September 17, 2010
Megan Robinson News and Web Editor At the beginning of this year, an announcement was sent out to students about the reorganization of the College Activities Office, newly renamed the Student Engagement Office. The responsibilities and activities of the former College Activities were divided up among different offices. The set-up process and planning when students ...
Tags: Christine Workman, College Activities Office, student engagement officeNews
September 17, 2010
Ben Grant Staff Reporter Last year senior Amy Kachel read a campus announcement email about an opportunity to travel to Ghana. Katchel responded, and was selected to travel to a Essiam, small village in Ghana, to teach English to seventh, eighth, and ninth graders for a month during the summer. The students Katchel would teach ...
Tags: Amy Katchel, Ghana, study abroadNews
September 17, 2010
Amber Slater Staff Reporter Amid the chaos of saying goodbye to family, trying to fit all their belongings into a cramped space, and meeting the stranger they were to live with for the next year, two in every five freshmen faced an additional challenge on move-in day. They were about to embark on a four ...
Tags: first generation students, First Year Students, freshmenNews
September 17, 2010
Simone Davis Staff Reporter McDaniel has stopped providing campus phones from all dorm rooms. The phones, removed every year in late spring before campus opens up to summer programs, simply weren’t returned to their respective rooms for the 2010-2011 school year. This change has been occurring at other universities across the country as well, including ...
Tags: communication, phone linesNews
September 17, 2010
Megan Robinson News and Web Editor Hoover Library has made many changes this past year, the new study spaces, the website redesign, and the latest addition, the silent floor. The newly designated silent floor began this semester for the first time. Jessame Ferguson, Hoover library director, said she received several request for a designated area ...
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September 17, 2010
Megan Robinson News and Web Editor On August 22nd Hoover Library launched its newly redesigned website. This redesign added several new features and improved others to make it more user friendly and to better assist students in their research. The new website has new features as well as moved some previous features in easier to ...
Tags: hoover library, information technologyNews