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Ku Klux War Closed College
The Mars Hill College campus was recently given a memorial featuring a chronology of all of its past presidents. It stands before Blackwell on the Quad, and if you take the time to stop and look, you will notice a mysterious engraving during the 1872-1874 time period. It simply reads, "College dormant, local Ku Klux War."
Story by Nathan Heath - - Click for Reader Comment
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Peggy Harmon at work
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Peggy Harmon Keeps Old Ways Fresh at Mars Hill
The Appalachian room is full of different types of our history. From books to farm equipment, everything in the room has a story. Peggy Harmon is the Special Collections Supervisor in the Appalachian Room. She was born and raised in the Grapevine Community in Madison County. She lived on her Grandpa Davis's farm which has been in their family for 102 years. She always was interested in old things and collecting things from her family.
Story by Doug Green
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Kacie Cardwell (left) with friend and co-worker Jenny Daws
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Service to Homeless Brings Reward
Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, Mars Hill College Sophomore Kacie Cardwell shows up at the A-HOPE Center for the homeless in Asheville to start her volunteer shift. Usually the day's jobs include checking mail for the homeless clients, talking and socializing with them, or handing out toiletries such as soap and shampoo for the showers.
Story by Ashley Poulter - - Click for Reader Comment
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Professor Blair, ready to listen
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Professor Joe Blair Closes Ledger on Long Career
Accounting Professor Joe Blair has been at Mars Hill College since 1979, and this is his last semester as a Lion. After 29 years serving students, Blair has decided to retire.
Professor Blair has not always been an accounting professor, but he believes one thing in particular led him to Mars Hill College - God.
Story by Alexandra Turner - - Click for Reader Comment
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Cuthbertson in the Big Apple
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Business Major Heads for Wall Street
People at Mars Hill College know him as "Smiley." Julian Cuthbertson was definitely all smiles these past two weeks as he was named Senior of the Year by a vote of his senior class; selected as one of three graduation speakers from the senior class, and honored as one of three Student Support Services Academic Award winners for 2007-08.
Story by Alexandra Turner
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Ferguson Science Building Nears Completion
The new Ferguson Math and Science Center at Mars Hill College is nearing completion and will be dedicated on Saturday, June 7, at 11 a.m. Math and science teachers have to move out of Wall and into Ferguson by early June. At that point, work on the renovation of Wall Science Building will begin. Ferguson contains a large lecture room, a greenhouse, and 75 percent more lab space than Wall.
Story and photos by Josh Doby
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The SGA Executive board for 2008-2009
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Student Government Association Installs New Leadership
Four new elected officers will serve on the Student Government Association executive board during the 2008-2009 school year. The president will be Alex Sams. Tabatha Woodson will serve as vice president. Courtney Clark will hold the position of secretary; and Sarah Thomas will serve as treasurer.
Story by Sally Carswell
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If your musical appetite draws you to pickin', strummin' or fiddlin', Gary Spence take you to the next level.
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Gary Spence, Folk Musician for Music Credit
Gary Spence is a member of the music faculty at Mars Hill College. His specialty is folk music, which has interested him since college. He plays guitar, banjo, and fiddle, sings, and is practically a one-man band.
Story by Nathan Heath
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Facing world issues in Belk Auditorium
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High School and College Students Recreate United Nations on Campus
Mars Hill College hosted its first Model United Nations Conference on April 26 in Belk Auditorium.
Students practiced solving a world issue together, following the same procedures, rules, and regulations that are actually being used in the real United Nations. Six high school students from two area high schools and three Mars Hill College students took part.
Story by Yonatan Arnold
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Zeta Chi Theta looking for hungry homeless people at the main downtown Asheville Bus Stop
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Greeks Serve to Make Change
Greek organizations around the country have gotten the reputation of drinking heavily and throwing crazy parties. The eight Greek organizations at Mars Hill College are working to improve their images. Each organization is active in the community and on campus doing community service.
Story by Caitlin Daly
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Tyler Clarke burns the midnight oil
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Exams Bring Out Different Styles of Study
Summer is right around the corner, and college students are thinking about summer jobs and seeing old buddies. Only one thing gets in the way- EXAMS. Here's how five Mars Hill College students prepare for those terrifying tests.
Story by Shawn Esworthy
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Pure Beauty!!!
