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Finals suck. For more reasons than the obvious. You are imprisoned to the indoors to study. Your body goes into hibernation mode from all the bundled layers (but really, how else will you survive the bone-chilling wind?). And you are practically a vegetable, sitting all day in an over-sized leather chair starring at your computer. It’s [...]

By: Colleen DuVall One of the biggest challenges during the winter: finding the motivation to keep up with an exercise routine. Like bears, the urge to hole-up and hibernate is strong. But part of the trick is to shake things up and try something new. A workout that feels more like play than exercise can [...]

By: Colleen DuVall Family. Christmas cookies. No homework. What could be wrong with any of these homey images, right? Well if you want to be able to face the numbers on the scale come Jan. 17, you should have a game plan. Here are some smart tips for eating right over winter break. Find your [...]

By: Jacob Born Albert Pujols can make his case for being the greatest baseball player in the post-steroid era, and for being possibly the best player to ever play the game. As the first basemen for the St. Louis Cardinals, Pujols has had a historic opening for his career. He is the only player to [...]

Instead of gravitating to Netflix for a mental break, why don’t you chew these perspectives over: M. Scott Peck argues that we are all born narcissists and that learning to grow out of our narcissism is at the heart of the spiritual journey.  Jean Vanier wrote, love is to “reveal the beauty of another person [...]

Thanksgiving’s past and boy has it gotten cold out.  There are only about three weeks left of the first semester of school and with classes, papers, projects, and finals, the last thing anyone wants to worry about is getting sick. The temperatures are dropping and snow should (hopefully) be on its way here. Wisconsinites and [...]