Megan Brittain is not a bit shy, and as the 11-year-old perched on the back of a convertible during Jacksonville's Christmas parade on Tuesday, she soaked up the experience with a bright smile on her face.
With a blue toboggan on, you would never at first glance know that Megan has cancer. On this night, the Southerners marched for her.
All the trappings of a public demonstration were there: a stage, a microphone, loudspeakers. The one thing missing from the College Council for Constitutional Reform's (CCCR) reading of the 1901 Alabama Constitution was people.
A $1200 round-trip plane ticket and a 17-hour flight stand between JSU student Sachio Arai and his home in Tokyo, Japan, but Arai is still determined to head home for the holidays.
While nearly 93 percent of Jacksonville State University students enrolled in the fall of 2006 lived nearby in Alabama or Georgia, JSU was also home to 233 international students that same year. Students from the most far-reaching corners of the world gather at JSU to study and soak up American culture, but when school ceases for holiday breaks, international students are faced with a dilemma.
Imagine a world where a shoebox is a treasure chest, and the smallest gifts are riches to be cherished.
Dr. George Lauderbaugh, associate professor of history at Jacksonville State University, no longer has to imagine such a place.
Lauderbaugh is teaming up with the History Club and Phi Alpha Theta, which is the international history honor society, for the sixth time to host a shoebox gift drive for impoverished Guatemalan children.
There are notable differences in how first-year students and seniors perceive the academic and social experiences they receive at JSU, according to a new national survey.
This weekend, auditions were held for this year's Spirit Drum and Bugle Corps. The auditions were held as an open-house camp, and anyone between the ages of 16 and 21 was welcome to try out. About 300 attended, and they ranged from students here at Jacksonville State University to young adults from all over the country.
Joshua Morrison is the founder and the director of Gaming Environmentally Educated Kids, also called Geeks in the Woods. Geeks in the Woods is an organization that promotes outdoor activities over playing video games and listening to mp3 players. The Web site is http://www.geeksinthewoods.org.
Recently, Joshua has been invited to Washington, D.C., for the Weather Channel Forecast's Earth Summit. The Earth Summit is a three-day meeting that focuses on environmental educational campaigns, and it allows the student participants to deliberate with some of the greatest climatologists and other scientists from around the world.