While preparing for midterms, junior business major Karl Willis thinks back to how school back home would just be beginning. “The semesters are a lot shorter,” Willis said. “They’re only twelve weeks, so if I was back home I would have been starting Sept. 26.” Willis, who is from Northern

26: Let that number sink in for a moment. That’s the number of police officers nationwide that have been shot and killed in the line of duty since the beginning of this year, according odmp.org. According to a report published by NBC News in February, there was a total of