Kelly McKee

With the bronzed look currently en vogue and skimpy clothing shunning the wooly wraps of winter, the pressure is on for teens to be tan. It is well known that the teenage years are when we are most impressionable and concerned to conform. Realizing this, the World Health Organization supported by the American Academy of Dermatology Association (ADDA) is taking on the tanning industry for their services to minors.

Late on Monday, March 28, a powerful earthquake struck off Indonesia's west coast killing hundreds of people and demolishing villages. Panic quickly spread across the Indian Ocean that another killer tsunami like that of Dec. 26, was on the way, but studies have quashed that fear.

Letter-writing parties until midnight, pizza, movies and massages are just part of the rewards that Up 'Til Dawn offers students, the biggest being helping kids with terminal cancer. The 14 member executive board has selflessly labored all year to plan and coordinate fundraising events that will climax with the finale party on Friday, March 18, in the Dixon Center.

Ibrahim Jafari has been chosen by the elected Shiites as their leader after months of speculation and many voters risking their lives. The winning slate of the elections picked the leader of the country's oldest Islamist party to head the government on Feb.

America's college students control more money than the national debt of some small countries. Together they spend more than $19 billion dollars a year. No wonder they are the perfect prey for credit card companies who hope to reel them in with incentives of a cool free t-shirt or stuffed animal.

Kelly McKee Staff Writer Kmm723@cabrini.edu The SAT will reemerge from months of development as the "New SAT." Effective March 18, the new test is designed to revamp America's education system and accordingly strike fear into the hearts and minds of teenagers throughout the country.