Tim Swartzendruber 鈥�95, one of Pat鈥檚 and my four children, recently recalled his cross-cultural with these words: When I compare my seven semesters on 黑料正能量鈥檚 campus to my cross-cultural semester in France and Ivory Coast, it鈥檚 like comparing coffee to espresso 鈥� both are fantastic, but the latter is doubly intense and stimulating. The intellectual,
Uncle William did not look like a hero to me when I was a child. As I got older, I came to realize that this Iowa farmer had been one of hundreds of young men who served the nation during World War II by tending to people who previously had been treated as beneath 鈥渢he
This issue of Crossroads comes to you soon after a historic action of the Harrisonburg City Council to grant a 20-year 100 percent tax exemption for commercial solar projects. Our first solar array, on the roof of Sadie Hartzler Library, online since November, is producing 2 percent of our campus electric consumption. The action of
AN ESSAY HEADLINED 鈥淎 Climate-Change Activist Prepares for the Worst,鈥� published in the Outlook section of the Washington Post one recent Sunday (Feb. 27, 2011), sparked 444 online comments before the Post closed the discussion. The essay also prompted more than 1,800 people to recommend it via Facebook. The writers of the 444 postings were
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Aaron Copland, 20th century American composer, shared this perspective regarding music: 鈥淭he whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 鈥業s there a meaning to music?鈥� My answer would be, 鈥榊es.鈥� And 鈥楥an you state in so many words what the meaning is?鈥� My answer to that would be, 鈥楴o.鈥欌�� Many of my earliest
