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Ph.D destined

Students interested in pursuing a Ph.D. after leaving Furman may just find themselves ideally positioned to prepare to take that step. The Survey of Earned Doctorates, an annual census of all new research doctorate recipients...

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Tancredo rails against ‘cult of multiculturalism’

OCTOBER 19, 2011 by Chloe Kowalski ’12, Contributing Writer Rocks breaking windows and yells of violent protest prevented Tom Tancredo from speaking on immigration policy at the University of North Carolina in 2009. But on...

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Gowdy discusses Tea Party, downgrade and debt

OCTOBER 21, 2011 by William Mitchell '13, Contributing Writer Representative Trey Gowdy addressed a thinly populated Patrick Lecture Hall Wednesday night in a lecture on the debt, the downgrade and the Tea Party in America....

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Mock Trial team wins Robert E. Sanders Invitational

NOVEMBER 2, 2011 by Katie Love '12, Media Relations The Furman mock trial team won first place in the Robert E. Sanders Mock Trial Invitational tournament held this past weekend in Lexington, Ky. The tournament,...

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Is global capitalism the solution to world poverty?

NOVEMBER 17, 2011 By Summer Woods '14, Contributing Writer What if there were a country with a government that placed no limits on industry? Andrew Bernstein, a philosopher and author, asked this question during a...

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Can Christians be capitalists?

NOVEMBER 18, 2011 By Zachary Treu '13, Contributing Writer On a chilly Thursday night, Jay Richards addressed a crowd of about 50 in the Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow Cultural Life Program "Can Christians...

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Discussing the state’s immigration law

NOVEMBER 20, 2011 By Emily Mitchell ’14, Contributing Writer For the curious and determined, verbatim copies of the new S.C. immigration law are freely available online. However, its language is so difficult and unwieldy that Furman students seemed...

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Speaker articulates pro-life argument

JANUARY 23, 2012 by Summer Woods ’14, Contributing Writer “Daddy, can I kill this?” While at first glance this question appears to have nothing to do with the ongoing Republican primaries, Scott Klusendorf believes that...

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Keene: “Guns save lives”

MARCH 23, 2012 by Shannice Singletary '14, Contributing Writer “Our influence, our ability to protect the second amendment, comes from you . . . and if we don’t renew those rights, then our rights will...

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Joseph A. Vaughn Benefit concert to be held on Jan. 28

January 20, 2012 Tina T. Underwood, Media Relations A concert benefiting Furman's Joseph Allen Vaughn Scholarship fund will be held Saturday, Jan. 28 at 7 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall. Tickets are $15 for reserved...

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The least bad option: Sweatshops in the developing world

FEBRUARY 10, 2012 by William Mitchell ’14, Contributing Writer “Bad jobs at bad wages are better than no jobs at all.” This is a controversial statement from a controversial speaker, but Benjamin Powell is used...

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Furman team earns trip to Mock Trial championship

MARCH 27, 2012 by Tina Underwood, Media Relations Furman earned its 16th consecutive trip to the American Mock Trial Association’s championship finals with a strong performance in the Ney National Tournament held on campus March...

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