Kelly Mills
Summer Kent Stater

Stupid humor — it's part of what makes the "college" genre of movies thrive.

Like it or not, movies like National Lampoon's Van Wilder are part of the newest and hottest wave in movie scripts.

Skeptics may see previews for Without a Paddle, released in theaters this week, and think that it's just another mediocre movie with just enough plot to make at least half the jokes funny.

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Matthew Lillard, Dax Shepard and Seth Green star in the summer comedy Without a Paddle, which debuts this Friday.

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Jon Foster stars with Jeff Bridges and Kim Basinger in The Door in the Floor, a film directed by Tod Williams who debuted earlier with his screenplay for The Adventures of Sebastian Cole.

Jason C. LeRoy
Summer Kent Stater

When tragedy strikes, the people involved are left with some choices to make. Central among these choices is the matter of how to respond to what has happened.

We can respond the healthy way by acknowledging what has occurred, pursuing healing and moving forward, or we can choose to deny what has occurred on some level and return to life as we had known it before.

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