Editor’s Message

Americans love their Thanksgiving feast with its turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casseroles, green bean casserole and all the other sides, desserts and breads.

Quinn Minute - Football’s most important player

What’s the most important position on a football team?I vote for the center. Some pay more attention to the quarterback or running backs, but without the center they’d just be standing around.The center starts each play.

Accountability to Students

Universities and lenders must be more transparent regarding costs, opportunities and likelihoods of success for students.

USPS increases holiday shipping costs

The U.S. Postal Service filed notice with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) regarding a temporary price change for some package services for the 2024 peak holiday season.This temporary price adjustment is to help cover extra handling costs to ensure a successful peak season.

Editor’s Message

As Americans across the country raise our flag on Veterans Day, we remember that the men and women of the United States Armed Forces have and will continue to serve a great cause. They follow a great tradition.

Quinn Minute - Really ancient food

Sometimes I wonder how our ancient ancestors survived without foods like breakfast cereal and ice cream. But maybe they didn’t realize what they were missing, because prehistoric television commercials got such poor reception.Seriously, consider the paleolithic period, which covers about 2.

Quinn Minute - My average face

Have you ever been told you look like somebody famous?A couple years ago, several friends and I sat around a lunch table, and tried to judge who our companions resembled. My friend Jim said, “Quinn, you just have a generic face.“That’s not an insult,” he added.

Production

The number and value of college degrees produced in the U.S. will be a bone of contention for a long time, and the marrow of that bone is that the cost of the degree is no longer borne solely by an individual but, increasingly, by taxpayers.

Quinn Minute - Classroom Smells

Every day in my high school, homeroom smelled different. Not better, but different.At that moment, we teens were bound together by one goal. We wanted to smell better, and we wanted to smell stronger. This required experimentation.Every morning, I left home as a cornucopia of fragrances.

Academic Market Forces

The higher education marketplace is special and unique and provides something unlike any other enterprise. But it is a marketplace, nonetheless. Universities are subsidized by the state and, therefore, are obliged to respond to the social and economic needs of the state.