Apparently, group fitness classes aren’t just for the dedicated followers of Billy Blanks or Richard Simmons. When my roommate asked me to sign up with her for one of the 10-week classes being offered at the Carneval Athletic Pavilion, the cardio one to be exact, I wondered whether we would be sharing Steps with soccer [...]
What do you get when you cross a tap dancer with a hip-hop dancer, a percussionist, an acrobat and a full-fledged badass? A STOMP performer, of course. Though they never plugged in a single amplifier, STOMP’s Feb. 13 performance at the Warner Theatre was nothing short of electric. It was clear from the first several [...]
The fliers for a missing Erie teen have been scattered around Gannon University’s campus for the past couple weeks, but it wasn’t until two recent search attempts on Feb. 12 and Feb. 17 that Gannon students began to get involved. David Okienko, a senior criminal justice major, said he had seen the fliers with 17-year-old [...]
We have a running joke here at The Knight that, despite the hours we editors spend toiling away into the wee hours of the morning each Tuesday, no one actually reads the finished product in the days that follow. I know this is an exaggeration, but the fact that we are never able to have [...]
The Gannon University women’s basketball team will look to bounce back after a tough road stretch in which they went 1-1, earning a decisive 60-52 win over IUP but falling to Cal by a score of 81-73. The Cal loss was the first time the Knights have given up 80 points since the Vulcans tallied [...]
Several members of the Gannon University community were caught off guard around 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6, when a series of alarming tweets from Erie Alerts detailed a burglary in progress at 231 W. Third St. Mitch Carroll, a junior criminal justice major, said he was at the Knights’ wrestling match when he overheard [...]
Political cartoons have always been an enigma to me. I’m not exceptionally well-versed in politics, despite the best efforts of my high school history teachers. So when confronted with a political cartoon that I know instinctively must somehow be witty or scathing, I usually am forced to just shrug my shoulders. If it doesn’t involve [...]
Valentine’s Day – is it a Hallmark holiday, a chance to score some paper Valentines and chocolate or a truly heartfelt day that gives couples the chance to show each other how much they care? Perhaps it includes a bit of all of those, though according to Barbara Townsend, an instructor in Gannon University’s psychology [...]
While there may be warnings against having too many cooks in the kitchen, several faculty members at Gannon University have proven that the same rule may not apply to the number of teachers in the classroom. The practice of “team teaching” is starting to gain popularity in the humanities, and is allowing what Jeff Bloodworth [...]
I am rarely moved to comment on Facebook statuses that are clearly intended to spark an argument, but I felt genuinely disturbed by one that a distant relative of mine had posted that read something like this: “My 10-year-old is in tears. He is mad at the injustice of abortion and doesn’t understand the point [...]