In “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” director Peter Jackson’s epic vision of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, which has spanned the past 13 years, has finally come to a conclusion. This...

Ericka Buitenhuis (and Hayley Cox) As the rush of finals week begins to wind down, first semester comes to a long-awaited close and students begin perusing various class textbook lists for second semester,...