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The Tower – April 20th, 2018
Click here for our newest edition! Year 95, Edition #24 In this week’s edition: Media & Communication Studies Department to be retained in School of Arts & Sciences University announces speaker for 129th Commencement Ceremony Founders Day and Odyssey Day considered a financial success Op-ed: It’s Not Easy Being Green Op-ed: A psychological look at empty Read More …
Former First Lady Barbara Bush Passes Away
By Alexander Santana America lost a much beloved and admired first lady with the tragic passing of Barbara Bush, the wife of the 41st President George H.W. Bush and the mother of the 43rd President George W. Bush. Barbara Pierce Bush passed away on Tuesday, April 17th at the age of 92 surrounded by her Read More …
Media Department to be Retained in School of Arts and Sciences
By Duane Paul Murphy The Catholic University of America’s provost and Academic Senate have decided to keep the Media and Communication Studies department within the university’s School of Arts and Sciences. The decision to keep the department came last week on Thursday, April 12th. Originally, the Provost proposed the consolidation of the Benjamin T. Rome Read More …
University Announces Speaker for 129th Commencement Ceremony
By Jimmy Cassidy In an announcement Monday, April 16th, the university announced Archbishop of Los Angeles José Gomez as the commencement speaker for this year’s graduation ceremonies. Gomez will address the class of 2018 at Catholic’s 129th annual Commencement Ceremony on May 12th. Gomez, who will receive an honorary fine arts doctoral degree, currently serves Read More …
Founders Day and Odyssey Day Considered a Financial Success
By Abby Anderko This past week, the university hosted two big events, Founders Day Challenge and Odyssey Day. Both of these events generated publicity for the university, but more importantly, they also helped the university with its future in financial status and enrollment goals. On Tuesday, April 10th, the university celebrated its annual Founder’s Day, Read More …
Editorial: A Year in Review
By The Tower Staff As another school year at Catholic University comes to a bittersweet close, students in all majors are both looking forward to beach days and looking back on fond memories shared with their classmates. It was a great year for the Cardinals in the field, in the classroom, and at the Hill, Read More …
Op-ed: A Psychological Look at Empty Nesters
By Bo Williams, Class of 2018 When a child goes off to college, it is not simply returning to school after summer break. Whether it is going off to a four-year university or a junior college, it is an important transition into adulthood. Legally speaking, an adult is defined as anyone over 18 years old, Read More …
Op-ed: It’s Not Easy Being Green
By Tim Jones, Luke Cocchi, Omer Qureshi, & Will Flood Earth Day is this upcoming Sunday, April 22nd. On this day, many of us in our campus community will take some sort of action to help our planet. Maybe we will plant a tree, maybe participate in a river clean up, or maybe even take Read More …
Farmers Market Season is Here in Brookland
By Daniela Sol This weekend marks the beginning of the the Monroe Street Market Farmers Market. The market is opening its doors to visitors this Saturday and all Saturdays hereafter, from 9 AM to 1 PM at the Arts Walk in Brookland, D.C. Although spring this year has pretty much been a tease, going from Read More …
Kanye 2020! Thoughts on His Twitter Rant
By Daniela Sol After one long hibernation, Kanye West has made one heck of an appearance back on good ol’ Twitter. On April 12th, the rapper braced his followers with a masterpiece of a tweet. “Often people working with the existing consciousness are jealous of those who are more in touch and they become hard-core Read More …