It was like watching Wii come to life, but with sex, drugs, and politics.

Reading “Final Salute,” Jim Sheeler’s account of Marines whose job it was to notify families of the deaths of their sons in Iraq, I was changed. For the first time I suffered a little. I felt, through the writing, enough of the pain of war to make me cry.

A short put together from CageFest 9 @ Old Dominion University’s The Ted. The fight was between undefeated George “Lights Out” Sheppard and Scott Monish.

It’s right now through Friday. The theme is “Writers in Peace and War.” With writers like Steve Almond, Mark Bowden, and Jane Mayer coming to our sleepy ultra militarized area, expect (literary) bullets to fly.

“I opened the box from my publisher, saw my book, and bawled like a baby,” said recent ODU MFA grad Sarah McCoy about the culmination of the process.

A crowd of students gathered on campus last night to snatch up football tickets. But what, really, are they expecting ODU (and by proxy, themselves) to gain from having a big time football team?

A primer on all the ways ODU is leading the pack when it comes to greening the campus, including such innovations as a water cistern under Foreman Field and using tree trimmings to feed hippos at Norfolk Zoo.

Dr. Alexander Treviño’s office in the Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center at Old Dominion University serves many functions: storeroom, office, de facto conductor’s chambers (where Treviño does his seamstress work), and military-style recruitment and operations center. It also has the only blue door in the building.