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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Photo by Marcelo Gonzales The 21 annual Window on the World festival bestowed its highest award to international peace advocate Linda Ragsdale on April 14. The Mandala Award honors a community member who embodies the theme of WOW by promoting intercultural understanding. This year’s recipient, Linda Ragsdale, is an award-winning […]
Children interested in learning about art may join artists and other art enthusiasts for the Appalachian Center for Craft’s 20th annual Celebration of Craft scheduled from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday. The open house features in-studio demonstrations of wood turning, glass blowing and blacksmithing. Children can try free […]
Photo by Daniel McGhee Violinist and peace advocate Sylvia Samis encouraged open discussion on combating hate crime at the One World Multicultural Evening Feb. 15 in RUC’s Tech Pride Room Samis immigrated to the United States when she was 3 years old with her parents, Isak Rosenzweig and Sabina Warshawsky Rosenzweig, […]
Activism in an educational setting is just as important as learning to read, write and calculate numbers, civil activist Andre Canty told Tech students Feb. 8. “When it comes to education, revolution should be as taught as the other R’s,” Canty said during his presentation “Reading, Riting, Rithmetic, and […]
The newly approved Students for Bio-Ethical Reform club are now seeking applications for leadership positions beginning in the current semester. The organization, whose mission is to “advocate through education for justice and the right to life for the preborn, the disabled, the infirm, the aged, and all vulnerable people,” according […]
Two weeks left and counting. As I write this, I am procrastinating. The cure to writer’s block is the procrastination of my other responsibilities. As of right now, I am avoiding eye contact with four papers, a presentation, one major final project and miscellaneous odds and ends that go hand […]
What were you doing at 9:30 Sunday night? Were you grabbing a snack out of the nearest vending machine before heading back to your room? Maybe you were with friends, cherishing the last few moments of the weekend before surrendering to sleep and Monday morning. Perhaps you were even studying, […]
Once again, I am trekking through campus in the dark, alone. Paranoia keeps my feet swift and my mind sharp. The rain pelts my face; the wind wrestles with my useless umbrella. I am trudging to my car, cursing commuter life and keeping an eye out for thugs lurking behind […]
THE FACE OF GRIEF – Friends and relatives of the victims of the Iraqi suicide bombing on March 25 mourn their lost loved ones. Last week I wrote an editorial praising the triumph in Brussels, Belgium at the capture of ISIS terrorist Salah Abdeslam. The morning that article was published, […]
SUSPECT IN CUSTODY – Salah Abdeslam was named by Belgium authorities as "the most wanted man in Europe." Last Friday marked a day of triumph for the people of France. Salah Abdeslam, a suspected ISIS terrorist involved in the Paris attack of November 2015, was captured after a raid on his hideout in Brussels, […]
