Jeffrey Dahmer’s neighbor
February 6, 2012
Filed under Features, Features, Multimedia, Video
The DEC interviews the former neighbor of the infamous Jeffrey Dahmer.
Behind the scenes of Sleepy Hollow
January 12, 2012
Filed under Featured Multimedia, Features, Features, Multimedia, Video
Anita Renfroe and Anna Marker follow the cast and crew of Decatur’s Fall Musical and share a behind the scenes look at what went into the production.
Crafting a new kind of game
August 23, 2011 • Dylan St. John, Carpe Diem Staff
Filed under Features
Creating a video game can be as complex as filming a Hollywood movie. Today’s mainstream video game takes around a year to develop and, on average, costs over $20 million. The process involves meticulous planning, intense, drawn-out development and tedious pre-release testing. Despite all of this,... Read more »
Clever with cotton
August 23, 2011 • Hannah Reiss, Carpe Diem Staff
Filed under Features, Student Life
Freshman John Hughes sits down and sketches the joker from “The Dark Knight” – he saw the movie a few weeks ago and especially liked the character. But he’s not sketching on paper, he’s sketching on cloth. Once he’s done coloring, he’ll cut out his picture and have his mom sew it on a shirt.... Read more »
There’s still hope for the humans
August 22, 2011 • Sam McLemore, Carpe Diem Staff
Filed under Features, News
Sorry cockroaches, humans might outlast you. In recent years, the issues of global warming, the energy crisis and resource depletion have become mainstream doomsday topics. Even though the end of the world might seem imminent, green technology is fighting back. Since World War II, American prosperity... Read more »
Their only constant
August 19, 2011 • Sharlie Goodson, Carpe Diem Staff
Filed under Features
One of my earliest memories is me being held by mom, and I’m standing between my parents and I tell them to stop fighting. At that point I knew something bad was happening and that some things needed to be changed,” sophomore Mollie-Emma O’Neil said. When senior Boone O’Neil was five and his... Read more »
Away for the summer
August 16, 2011 • Claire DePree, Carpe Diem staff
Filed under Features
BRIDGET JOHNSON, ten years at Camp Juliette Low WEIRDEST CAMP MOMENT: “We discovered the ghost on a late night trip to the bathroom. There are four stalls, so I tried going in the second one. It was locked. There are two locks on the stalls; one on the outside, and one on the inside for privacy.... Read more »
Breaking barriers
August 5, 2011 • Evan Kiely, Carpe Diem Staff
Filed under Features
Sophomore Zack Loehle changes immediately as he steps onto the mat. Having described himself as socially awkward before, he now looks centered and relaxed as he stands among his fellow black-belts. His shoulders roll back and he appears bigger and more in control than ever before. As the instructor calls... Read more »
Dream on
August 4, 2011 • Rachel Reuter, Carpe Diem staff
Filed under Features, Uncategorized
Dom Cobb is a thief, but not the kind that breaks into jewelry shops during the early hours of the morning. Instead, he steals secrets from deep within the mind while it is at its most vulnerable state. Cobb uses a special machine called a Portable Automated Somnacin IntraVenous (PASIV) device to access... Read more »
Dyslexia has advantages
August 4, 2011 • Matthew Tanner, Carpe Diem staff
Filed under Features
Many famous and significant figures have dealt with dyslexia – from Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill and Henry Ford, to Leonardo Da Vinci, John Lennon and George Washington. Obviously, this condition does not prevent people from doing amazing things. Developmental reading disorder, also called dyslexia,... Read more »
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