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Alcohol speaker visits Adrian

April 19, 2010
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Alcohol speaker visits Adrian

Adrian College welcomed guest speaker, Adam Ritz, to campus last Thursday to speak about alcohol awareness. Students involved in Greek Life, athletics and the Resident Assistant program on campus were required to attend the event. Ritz, having dealt with a personal situation involving alcohol which led to legal action being taken against him, chooses to…

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Health Center strives to provide for students

April 19, 2010
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“It’s been a good year,” Dawn Marsh, director of health services, said about the Health Center at Adrian College. The Health Center is located in the basement of Caine Student Center and is open Monday through Friday. From 9 to 11 a.m., their walk-in clinic is available and from 1 to 4:30 p.m., is open…

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Ribbons of Excellence Day recognizes academic strides

April 19, 2010
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Ribbons of Excellence Day recognizes academic strides

Adrian College celebrated the Ribbons of Excellence Tuesday, by hosting various events and ceremonies around campus. Each of these different programs focused on one of the five elements of the ribbons, which are caring for humanity and the world, learning throughout a lifetime, thinking critically, crossing boundaries and disciplines and developing creativity. There were 30…

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Sodexo finishes semester, high hopes for next year

April 11, 2010
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Sodexo finishes semester, high hopes for next year

Throughout the 2009-2010 academic year, Sodexo has put on various events in Ritchie Marketplace. “We try to do something every month,” Tim McLaughlin, the general manager for Sodexo, said. According to McLaughlin, in October there was steak and shrimp night and in November they put on a specialty Thanksgiving dinner. In December, there was a…

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Medieval event held at AC late last month

April 1, 2010
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Saturday, March 27, Adrian College co-hosted the first annual “Medieval and Renaissance Studies Consortium,” in conjunction with Alma College. The event is the result of last fall’s call for student papers on the subject. Students from the region sent two hundred word abstracts and were chosen to present their papers from about sixteen local schools.…

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Docking delivers speech

April 1, 2010
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Docking delivers speech

“Shared Vision, Shared Success,” was the title of Adrian College’s Annual State of the College Address given last Friday at noon in the Adrian Tobias room by AC’s seventeenth President, Jeffrey Docking. “The preponderance of this message… will be devoted to looking ahead, planning, visioning and, most importantly, working together as one community to create…

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Chemistry student heads to California

March 25, 2010
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Chemistry student heads to California

From June 13 to July 24, sophomore Krystin Stiefel is going to San Jose State University in CA for the ACS Nuclear and Radiochemistry undergraduate summer school. Stiefel was one of twelve students picked for this six week program. There are two sites for the Chemistry program, one in San Jose, the other in Brookhaven…

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Circle K attends district convention in Lansing, MI

March 25, 2010
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Circle K attends district convention in Lansing, MI

Over spring break, from March 12 to March 14, Adrian College’s chapter of Circle K went to Lansing for their annual district convention. “We are a service organization affiliated with Kiwanis,” junior Jennifer Dawson said about Circle K. Kiwanis is a group of volunteers that work together for community service activities. Circle K is particularly…

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Japanese students fold cranes in hopes of peace

March 22, 2010
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Japanese students fold cranes in hopes of peace

With a square piece of paper, color side up, make a fold diagonally corner to corner. When I first walked into the advanced Japanese language classroom, I wasn’t sure what to expect.  Yet when the light poured into the movie-darkened room, five determined faces were looking at me with such intensity; I knew the project…

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Professor and wife achieve year long goal

March 19, 2010
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Professor and wife achieve year long goal

One complex man, one simple goal: To build a genuine log cabin entirely from scratch. Assistant professor of sociology, social work, and criminal justice, Derek P. Brereton (known simply and affectionately as “Dr. B” by any student who has ever taken one of his classes) first got the idea to build a cabin of his…

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