News
01 December 2006
Volume 119, Issue 9
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Russia with love:
Professor gives talks on what it means to be American at Russian university
One of Monmouth College’s own English professors has just recently returned from teaching at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) in Moscow. Bruce was selected to teach American Studies as a result of a chance encounter.
“Last April, I went to a conference on Russia and Eastern Europe in Richmond, Va.,” Bruce stated. “That Friday night in the hotel lounge, I struck up a conversation with a man (Irwin Weil, a founder of RSUH’s American Studies Center) who came in late but said he was also attending the conference. He was so interesting that... Read More...
Monmouth receives $1.2 million gift
Monmouth College recently received a $1.2 million unrestricted gift from an alumna who never received a degree from the college.
The gift, which will be added to the college’s current investment portfolio of $60 million, was bequeathed from the estate of Karol Klaus Manley, a native of Peoria, Ill. Manley, a member of the... Read More...
Writing
partners help freshmen adjust
One of many skills educators often attempt to cultivate in their students is the ability to express themselves through the art of writing. While the writing center is always available to help students in developing their essays and papers, a new program on campus, entitled the Writing Partners, is aiming to bring this service closer to students in the Read More...
Students
present science papers at symposium
Earlier this month, on November 3, three Monmouth College students gave presentations at the seventeenth annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics at Argonne National Laboratory.
The event lasted for two days, but the Monmouth College students only attended the first day. Read More...
A note from the editors
Thanksgiving is making a comeback this year, at least in my life.
Last November 24, I woke to look out the window of my Oxford house to see a typical English day dawning. It was grey, rainy and incredibly windy. I layered on nearly every piece of sports clothing I could find in preparation for another rowing practice in which my hands... Read More...
So a beaker is more than just a Muppet Baby?!
A national test shows that urban school districts do worse on science tests than students in rural school districts.
This week, the scores of ten urban area school districts showed that students in public schools do worse in elementary and middle school science in comparison to national averages. Read More...
You can get a degree in entrepreneurship?
A school based out of Phoenix, Ariz., called Grand Canyon University is soon going to be the first accredited school to open a college devoted solely to the study of being an entrepreneur.
There are campuses spread across the nation which offer courses in the subject, and it is one of the fastest-growing fields of study. Read More...
Procrastination nation
The time has come again, folks. It is once again time for us to put our fabulous college student powers of former procrastination and a renewed sense of urgency to complete all our end-of-semester projects and study for finals.
While everyone makes the mistake of putting things off until the very last, or close to the last, minute... Read More...
Letter to the Editor
“A personal experience with politics” is a commentary on the current issue with negative political campaigning. My response to this is that this is a part of politics, and we need to understand that this is the world we live in today. It is nice to see that people still only care about things when it starts to affect them. This is not new in the world of politics, and now there is disgust when one person sees it in their own backyard. Read More...
Turkeys and a Tickle Me Elmo
While we all sat and ate ourselves into a coma over this Thanksgiving break, I was reminded of what this holiday really is about: true American values such as gluttony and 60 percent off at Kohl’s. I saw kids coming back home wearing cheesy paper hats with buckles attached to them (modeling the buckle craze of the early 1600’s) and reading small books cut in social studies classes which... Read More...
Lecture tells of Roman wine culture
The final archaeological lecture of the 2006 fall semester at Monmouth College featured Myles McCallum, director of the Porta Stabia Project, stationed in Pompeii, Italy, which researches, excavates and surveys the legendary village.
His lecture, entitled “Bacchus on the Bay of Naples,” actually had very little to do with the Roman... Read More...
Harrod
presents ‘large’ paper at conference
Monmouth College’s Richard Harrod, a junior classics/history major from Annapolis, Md., read a paper at the biennial meeting of the Southern Section of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) in early November at the University of Memphis. Read More...
New program helping students prepare for life after college
The Wackerle Career and Leadership Center has just debuted WackerleTrack, an online career center which allows users to search for jobs or internships, post resumés and much more. This program provides students with example resumés, cover letters and even provides help for building the credential files which education majors need. Read More...
The
Wackerle Corner:
Holiday Checklist
While we all sat and ate ourselves into a coma over this Thanksgiving break, I was reminded of what this holiday really is about: true American values such as gluttony and 60 percent off at Kohl’s. I saw kids coming back home wearing cheesy paper hats with buckles attached to them (modeling the buckle craze of the early 1600’s) and reading small books cut in social studies classes which... Read More...
Christmas around the world
Today, Christmas seems to be as much a secular holiday as a religious one. Christmas as most know it today is a 19th-century invention. According to the Rochedale State School website, the decorated Christmas tree, common in German countries for centuries, was introduced in Britain by Prince Albert. When most think of the holiday season caroling, gift-giving, decorations, food and being with loved ones come to mind. Read More...
