Six English majors from Alma College had the honor of presenting at the 2013 International Sigma Tau Delta Convention held in Portland, Ore., last week. Erika Schnepp (‘13), Christina Rann (‘14), Emily Hollenberg (‘14), Maggie Heeschen (‘13), Alice Richard (‘13), and Kelsey Blades (’14) all attended through their involvement in Alma’s chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, which is the English
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The Alma Cheer team hosted its first STUNT tournament against Bowling Green University and Michigan State University. There were two back-to-back games against the two squads. The first year varsity program performed well in both bouts.The first game saw Alma versus Michigan State. The Scots lost the first two rounds of the first quarter, making the score 4-2 in favor
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If you know about President Jeff Abernathy’s master design for the college, then you probably know about the plan to construct several small student houses in the future—many of them along Superior Street—giving bigger and better residential spaces to some academic and themed housing. The plans for the first of these are already underway with the building of the new
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In conjunction with Women’s History Month, the Women’s Advisory Board and the MacCurdy House hosted a panel discussion crossing more than just gender boundaries. The discussion held last Thursday in Dow L2 covered the role of women in Judaism, the Roman Catholic Church and Islam. Three guests led the discussion: Cantor Pamela Schiffer, Whitney Belprez, and Fairouz Kamal. Each of
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Having a parent work at a blood bank, I have become familiar with having a needle in my arm drain blood into a pint-sized plastic pouch. Having an O- blood type, I am classified as a universal donor whose blood can go to anyone, often to infants. Having the short end of the stick if I am ever in need
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