Mountain Echo

Issue Summary

News

• Freshmen officers elected
• Mount Card Fiasco
• Faculty, staff vow to alter their appearance for fundraiser
• Falsified e-mails sent to campus in phishing scam
• Local gas station runs on empty
• Mount hosts kick-off for Relay for Life
• Mount News Briefs
• Out of service water basin causes sewage smell
• Towers lose AC in rare occurrence

Life

• Brendan McNulty: Culture Shock
• Students 'spare' their money at Sunshine Lanes
• Successful Family Fest Weekend 2008 leaves face, sun shining
• The Mount 'Gets the Gist': Seniors produce snowboarding documentary
• Theater program views loss of Flynn as a beneficial challenge

Forum

• Letter to the Editor: Family first, part second?
• Ryan Breslin: Free food? Sign me up

Religion

• Bishops utilize Facebook, YouTube to reach Catholic voters
• Erica George: Rock what you've got
• Platform for common good
• Pope Benedict XVI Visits France
• Senior Erink Knoll takes mission trip to Ethiopia

Sports

• Brad Gerick: Do me a Favre-r
• MSOCCER: Howard falls, Loyola escapes
• WSOCCER: Women's week a rollercoaster
• TENNIS: In openers vs. Shepherd, women win, men lose
• TRACK: Ryan leads cross country again, Kessler is top female runner
• WTENNIS: Johnson reaches consolation final at Bucknell Invitational