Jim Amidon — Students at Wabash College awake this this week with the daunting prospect of a week’s worth of late nights and early mornings ahead of them. The fall semester classes […]
The best thing about photographing yesterday’s violin master class was watching the sparks fly. That’s how Wabash Dean Gary Phillips describes teaching at its best: “When a faculty person who is an […]
Jim Amidon — The HDNet television production truck rolled out of Crawfordsville late Saturday evening, effectively ending this year’s edition of the 113-year annual tradition known as the Monon Bell Classic. Wabash […]
The Wabash Community rallied for Saturday’s Monon Bell game and gathered for the first ‘community picture’ in 21 years Thursday. The annual Monon Bell Chapel talk featured rousing comments and thoughts of […]
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Jim Amidon — It began about 4:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon, seconds after the final horn sounded in Wabash’s football victory at Denison University. Officially — at that moment — it became “Bell […]
My youngest son was a pole vaulter, and there was a point in his trajectory at which he seemed to defy gravity. “You should see yourself,” I would say. “You were flying!” […]
Howard W. Hewitt – This is an update on our three-day photo shoot. Today, Wednesday, we’re back in classrooms again shooting professors and students. In just a day and a half we’ve […]
Jim Amidon — My friend and colleague, Joy Castro, a professor in the English Department at Wabash, gave the 27th Annual LaFollette Lecture in the humanities Friday afternoon. Being selected to give […]
Howard W. Hewitt – When one of our own takes the stage for a Thursday Chapel Talk we’re all there for support. Brent Harris made the Public Affairs staff proud Thursday when the […]
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Steve Charles—On a cold, windy spring day in 2003 I was visiting Professor Scott Feller’s farm when I noticed an odd-looking contraption with cranks and buckets in the laboratory-clean ‘tack room’ of […]
Wabash College is fond of its traditions — really fond of its traditions Homecoming is nearly a century-old Wabash tradition. It was the idea of the late Jasper Cragwall, a professor who […]
Change the eggs and cooking utensils to acid solutions and beakers, and this photo from the Delt house kitchen could be a chemistry lab. But that’s history professor (and former professional chef) […]
Steve Charles—So this pug wearing a dress walks onto campus with a Scotty wearing a rented tux. "What’s the news hook?" my colleague Howard Hewitt asks, uncharacteristically skeptical. "Howard, the dog is […]
Steve Charles—The Purdue Boilermakers got their name from Wabash. The Glee Club used to have its own Queen Contest. The annual Class Fight (thankfully, a lost tradition) was covered by The New […]
Howard W. Hewitt – One of the national’s top political cartoonists is on campus meeting with students, classes, and will give a public lecture tonight. Daryl Cagle, political cartoonist for MSNBC, will […]
Steve Charles—Since his arrival on campus, President Pat White has been encouraging members of the Wabash community to get to know one another better and to join in the "grand conversation" of […]
Howard W. Hewitt – Chapel Talk is one of those wonderful Wabash traditions perhaps a bit difficult to explain to the outside world. Some Chapel talks are quite serious, academic, and even […]
Audiences watching percussionist Syud Momtaz Ahmed ’07 perform at Wabash know the incredible focus, experimentation, and joy he brings to his music. Now the rest of the world is going to hear […]
