Author Archives | Nicole Zukowski

Ringing in Lunar New Year

The Lunar New Year was brought in with a celebration at Wilkes University. The Wilkes University Asian Culture Club hosted a Chinese New Year celebration last wednesday so that the Wilkes community could embrace the Chinese culture. Each lunar new year is marked with a symbolic animal and natural element. The current new year will be the […]

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She said: “Why can’t we be friends?”

The age old question: can you have just a friendship with the opposite sex? In the simplest definition of friendships, dynamic interactions between two people over a time period that could last months to years and even decades, one would think the answer to this question should not be so complex. “At some point you […]

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College: a doorstep to professional success

The morning of the big interview is a jittery time in one’s life. Stress bubbles up in one’s stomach thinking about the questions that will be asked. When getting dressed one spends a lot of time picking out an outfit that says “yes I’m in college but I’m also a professional”. The outfit is not […]

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Nurse from Tanzania recently visited Wilkes

With a scarce amount of available health care and limited resources, over 30% of children have been left orphaned by HIV AIDS in Tanzania. It is Zebra Communications’, a student-run public relations firm,  intent to help provide for these children. Over the past four years, Zebra has raised over $13,000 to help provide orphaned children […]

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Remembering ‘The Great War’: After 100 years, lecture to commemorate those who served

For many, there are grandfathers or great-grandfathers who share stories of being shipped to foreign soils in the name of protecting freedom for all. Whether the experience served as a rewarding or devastating experience, the events witnessed are some that have lived on for 100 years and can be expected to live on for hundreds […]

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She said: expression of femininity

A woman with high heels, lipstick, a nicely pressed dress with an apron and a string of pearls around the neck holding an apple pie that just came out of the oven. A woman wearing running sneakers, mesh shorts and hair tied back with a headband soaking up sweat from jogging 5 miles. With the […]

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Students get intouch with their sexual side at Sex Jeopardy

“STDs for 400,” said a member of the Sexy Narwhals team last tuesday night. Phrases like that were heard by Wilkes students were educated about matters of sexual education when Anne Holmes visited campus on Feb. 3. It all happened in the ballroom of the Student Union Building, where blow-pops flew about, where chuckles were […]

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She Said: The unspoken rules of dating and relationships

Three hour shopping trip for just the right outfit, 30 minute shower, 35 minutes of making every strand of hair on your head perfect, 15 minutes of putting on makeup, and 10 minutes of changing outfits because you were convinced the other one made you look fat. Four and a half hours to accomplish a […]

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A sassy trailer park community visits Wilkes

A dysfunctional trailer park community, with all its hoot and howls, will soon be taking up home on the stage of the Dorothy Dickson Center. The Wilkes Department of Visual and Performing Arts presents “The Great American Trailer Park Musical.” The musical will be showing on Feb. 13, 14, 20 and 21 at 8 P.M. […]

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When one plus one equals three

The expression goes ‘it takes two to tango’. One man and one woman dance the night away under the sheets and nine months later a baby is staring up at them. They are now new parents. But how did this happen? She was on the pill. Last Tuesday night BACCHUS held “Sexual Jeopardy” in the […]

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