Since The Dark Knight Rises comes out tomorrow night (or I guess Friday morning) I think it is time I finally put down on paper (or computer screen) my opinions of each Batman film.


So next I'll do...

So I'll start with...

Southern Virginia University students are invited to submit their favorite or best photograph they took over spring break 2012. The winning photographer will receive a $15 iTunes gift card, second place will receive a $5 gift card, and the third place winner will receive a signed photograph of the Accolade News staff.

Be creative, express what you did during spring break. Show us how awesome your hard-earned vacation was.

All photos submitted will be showcased on &etc, and the winners will be posted on The Accolade News website. The contest closes on Saturday, March 31st at midnight. Please email all photo submissions to accoladenewsetc@gmail.com; remember, only one entry per person.

Good luck! 

In the spirit of awesome forums (I found last Friday's forum by Matthew Bowman particularly awsome) I decided I would make a list of my favorite forum speaches so far at Southern Virginia University. There are a lot that I like, but I decided the best way to do it was to choose my top 5.

Have you ever heard of the Glass Ceiling? The Glass Ceiling Congressional Commission defined it as "the unseen, yet unbreachable barrier that keeps minorities and women from rising to the upper rungs of the corporate ladder, regardless of their qualifications or achievements." Multiple spinoffs describe the invisible barrier in other professions and groups; including the Brass Ceiling (law enforcement and military), the Bamboo Ceiling (Asian Americans), and the Gray Ceiling (the lingering baby boomers keeping younger stock from moving up).  Now that we are familiar with the Glass Ceiling can you guess what the Paper Ceiling is?

 

Hipster. A word with an elusive definition, leaving behind - without fail - the question, what is a hipster?

Let's be honest here. I haven't the faintest idea. Countless people have tried to describe to me the hipster, and I've yet to truly understand what/who a hipster is. It's a topic of constant debate in our Accolade News meetings, usually ending with one among our ranks tossing his hands up with an exasperated "I don't understand what a hipster is!"

I feel like that quite often.