Monthly Archives: April 2010

SPOTLIGHT ON ARIELLE HESSE: EMS STUDENT MARSHALL

It’s hard to picture someone who in just four years will graduate with more than 180 credits and with three majors: Geography, French, and Jewish Studies. Along the way she has accumulated 18 prestigious awards including being named the student… Continue reading

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LAYING OUT OR LYING OUT?

Grab your sunscreen, your books, your blanket–and the correct lie/lay verb and catch some rays on the Hub Lawn.But what is correct? Should you say, “I’m going to lay out in the sun,” or “I’m laying out”?Or should you say,… Continue reading

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SPLITTING INFINITIVES

Do you split hairs over split infinitives? Inserting an adverb between to and the verb–splitting an infinitive–is often given more attention than it deserves. Many have learned that it should never be done. Are you surprised to learn that in… Continue reading

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