| One Year Later: Blackboard’s Status | By: Jeremy Yoder, Opinion Editor
After providing service to the campus for two semesters, Blackboard, an online framework for out-of-class interaction between professors and students, is receiving mixed reviews. ( Read More...)
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| Bringing Degrees to Completion | By: Michael Ng, Sports Editor
For those who wonder about EMU's role in the surrounding community, one need not look any further than the Adult Degree Completion Program (ADCP). Entering its seventh year this July, the ADCP can claim its success in attracting local men and women of a wide range of ages, professions and denominations.
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| Saturated by Opportunity | By: Kristine Sensenig, Co-editors in Chief
"We just can’t get enough people!" So goes the cry of so many student-run organizations at EMU. Why? There are two possibilities:
1. The student population is simply too small to adequately fill the spaces requesting student involvement.
2. Too few students recognize and take advantage of the opportunities offered by peer-directed organizations.
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| The Absurdity of Intolerance | By: Andrew Jenner, Columnist
Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, and don't criticize what you can't understand. Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command, your old road is rapidly agin'. Please get out of the new one if you can't lend your hand, for the times they are a-changin'. -Bob Dylan
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| Advice to the Prince | By: Chip Coleman, Contributing Writer
Dear EMU,
Over Christmas I received my first postgraduate petition for money from You. I hadn’t heard from You in a while. You didn’t even ask how I was. I found a job but it pays $6.75 an hour and in February I start to pay back my loans so I hesitate to contribute money. ( Read More...)
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| Belief Without Aggression? | By: Deborah Good
Two weeks ago, I sat around a long table in Nazareth, Ethiopia and listened as a local Meserete Kristos leader stood and praised the handsome 83-year old white man seated at the end of the table, calling him the grandfather of their church. This elderly man, who set sail to Ethiopia fifty-three years ago with his wife and three daughters, is also my grandfather.( Read More...)
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| Letter to the Editors: What Did We Miss? | By: Kathleen Temple, Bible and Religion Department
Unfortunately, many of us missed the opening event of Black History Month. The terrific speaker who was in chapel on Friday, Dr. Decker Tapscott, spoke to less than 150 people! ( Read More...)
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| ‘It’s Not Too Dopey’: Valentine’s Day From All Sides | By: Wendy Hess, Staff Writer
Valentine’s Day is getting the thumb this year. In a random survey conducted around town last week that asked people if they gave Valentine’s Day a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down," two thirds of those polled voted in the negative.
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| Bombingham at EMU, The Debunking of Myths | By: Christopher Fretz, Staff Writer
During the Civil Rights movement, Birmingham, Ala., experienced so many bombings and church burnings that the city became known as “Bombingham.” Writer Anthony Grooms used the nickname as the title of his most recent book, Bombingham.
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| Greenway to Follow Blacks Run Through Harrisonburg | By: Jeremy Good, Co-Editor in Chief
The dream of a greenway for recreation and environmental preservation in Harrisonburg will likely see fruition. In the roughly 30 years since the idea first surfaced there have been various false starts and setbacks.( Read More...)
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| Bell and Bowman: Last of Four Years | By: Kai Orenic, Staff Writer
Next Tuesday will be a day of reflection for Ben Bowman and David Bell. It has been a long season for the men’s basketball team’s two seniors, and their final home game against Roanoke will close the chapter on four up and down years at EMU.
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| It’s Crunch Time for Women | By: Michael Ng, Sports Editor
Coach Dunavant’s squad is stuck in a dead heat with Washington & Lee for sixth place with each team having four games left to play. EMU swept the series with the Generals in last night’s solid 66-54 victory. Freshman forward Jenny Cline led the team with 21 points, the highest point total of her career. Emily Misak chipped in with 17 points.
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| Rooting for the Young Folks | By: Michael Ng, Sports Editor
As crowds pour into the University Commons this season by the hundreds, a group of loyal spectators should not be overlooked. They call themselves the Royal Rooters of Virginia Mennonite Retirement Communicy (VMRC) and can almost always be found front and center at men’s and women’s basketball games touting their tee-shirts which declared "We’re Behind EMU."
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| | Hugs & Slugs |  | | A murderous slug to tree choppers, especially those who target Oakwood’s oak trees. Doesn’t the spindly stump make you feel like something died? |  | | | A sympathetic slug to the groundhog who glimpsed his shadow on Saturday. Yes, we’re cold, too and hibernation is getting kind of old. | | | | A well-rounded hug to Doug Graber Neufeld for organizing and executing an exceptional field trip for Environmental Physiology. | |  | | A starving slug to the Oakwood scavengers who desended upon the pizzas in Elmwood and Northlawn on Super Bowl night. You’re not at the top of the food chain, you know. | | | | A squished slug. |
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| On the Sidewalk | “Where did you watch the Super Bowl?”
“In the Woods, then in Hillside.”
~ Justina Bohar, first-year
“At a friend’s house.”
~ Matthew Gingerich, first-year
“I didn’t watch the Super Bowl.”
~ Jason Kauffman, first-year
“I was one of the few people that saw it all the way through in the Elmwood lounge.”
~ Daria Martin, first-year
“I glimpsed it in the Elmwood lounge.”
~ Zach Kurtz, first-year
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| Foot in Mouth |  | | “Jesus doesn’t sing.”
Anne Gross
Intro. to Music Listening |
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