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Jim Amidon — Ashraf Haidari returned home on Tuesday. No, he did not return to Kabul, Afghanistan, where he lived as a child. He returned to Crawfordsville, where his American host family […]

Read More - Haidari Returns to Wabash, Rebuilds Home Country

Jim Amidon — December 15, 2008 ‘Twas the night before Finals, when all through the land, The students were cramming, not playing Rock Band. Their papers and notes all ordered with care, […]

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Howard W. Hewitt – It’s tough keeping pace in the ever-changing world of social networking and internet news sites. The Wabash website has had an “e-mail to a friend” link for years. […]

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Howard W. Hewitt — Those of us in the Public Affairs Office occasionally write about our infrequent visits into Wabash College classrooms. We talk about the interaction of professors and students, and […]

Read More - The Maturation Process of Freshmen

Howard W. Hewitt – Jeremy Bird called his work in the Barack Obama campaign ‘incredibly fulfilling.” Bird, a field organizer and key leader in campaign work, spent Tuesday on campus. His evening speech […]

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Jim Amidon — The sun was piercing through the window blinds in my office late last Friday afternoon as I watched a steady stream of cars taking Wabash College students to their […]

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Jim Amidon — I grew up not so much in a military household, but in a family with a long military history. My grandfather fought in France in World War I. My […]

Read More - A Very Special Veterans Day

Jim Amidon — It’s early on a Tuesday morning and I’m gazing blankly at my daily schedule that lists an endless series of meetings with visits to five classrooms dotted between. The […]

Read More - Photographers Back in Class

Jim Amidon — The Wabash College soccer team had a strange schedule this year. The Little Giants played only eight home games, but they came in bunches — they opened the year […]

Read More - Young Soccer Team Has Bright Future

Kim Johnson – It’s always a great day when my “assignment” is to take pictures. Today was one of those days. I ventured out with a camera in each hand to capture […]

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I spent last Friday with my colleague Brent Harris and a television production crew from the high definition network HDNet. HDNet is owned by Mark Cuban, the Indiana University graduate, who owns […]

Read More - Special Shout Out to HDNet

Steve Charles—On Sunday in Salter Hall, David Porter will play Charles Ives’ Concord Sonata, one of the most difficult pieces in the piano repertoire. He just published a book on Willa Cather. […]

Read More - Liberation Education

Kim Johnson – Since I returned from maternity leave earlier in the week, I have been sorting through mail, responding to e-mail and phone messages, and catching up on the latest news […]

Read More - Wabash Always Gives Back

Steve Charles—Several years ago, my friend and boss Jim Amidon ’87 took a tour through several of Montgomery County’s manufacturing plants. Pace Dairy and Crown Cork and Seal Company were among them, […]

Read More - Think Globally, Write Locally

Jim Amidon — About midway through my career at Wabash College, I was promoted to a leadership position in the public relations office and not long after I had to conduct my […]

Read More - Steve Charles: Editor, Writer, Listener

Jim Amidon — Wabash lost one of its beloved alumnae over the weekend when Virginia “Ginny” Hays passed away in her home. A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on […]

Read More - Wabash Mourns Ginny Hays

Jim Amidon — I’ve often written about how much goes on at Wabash — in a single day or week — and I’ve often written about the unique opportunities our students have […]

Read More - Visiting Lecturer Provides “Wabash Moment”

Jim Amidon — Jim Shella, a political reporter with WISH TV in Indianapolis for the last 25 years, sets out from the Circle City once each week to take the political pulse […]

Read More - Wabash Guys Talk Politics