EMILY COWLES STAFF WRITER At the beginning of fall term, Professor Henry Balfanz’s Selling/Sales Management class was given an assignment called an Elevator Speech and was instructed to write about problems in Alma’s campus community. These speeches were then presented to Alan Gatlin, chief operating officer (COO) and senior vice president for finance and administration.... Continue Reading →
JORDYN BRADLEY SPORTS EDITOR Dr. Kathleen Dougherty is Alma College’s new Provost, filling the position previously held by Dr. Michael Selmon for fifteen years. Dougherty took over the position on July 1st. “I spent [many] years as a faculty member before I moved on to administration, so I spent a lot of time teaching,” said... Continue Reading →
KELSEY TAYLOR COPY EDITOR On Thursday, October 25, Northanger Abbey opens at Strosacker Theatre. The production incorporates a cast of over 20 students, costumes in 1800s style and sets mimicking the era of Jane Austen, all of which help the novel come to life. Scott Mackenzie, director of Northanger Abbey, also adapted the original Austen... Continue Reading →
WADE FULLERTON STAFF WRITER The annual celebration of Columbus Day, a nationally celebrated holiday since the mid-nineteenth century, is a topic of avid debate. Columbus Day--occuring on October 12th-- conjures a complex story of America. Columbus Day is a holiday that is celebrated in many countries in the Americas and commemorates Columbus’s first voyage to... Continue Reading →
TREY NICHOLS STAFF WRITER There are different ways to learn on campus. Professors teach groups of students in classrooms about subjects pertaining to students’ majors. A form of teaching that is appearing more often is the Google Classroom setting. Classes that are taught in Google Classroom styles perform the same functions, but they include students... Continue Reading →
KATE WESTPHAL STAFF WRITER The Spanish flu is coming back to Alma, but not in the form of the annual bouts of the Alma Plague. A First Year Seminar, led by Associate Professor of History Kristin Olbertson, is taking a look one hundred years back in history to the Spanish flu epidemic that arrived in... Continue Reading →
ZAC CAHILL COPY EDITOR On Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m., English Professor Robert Vivian gave a reading of poems from his latest book, “Immortal Soft Spoken,” a collection of what he dubs “dervish essays;” the book is his second written in this style. The dervish essay, as conceived by Vivian, is a prose poem “driven... Continue Reading →
JORDYN BRADLEY SPORTS EDITOR Suicide Prevention week activities were led by Alma’s Active Minds organization over the last week in an effort to bring awareness to the importance of mental health. Suicide was the tenth leading cause of death overall in the United States and there were more than twice as many suicides in the... Continue Reading →
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