Hello readers of the Scroll. As the semester draws to a close, we would like to ask you to take the time to fill out this brief survey to let us know how we are doing. If you have any concerns or really like things that we are doing, please

Congratulations to you seniors who are counting the days (or months) until graduation. With commencement near on the horizon, some of you may feel excited about finally putting your skills to work and moving forward in this next chapter in life. But others of you may also feel anxious or

Ah, how much one learns from past years of stress and awkwardness! What, you ask, do I speak of? Prom, of course! You remember: wishing you could invite that girl, wondering if you should go with friends, trying not to stress because prom isn’t nearly as crazy as all the

College has always been a breeding ground for stress, sickness, and overwhelming emotion. The quest for hygiene and healthy living styles in cramped, stuffy dorm rooms is difficult, but there are easy ways to combat smelly roommates and increase the health benefits of your dorm room. Now that Spring has

Information has always been an important aspect in our daily lives. To spread information, mankind has developed many creative ways of communication. From the days of messengers sent by kings to deliver a message, to Scrolls (the Cairn Scroll?) containing information, to using pigeons, telegrams, telephones, e-mails, text messages. The

Dear Students, the Scroll in recent days has devoted a great deal of its time to opinion pieces and event reporting rather than reporting on campus updates and policy changes.  Hopefully this helpful guide for April will become a staple in the paper for your convenience! Firstly, it is my

Hello all you bloggers, you Tumblr dreamers and world-builders, you who sometimes prefer books to people, who have a couple characters who annoy you between classes because they want to be more developed. You, who have seen the “Short story writing competition” posters but aren’t sure whether to enter or

The brutal scent of arctic weather chills the swirling air.  The clatter of a car engine struggling to start makes joyous harmony with the deadening silence of the gathering piles of snow. Running behind your time, tires squealing, you take turns like a caffeined-up Mario Andretti, groaning as you skid

Wait, that’s this week?  It can’t be this week. Sweet St. Ambrose it is this week!  Battle stations! Battle stations, man the lifeboats, buy the flowers! Well hello again Cairn university, we find ourselves again at the center of the maelstrom of hormones and excess spending: Valentine’s Day!  How did

Last week, millions of people throughout the world celebrated an important holiday. The Chinese or Lunar new year is a holiday that is widely celebrated in many Asian countries as a start to the Lunar Calendar, usually in January or February. Growing up in a Chinese Indonesian family, the Chinese