Best-selling author Mitch Albom drew in students, faculty, and community members to pack the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts on Monday, kicking off the Student Affairs Lecture Series at Sacred Heart University. Mitch Albom is the best selling author of international bestselling books such as "Tuesdays with Morrie: an Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson," "The Five People you Meet in Heaven," and "For One More Day.
With the cost of just about everything going up these days, Sacred Heart University students now have another concern to add to that list: FLIK. The prices have in fact risen this past year and have caused distress upon the some of the students. "FLIK prices have gone through the roof," said senior Molly Rosa.
Poverty and homelessness are worldwide problems, but the Sacred Heart University chapter of Habitat for Humanity, a non-profit housing organization, is doing something about them. On Friday, Sep. 19 from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. Habitat for Humanity will be having their annual overnight sleepover.
Alison Cubbellotti seems like an average sophomore at Sacred Heart University. She lives on campus, goes to class and hangs out with her friends. Cubbellotti is not your average Sacred Heart student. She has been battling a chronic liver disease for the past 10 years and has been working to raise funds to find a cure.
Listen up. WSHU, Sacred Heart University's non-profit, on-campus, public radio station, was recently awarded eight state journalism awards. The two first prize awards, given to Erik Campano and Craig LeMoult, two of WSHU's reporters, were from the Connecticut Associated Press Broadcasters Association.
Couture was in high gear this week as New York City's Bryant Park hosted its annual New York Fashion Week, which began Sept. 5 and concluded Sept. 12. The debut of spring collections included its usual slew of famous designers such as Carolina Herrera, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, and many others.
Are you wondering what's set up in the William H. Pitt Center lobby? Well, if you stop and look, you'll see that it's an exhibit set up to showcase the "Adopt-a-Survivor" program. Sacred Heart University's Center for Christian-Jewish Understanding has sponsored this showcase in hopes of spreading a greater learning of the "Adopt-a-Survivor" program.