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Skid Marks - Madison's Macho Medium
For the longest time people have been watching the Dukes of Hazzard on TV trying to figure out how to make their own car burn its tires. They sense that making skid marks is an art form. Getting brave enough to try it and do it is what separates the wannabe stunt driver from the real deal.
Story by Tyler Coates
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A bus pulls up to the Jilin University entrance on a clear day in March
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Major Chinese University Welcomes Mars Hill Exchange
Stan Dotson, dean of LifeWorks and director of service learning, recommends a teaching experience in China to those graduating students who would like a little adventure. Recently Dotson visited Jilin University in Changchun, China, to strengthen an informal partnership Mars Hill has with Jilin that has enabled graduating seniors to go to China and teach English and American Culture.
Story by Jessica Young
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The new University of Valladolid (top) not far from the oldest house of worship in the Western Hemisphere, the Monastery of San Bernadino, completed 1560.
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Mars Hill Initiates Mexican Partnership
Mars Hill College is putting the final touches on a student exchange program with a Mexican university. This spring, three representatives of the college traveled to the small city of Valladolid in the central Yucatan to visit the University of Valladolid and explore a partnership. Education Department leaders Deborah Morris and Tom Destino along with Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs Nina Pollard made the visit.
Story by Joey Wilson
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Chef José Garcia
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Main Street Eatery Looks South of Border
It's a warm spring day, and you're hungry for something new in Mars Hill. You just might find it on Main Street at the new Latin cuisine restaurant, El Dorado. El Dorado is from the minds of chef and owner José Garcia and owner Steve Alley. Garcia is a Columbian native who came to the United States about 24 years ago at the age of 14. He has been a cook or has worked in food services ever since.
Story by Josh Coburn
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Fill up for the next game
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Delta Zeta Questions Campus Alcohol Customs
Parties on college campuses are not uncommon, even at Mars Hill College. Beer pong, a drinking game involving cups and ping pong balls, is found almost always at any college party. Delta Zeta took this common drinking game and put a twist on it. During dinner in Pittman Dining Hall, the sisters set up two tables and filled the cups with root beer. They also projected an educational film on binge drinking.
Story by Caitlin Daly
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Jaclyn and Tanasi
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Senior Lion Mothers Wolves
Senior Jaclyn Bowen got the rare opportunity to work with four wolf puppies over the summer as a volunteer "Wolf Puppy Parent". Jaclyn worked at Bays Mountain Park, a nature center in Tennessee. She got to work with Timber Wolves, also known as Gray Wolves.
Story by Katie Bolton
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Abby Martin on the ball
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Recognition Rains on Freshman Soccer Star
Freshman Abby Martin was homesick, so homesick she planned on transferring from Mars Hill College mid-semester. However, after an incredibly successful fall soccer season, where Martin was named as the South Atlantic Conference Freshman of the Year, as well as All-Conference and All-Region, Martin decided Mars Hill was starting to feel a bit more like home.
Story by Alexandra Turner - - Click for Reader Comment
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Gordon Roberts
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Math Professor Launched Career from Shop Floor
Gordon Roberts, now an associate professor of mathematics at Mars Hill College, never intended to go to college. When he finished high school, he took part in a four-year apprenticeship as a machinist. He worked as a professional in the field for another four years.
Story by Kacie Cardwell
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Swearing in on the Quad
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Lion Soldier Opens Door to Officer Training
Mars Hill College has established a partnership with Eastern Tennessee State University's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). Sophomore Jessi Young led the project, which will allow students to take ROTC classes and count them as electives. Anyone who is interested can take the classes, which teach students how to be soldiers, the history of the ARMY, different ranks, and how to fight and protect your country.
Story by Lesli Frazier
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Senior Prom Queen
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Sorority Stages "Senior" Prom
The Delta Zeta National Sorority hosted a Senior Prom at the Mars Hill Retirement Community on April 19. As the residents arrived for an afternoon of dancing and dining with their friends, they were greeted by several sisters under a doorway balloon arch and were given plastic necklaces and corsages.
Story by Sally Carswell
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Jason Wunsch as Student Government President in 1996
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Student Support Services Inspired by Former Campus Leader
As a very young child, Jason Wunsch loved school, was outgoing, and seemed to be bright. Then at age eight he was classified as having a learning disability because he wasn't good with written work. The experts were wrong. Wunsch, a 1996 graduate of Mars Hill College and of the Student Support Services program, went on to law school and became a lawyer. His parents told his story at the Student Support Services 20th Anniversary Banquet on April 17.
