Ryan Mulloy

In the late hours of the night and the early hours of the morning, campus remains almost pitch black. Learning centers are locked tight with no sign of light inside. The Widener Center Food Court does not normally open until 7:30 a.m., but the lights and cameras of Fox News were shining brightly as early as 4:30 a.

Over sabbatical, a campus professor started writing a play the ended up being produced by a local theater company. Now, the play on tape, is coming to Founder's Hall for a faculty audience and the possibility of a campus release. In April, Dr. Sharon Schwarze, the department chair of the philosophy department, on sabbatical, decided to begin writing monologues and dialogue in an attempt to learn how to write a play.

Always one to be against the music industry and record labels, Tom Petty is back with another CD that takes a swing at authority. After the stripped down success of the 2000 release, "Echo," wasn't as successful, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers hit the studio to produce a CD with their unique themes to produce their 12th CD, "The Last DJ.

Bon Jovi is releasing a new CD as a follow-up to the multi-platinum "Crush," released in 2000. The new CD, "Bounce," is being released on Oct. 8. Isn't there a problem with a 1980s hair band like Bon Jovi releasing a CD in the 2000s? Absolutely not. In the wake of Sept.

Forty licks. Twenty-one songs. Four Rolling Stones. Nine additional singers and musicians. 45,000 screaming fans. A two hour and ten minute rock show. Chance to see the Stones in a stadium venue for the first time: Priceless. The Rolling Stones, one of the longest running rock and roll bands on the market, recently finished up their stay in the City of Brotherly Love after shows at Veterans stadium, the First Union Center and the Tower Theater, touring behind their newly remastered CDs, covering the first decade of their career, and a new, two-CD greatest hit compilation called, "40 Licks.

Walking into the room is like stepping into something out of a war zone. In the corner is a trash bag filled so high that the edges of it are spilling over with old pizza, cake and beer bottles, while the holes on the bottom of the bag are poking through to the floor, covered in a gray ash.