Forest Park students who have class on Thursday, July 3, might want to arrive early. Renovations on the Gateway Arch grounds have led officials to move Fair St. Louis to Forest Park over Fourth of July weekend. St. Louis Community College at Forest Park will help by allowing the public to use its parking lots. […]
Forest Park’s award-winning architecture includes a giant sunken fountain in the center of campus. But it’s been years since it sprayed any water. “I didn’t know the fountain existed,” said David Aktol, 25, a network engineering major. “If it was working, I would’ve known there was a fountain at Forest Park.” […]
The Forest Park Chess Club is returning to campus this fall after a hiatus of several years. The organizers are Music Program Coordinator Tom Zirkle and Copy Technician Tom Rogers. They play pick-up games at 1:30 p.m. most Tuesdays in the cafeteria. On some days, more than a dozen students and staff members stop by to watch. […]
Some people walk past feathers on the ground and pay no attention. Forest Park student Don Wilson sees art. “They’re neat,” he said. “They’re different.”
Wilson particularly likes their tactile feel. “If you take a ruffled feather and smooth it, it is soothing,” he said. “And if you ruffle somebody’s feathers, you outta smooth (them).” […]
Like many students, I had a hardtime choosing a college major. I enrolled at Forest Park after high school without a clue about what I wanted to do, but no one seemed to think it was a problem. “You’ll eventually figure it out,” my parents said. Then after three semesters, that became “Have you figured it out, yet?” I considered several majors, including sociology, philosophy and English literature. It would have been hard to accuse me of being a pragmatist. When I started writing for The Scene a few semesters back, I became convinced that journalism was for me. […]
I have a confession to make: I love reality TV. Each week, I carve time out of my hectic schedule of school, work and family to glue myself to the couch and absorb all the garbage being thrown at me from the television. And yes, I realize the shows are scripted. Do the producers really expect us to believe the Kardashians work out all their family problems by the end of each hour-long episode? Or what about the raunchy show “Love and Hip Hop Atlanta”? No way would Kirk have the audacity to play his wife like that on national television. […]
Are you aware that hate is a learned behavior? Oh yes, my friends, learned. By everyone it seems – family, friends, peers, acquaintances. No one is safe. Hate can breed like a gaggle of KKK rabbits. It knows no boundaries in terms of race, ethnicity, sex, age, economics, social status or common sense. Let me tell you about one of my early lessons in racial understanding. On a Saturday evening in 1972, my father, a Shriner, took us to the Cincinnati convention center to see the Shrine circus. Lions, tigers, bears, oh my! On the way home, my father casually told my brother and I, “No work, no ball.” […]
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