Many students and faculty at Adrian College are concerned with recent textbook prices. Assistant professor of philosophy and religion, Scott Elliot, began teaching at AC last fall. He said that even though last semester students didn’t have to purchase a proper textbook for his course, he has noticed the increasing price of textbooks for...
There are currently 36 colleges and universities across the nation who have the Bulldog as their mascot 16 of which have live mascots. Recently, Adrian College joined the latter group with the arrival of Bruiser the Bulldog, AC’s new live mascot. Bruiser is an English Bulldog. He was born with the name “Eddie” on...
On the first day of 2010, Agnes Caldwell accepted her invitation to serve as the vice president of academic affairs at Adrian College. Previous to Caldwell starting her position on Jan. 1, she was assistant dean for academic affairs. Before that she was a member of the AC faculty for 11 years. Caldwell may...
Adrian College is expected to double the available bandwidth for the campus by February. “Bandwidth is how much our Internet connection can handle at maximum,” Steve Stempien, the director for information services, said. When the available bandwidth reaches maximum capacity, Internet speed slows down. Right now AC has one T3 line installed that provides...
On Sunday, Nov. 22, the Opera Workshop class put on its first and only performance of the semester, Opera Workshop Goes Baroque, under the direction of Elizabeth Major, assistant professor of music. The performance was made up of many different scenes, or segments, from popular Baroque operas. Despite the fact that almost none of...
John Dodson, professor of music and music director of the Adrian Symphony Orchestra, has been recognized with the Ross Newsom Award for Outstanding Teaching. “ given out at the beginning of each school year to acknowledge the hard work, dedication and teaching excellence of our professors,” said Agnes Caldwell, interim vice president...
After the Adrian College football team finished its season Saturday with a 6-4 record, 4-2 in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association, the administration decided to dismiss veteran head coach Jim Lyall. “I can’t go into a specific reason because that’s a personnel issue, and we’re not allowed to discuss those issues,” athletic director Mike...
When Kelli Pelham, manager of 110 Madison salon, got the news her cousin, Cindy Beaubien, had been diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer, she knew immediately she wanted to help her in any way she could. And so the idea of “Clipping for a Cure” was born. Pelham said she came up with the...