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“Furman Blood runs deep,” said Alumni Director Tom Triplitt. A Furman graduate himself, Triplitt stressed the importance of keeping Furman alumni involved with the university after they receive their degree.

After months of deliberation beginning last spring, the Steering Committee has released Furman’s newest strategic plan, Vision 2020. The plan lays out the university’s objectives for the next decade.

At first glance, The Ides of March looks like another one of those plays-turned-films that will come to the Academy Awards, pick up an Oscar or two, be nominated for a few more, and then be swept into film trivia history. In spite of its already questionable legacy, there’s a great deal to be learned from the film.

Mrs. Christine “Cricket” Wehunt, a Furman Dining Hall employee, passed away on September 27, 2011.

On Tuesday, October 4, the Riley Institute brought Diane Ravitch to Furman to discuss her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education.

This week, Furman students witnessed the first ever on-campus screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. EROS (Encouraging Respect of Sexualities) sponsored the screening, showing it Monday and Tuesday night. A costume contest followed each screening which resulted in this writer receiving 2nd place for his interpretation as Dr. Frank-N-Furter.

I greatly value travel. It allows us to experience new things, broaden our horizons, and begin to understand people unlike ourselves. It teaches us that the world is not all about us and that, in fact, we are far from being at the center of the universe.

The following piece appeared in the October 5, 1962 issue of The Paladin, and was written by Marshall Frady, ’63. The article references riots occurring at the University of Mississippi on October 1, 1962, in response to the enrollment of that university’s first black student, James Meredith.

Homecoming, if we’re not careful, might slide out of reality.