Health professionals reveal dangers of hookah smoking
Hookah smoking is not nearly as safe as college students may think. In fact, studies show it is just as bad, if not worse than traditional cigarette smoking.
A hookah is a multi-stemmed, often glass-based, water pipe device for smoking tobacco. Often flavored by molasses, the tobacco is heated by charcoal and passes through a water-filled chamber, which cools the smoke before the smoker inhales it.
E Project winners present their work
Presentations of winning projects showing usage of digital technologies gathered more than 80 people in the Commonwealth Ballroom on Wednesday.
Host Richard Fine, professor of English, introduced the winners and provided them with the jury’s feedback on each project.
Cheating accusations taint SGA elections
Allegations of cheating were raised against Jessica Lee, the newly elected Monroe Park Campus Student Government Association president, at a judicial review meeting Wednesday.
Lee’s opponents, William C. Moehl and Clint Titsworth, said Lee allowed her running mate to forge her signature, distributed fliers designed to look like parking tickets and illegally campaigned in and around the James Branch Cabell Library.
In the news
WORLD
LONDON – British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Sunday the 15 British sailors and marines captured by Iran as they searched for smugglers off the Iraqi coast were not in Iranian waters, and warned that Britain viewed the situation as “very serious.”
The group was seized at gunpoint on Friday, and the Foreign Office in London said British officials don’t know where Iran is holding them.
Sports in Brief
BASEBALL
The Rams bounced back from a 10-8 loss to the James Madison Dukes with a 10-1 home victory over the UMBC Retrievers. Sophomore first baseman Jared Bolden (Lynchburg, Va./E.C. Glass) extended his hitting streak to 16 games after an RBI single in the third inning.
French candidate proposes Olympics boycott
PARIS – Boycott the Beijing Olympics – over Darfur?
A major French presidential candidate has suggested just that, in hopes of pressuring China to stop protecting Sudan from sanctions over military and militia attacks on civilians.
French Olympic officials expressed surprise at Francois Bayrou’s boycott call at a pro-Darfur rally late Tuesday.
NBA witch hunt?
I’m not going to hide my distaste for the Los Angeles Lakers. I can’t stand Kobe Bryant. I can’t stand Phil Jackson’s ability to always coach a team I hate. When the NBA handed out $50,000 fines to Jackson and the Lakers for criticizing the league’s decision to suspend Bryant and calling it a witch hunt; I did not complain.
Student tells of experience as miniseries extra
I recently got an exciting call to be an extra in the HBO miniseries, “John Adams.” I was ecstatic to get the call because I wasn’t hired for a previous movie audition.
The seven-part miniseries stars actors Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney as John and Abigail Adams.
Weird News
Literal sex-ed
A woman who routinely had sex with her boyfriend in front of her 9-year-old daughter to educate her about sex was sentenced to three years probation.
The 37-year-old Rhode Island woman and her 33-year-old boyfriend received the same sentence.
The lowdown on film competitions
Film is a competitive art, one in which who you know – or who knows you – could mean the difference between making it in the business.
With the plethora of homemade video being shared online, filmmakers need a way to stand out among the crowd and be recognized for their hard work and talent.