Jim Amidon — I have a confession to make and it’s one I make with a little trepidation. I am a life-long Chicago Cubs baseball fan. I’m one of those fans […]
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Our students are always involved in study abroad, immersion learning, and other smaller and individual experiences which help them uniquely shape their Wabash education. We’ve recently had small groups of students in […]
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Steve Charles—My grandson Myca is the first boy I’ve helped to raise from infancy. I have four sons, but the first died before he was born, and I came to know the […]
Steve Charles—Last week I celebrated Frederic Chopin’s birthday, a first for me. Didn’t really celebrate, I guess. Just yelled out “Happy Chopin’s Birthday” to Tian Tian ’11, who is the only reason […]
Jim Amidon — I read closely the article Journal Review editor Jay Heater wrote about Wabash President Pat White’s lunch with the League of Women Voters last week. In his story, Jay did […]
Steve Charles—“In his ability to create complex characters and pair them with suspenseful situations, Simmons stands almost unmatched among his contemporaries.” That’s the last sentence from Publisher’s Weekly’s starred review of Black […]
Steve Charles—Even if Dr. Fahmeed Hyder’s accomplishments hadn’t grabbed my attention, the classes he chose to visit during his return to Wabash would have. Since when does a former chemistry major spend […]
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Jim Amidon — Just the other day I was working on a project for a local volunteer organization with a friend of mine. We were writing up a document and I emailed it […]
Steve Charles—I was editing the upcoming issue of Wabash Magazine with its focus on men’s health and all I could think about was Garrison Keillor. The author, humorist, and host of A […]
Jim Amidon — What’s the hottest job for graduates of some of the nation’s best private colleges and universities these days? Computer programmer? Nope. Business analyst? Natta. Graphic designer or […]
Howard Hewitt – We’ve written and said a lot this school year about social networking and social media. We’ve added Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and other steps to jump into the communications revolution. […]
Steve Charles—In the Allen Center locker room today I heard Steve Hoffman ’85 and professors David Polley and Tobey Herzog talking about oral comps [the oral comprehensive exams required of all Wabash […]
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Jim Amidon — I sat down last Friday to write this blog and got a serious case of “blank screen blues.” What I mean is that when I sat down, I didn’t […]
Jim Amidon — There have been years in my career at Wabash when the fall semesters dragged on as if they might never end; when the mood of the students was down and […]
The end of the semester at Wabash brings many certainties… final examinations, lots of time in front of the computer, plenty of research time in the library, and a midnight snack on […]
Jim Amidon — I took a phone call from a Wabash College alumnus on Friday. He asked me how the “gentlemen of Wabash” were doing. I was a little confused at first […]
Steve Charles—Just got back from a talk about last year’s summer study in Ecuador program—12 students and four faculty members who spent two weeks teaching English as a second language to high […]
Jim Amidon — Professor Ethan Hollander’s political science students will return from Thanksgiving break and dive into the complicated subject of nation building. The Wabash professor will guide his students to an understanding […]
