Riot breaks out in Palestine over access to religious site

by: Lee Murphy, nation/world editor

Police were out in full force at one of Jerusalem’s holiest locations in response to a religiously-motivated street brawl between rioters and police.

As roughly 30,000 Jewish worshippers arrived at the western wall of the Temple Mount in early October for the traditional blessing on the holiday of Sukkot, they were quickly set upon by over 150 Palestinian Muslims. The temple, holy to both faiths, was to only allow Jews to enter during Sukkot. Motivated by the denial of the temple to Muslims, the rioters began throwing rocks, bottles and insults at the Jews, who

Web habits now considered a medical problem

by: Lorenza Zebell, staff writer

For many people, it is all too easy to spend hours on frivolous internet activities such as Facebook and Youtube. Chat rooms, viral video sharing and status updates whittle away the time of millions of users every hour.

Until recently, the compulsion for computer usage would be dismissed as a result of too much free time, but studies like those conducted by Stanford University School of Medicine have provided reason to consider such activity to be a medical condition.

“It’s no wonder why the internet is so addicting to some. To our