Cole Hall will be closed for the rest of the semester and will be knocked down this spring, with construction on the new Memorial Hall to be completed by the 2010 school year. [Northern Star, Trib] more ›

This week marked the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the only wartime deployment of nuclear weaponry, hastening Japanese surrender to the Allies and the end of World War II. The calm, measured accounts of history books can’t approach the horror that the Axis powers were inflicting upon the world and the subsequent horror of hundreds of thousands of Hiroshima and Nagasaki residents perishing in the blasts and subsequent aftermaths. The necessity of... more ›