic imaginative worlds.

The Paladins opened the 2013 season on the road with two tough losses to Gardner-Webb and Coastal Carolina, losing each game by only seven points. After not getting much going on the offensive side of the ball against Gardner-Webb (sophomore quarterback Reese Hannon was unable to play because of a strained oblique), the Paladins opened up in the next game, gaining 431 yards of offense against Coastal Carolina.

Did you know that by attending Euphoria, Greenville’s food, wine, and music festival, you would get the chance to rub elbows with community leaders, celebrity chefs, recording artists, and members of the national media and raise a little money for charity in the process? All the profits from this opportunity to enjoy Greenville, familiarize oneself with the culinary arts, sip lovely libations, and jam out with Nashville’s best singer-songwriters go to charities that benefit the Greenville community.

This past summer, Aramark dining services and Dining Hall management attended a three and a half hour workshop at the Furman Farm to learn about how to improve the university’s food waste composting system.

For many Microsoft fans, this season is particularly exciting due to the upcoming release of the company’s new console, the Xbox One. The console will host a more powerful processor, advanced graphics, and something that may get gamers moving — the Kinect 2.0.