Choral Program presents its new face
by Sean Hughes
Bill Culverhouse is at once razor-sharp and disarming, a dual complexion that has served him well during his first semester at Earlham.
As the newest member of Earlham’s colorful and venerated cast of music faculty, and as the only major appointee to the high post of choral conductor in decades, Culverhouse might have had his work cut out for him, with all of the undergraduate sizing up and foot-dragging that accompanies a pedagogical regime-change.
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Dance Alloy presents works in progress
Sophomore Kirsten Bunner (front) and Junior Zeina Amro (back) perform during the Dance Alloy works in progress presentation in the Wellness Center last Sunday, Nov. 16.
Italian market is a pearl of Old Richmond District
by Ed Joice
On the corner of North 10th Street and North E Street you’ll notice a surprising little shop next to Richmond Hardware, not typical of Richmond commerce. It is called Maria Mitrione’s Italian Market. On Saturday, Nov. 15 the Italian Market celebrated its one-year anniversary with a party in the 4th Floor Blues Club, which is in the same building as both the Italian Market and Richmond Hardware.
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Voices on the Heart
by Chrissy Sollenberger
Based on the number of computer chairs that are filled and the population of the 24-hour lab late into the night, the week before fall break seems to have just about as stressful of a workload as the week before winter break. However, the procrastination levels are at a constant high. The Word asked six students to share their favorite method of procrastination. Here’s their responses.
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Molly’s Mailbox
by Molly Owen
What do you do when one of your housemates wants to throw a party, but wants to impose on everyone else to have it and won’t take no for an answer?
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Fumbled connections
Similar to the popular Missed Connections on Craigslist.com, Fumbled Connections provides an anonymous place to express the interactions you have with others that catch your attention. Email yours to ECmissedconnections@gmail.com.
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Choose your Student Government
An expedition to the coffee shop
by Katie Thorp
Our footsteps echo as our feet hit the pavement of the sidewalk, the light of the streetlamps guiding us as the evening darkens. I walk faster as I shiver in the cold fall air. Our destination: Saga. My stomach growls and my head aches, common symptoms of the self-neglect to which students are so prone. I glance at my companion, Elizabeth. She, too, shivers and looks pale. “I don’t know if I can make it,” I mutter.
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Facebook occupies big part of students’ lives
by Ed Joice
Did you check out the new photo album on Landrum’s Facebook profile called “Fun with Philanthropy”? It was so cool! That one picture where Jimmy Carter was floating in the air was absolutely shocking!
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Professors get excited about new classes in the spring
by Katie Thorp
Is it possible for Bob Marley to be the primary focus of a class? Can a course about animals be taught in the English department or a politics class be presented through film? There are three professors who will be attempting such feats as they introduce new courses next semester.
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