Front Page
23 March 2007
Volume 119, Issue 15
Students
learn how to create a ‘Safe Space’ for others at training session
On Thursday, March 8, the Western Illinois University chapter of Unity presented a training program called Safe Space on the Monmouth College campus to all interested. Unity is an organization designed to unite the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community and their allies.
Following an introduction by Ruby Pentsil-Bukari, director of intercultural life at Monmouth College, the three-hour training session began. The Safe Space training program was presented at Monmouth College to help the community become more educated and supportive of all students. Safe Space is a step in creating social justice within the campus community. Read More...
Local hospital sold to OSF
The City of Monmouth’s own Community Medical Center (CMC), located at 1000 W. Harlem Ave., was recently sold to the Order of Saint Francis (OSF), which owns several small hospitals in the area.
This sale is just part of CMC’s evolution in the last several years. CMC began as a city-owned hospital which began to falter. The city attempted to sell the hospital, but instead let it become a not-for-profit hospital. With this change came a new administrator and some risk-taking which improved the hospital and its stance in the community. Read More...
Marxman
chosen as 2007 Commencement speaker
“It’s not rocket science!” If you have ever been on the receiving end of these words then you know how satisfying it would be to respond, “actually…” However, not surprisingly, very few people can claim that right. That makes Monmouth College alumnus, Gerald Marxman, class of 1956, one of the lucky few. It is because of his achievement in such areas as rocket propulsion that Marxman has been chosen to address the class of 2007 at this year’s Commencement ceremony on May 20. Read More...