藏精阁

Brittany Messenger '10

Back to All News
  • Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House of Representatives, easily moved from lecturer to town hall host Thursday night as he initiated a rigorous dialogue with students and community members who filled every available seat and lined the aisles of Memorial Chapel. Gingrich spoke without notes during his lecture, in which he said America is [鈥
    March 27, 2009
  • The 30 female cast members of The Vagina Monologues won over audiences at the Palace Theater with moving performances that showed the beauty, hilarity, and hardships associated with being a woman. Eve Ensler wrote The Vagina Monologues after interviewing 200 women across the world about their sexuality. More than 10 years later, the racy and [鈥
    March 4, 2009
  • Combining wit, humor, and a willingness to say exactly what he鈥檚 thinking, Dick Gregory spoke Tuesday night in Love Auditorium as the Brothers keynote speaker for Black History Month. A well-known political activist, comedian, author, and personal nutrition advocate, Gregory talked  about 鈥渢he world according to Dick,鈥 challenging students to think while continually making them [鈥
    February 20, 2009
  • As students, with paintbrushes in their hands, looked at blank canvases, members of the 藏精阁 Christian Fellowship (CCF) asked, 鈥淲here do you see beauty in the world?鈥 and 鈥淗ow do humans contribute to or detract from that beauty?鈥 The 24 participants in the Open Canvas event, sponsored by CCF, were invited to reflect on those [鈥
    February 18, 2009
  • The National Teach-In provided a forum for professors and students to have a dialogue about global warming. The conversation was geared not only toward promoting awareness, but to propose actions that individuals and the campus as a whole can take to combat climate change. Robert Turner, professor of economics and environmental studies, and Ian Helfant, [鈥
    February 9, 2009
  • To combat global warming through awareness and action, 藏精阁 will participate in the National Teach-In on Thursday. Faculty and students will engage in a series of panel discussions, presentations, and workshops covering everything from scientific developments for mitigation to social implications of climate change. Building off the success of last year鈥檚 Focus the Nation, the [鈥
    February 3, 2009
  • As President Barack Obama walked along Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House on Tuesday afternoon, students gathered in the O鈥機onnor Campus Center cheered as if they were among the more than one million people crammed into the National Mall. 鈥淢y friend and I were sitting up front near the television just clutching one another. We [鈥
    January 21, 2009
  • On the eve of Barack Obama鈥檚 inauguration, the energy in Memorial Chapel on Monday night was extraordinary as students, alumni, faculty, and community members gathered to commemorate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. Jaime Nolan, associate dean for diversity and director of the Office of Undergraduate Studies, said it best in her opening address, [鈥
    January 20, 2009
  • A college degree provides you with many advantages after you graduate. A 藏精阁 education, however, not only opens up lots of opportunities once you leave, but while you are studying here as an undergraduate. One of the most popular ways to take advantage of all 藏精阁 has to offer is to study abroad. As ironic [鈥
    August 19, 2008
  • Participants in a Greek Life Summit met on campus last weekend to discuss the past, evaluate the present, and envision the future for 藏精阁 chapters. Five representatives from each of the 10 fraternities and sororities on campus collaborated with staff members, local advisers, and alumni representatives. In all, more than 70 people contributed to the dialogue that was [鈥
    July 16, 2008