NEWS | Rushed through the slightly chaotic lobby, people took any available space in the elevator to the stands above.

NEWS | The commotion of energetic chants in front of Memorial Hall took place a little earlier this year.

NEWS | Booth, a professor of economics and business, graduated from Whittier College.

NEWS | His idea was motivated by a posse of naked women.

NEWS | Some Chapman students don’t seem to know when to quit.

NEWS | For Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) fraternity members, brotherhood goes beyond blood.

NEWS | Chapman’s Newman Catholic Fellowship invited attendants to bring their pets to mass at the Fish Interfaith Center on Oct. 1 in honor of St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals, the environment and Italy.

NEWS | When Donald Booth first signed on as an instructor of economics at Chapman in 1959, it wasn’t a university yet.

NEWS | Hands Across the Planet to Poor Youth, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life in Ethiopia, is working on a water treatment project that will filter water so the people of the Abi Adi village in Tambien province can have clean drinking water.

NEWS | Chapman’s English department is currently searching for a new department chair after the former chair, Richard Ruppel, resigned in May 2008.

NEWS | Debórah Dwork, a Holocaust historian and acclaimed author, spoke about the intellectual and cultural life that Jews created in Terezin, a Nazi transit camp in the Czech Republic, in Memorial Hall on Sept. 23.

NEWS | When he was 12 years old, Robert Fisk wanted to be like fictional reporter Huntley Haverstock.

NEWS | Chapman’s Department of Dance became an accredited organization on Friday, Sept. 12.

NEWS | Professor Tony Alosi teaches screenwriting but also ventured into directing for his first full-length film, “Eastern State: Living Behind the Walls.”

NEWS | Orange Police officers arrested Elias Louis Velez after allegations that he was peering into the window of a female student’s room in Glass Hall on Sept. 22.

NEWS | Some people insist on peppering politics with the grains of religion, while others prefer politics plain.

NEWS | John McCain was present at the Sept. 26 presidential debate. Missing though, from Chapman at least, were the College Republicans.

NEWS | From selling ice cream to furnishing high-end homes in Beverly Hills, Chapman senior Andres Muller has never been the type to let a good business idea pass him by.

NEWS | The party was on in Sin City. The Democratic Party, that is.

NEWS | Members of the Orange County Bomb Squad and their canine partners are training today on the Chapman University campus.

NEWS | It’s a community dinner – for two.

NEWS | While politicians and activists preach the benefits of greener living, Chapman students are taking a grass roots approach to saving the planet.

NEWS | Just four weeks into the 2008-2009 school year, the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs and Dean of Students is looking for a new assistant dean of students and director of student conduct.

NEWS | The Economic Science Institute has paid just under $7,000 to about 200 students for participating in an experiment to determine how trustworthy people are when handling other people’s money.

NEWS | Since the start of the semester on Aug. 25, there have been seven bicycle thefts reported to Public Safety. At this time last year, there were none.

NEWS | Chapman’s neighbors are not happy.