Story by Sable Adams
Banquet Honors Sudent Support Services Successes story by Sable Adams
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You may think the weatherman points to a map, but you don't see one here.
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Real TV Station Drama Plays Off Camera
Viewers of the six o'clock news on WLOS see the meteorologist pointing to a map that shows upcoming weather changes. What the viewers do not know is that Mike Cuevas, chief meteorologist, is actually pointing to a blank green back-drop. There is no map on it. Hundreds of lights flash above him.
Story by Sable Adams - - Click for Reader Comment
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First cousins Tyler Coates and Doug Green
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Relay For Life Tourney Brings Cousins Together
The Relay For Life Basketball Tournament was part of an American Cancer Society fundraising campaign in Madison County. You honor cancer survivors, pay tribute to those who have lost their lives to cancer, raise money to help fight the disease, and also play serious basketball. Mars Hill Sophomore Tyler Coates played for fun, but also because his brother Ryan Coates had cancer, and Tyler understands how difficult that can be.
Story by Doug Green
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Jeff Atkins and his army of cloggers
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Jeff Atkins: The Colonel of Clogging
Jeff Atkins has accomplished much since graduating from Mars Hill College in 1994, but he has a big issue to fight for. "The style and flair of traditional clog dancing is beginning to be watered down these days, " he says. Atkins teaches kids clogging, and teaches them to respect its history and heritage as well.
Story by Joey Wilson - - Click for Reader Comment
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Kat Stadler and Carlee Macon hanging Kat's Parrot
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Student Art on Display
Three Senior art students have spent countless hours over the last two semesters preparing for the Senior Art Exhibit, which opened on Friday, April 11. The exhibit will run through May 10 in the Weizenblatt Gallery of Moore Auditorium.
Story by Kacie Cardwell
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Three bedrooms, living room, and kitchen
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Habitat House Dedicated
On a sunny April 6, Madison County Habitat for Humanity dedicated its nineteenth house since its founding in 1989. The family, a single mother from Madison County and her two young sons, will move in as soon as the final inspection is complete.
Story by Sally Carswell
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It's just a game
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Beech Glen - Where Hoop Dreams Get Laid Up
Just playing a little basketball is about all ex-players -- and even many people who never had the chance to play on a team -- want to do in their spare time. Beech Glen Community Center provides that sweet opportunity. The gym at Beech Glen has brand new extra-soft goals, floors so sticky that you twist your ankle if you stop too quick, and is just big enough to where a lot of pick up games happen.
Story by Tyler Coates
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No more "if's" or "and's" - just butts
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Smoking Ban Initiative Snuffed Out
One vote made the difference as the Student Government Association turned down a proposal to establish a smoke-free campus, 10 to 9. One person abstained. The vote, held during a regular SGA meeting April 10, ends the discussion for this school year, but it can be brought up again next year.
Story by Sable Adams
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Students Rally to Take Back the Night
People gathered on the Mars Hill College campus on April 10 to share stories and to speak out against sexual assault and domestic violence during "Take Back the Night, 2008." The speak-out aimed to end the silence that often surrounds these issues and to raise awareness, hope and courage.
Story by Jessica Young
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Jack Delaney speaks about Bacteriophages
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Poo and You:
Biology Major Seeks Medical Alternatives in Sewage
With slides titled "Bacteriophage -- what the ? ," and "Poo and You," Junior Biology Major Jack Delaney informed the crowd during SLAM about using Fecal Viruses as Medicine. In his April 9 presentation he told about bacteria-eating viruses called "Bacteriophages" as an alternative treatment in bacterial infection.
Story by Lesli Frazier - - Click for Reader Comment
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Michelle Bruner, Wayne Morris, Sarah Brandenberger and John Burk
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Spine Injury Presentation Draws Athletes' Attention
The spine is the central nervous core of the human body. It's the CPU -- the central processing unit of the body. When something bad happens to it, it's not going to be the only thing affected. In a case of a 20-year-old MHC football player, something did happen. Students, athletes, and faculty alike crowded in to the MHC media center on April 9 to hear a SLAM presentation by the student athletic trainers on spinal injury.
Story by Josh Coburn
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The congregation stares at the wall
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SLAM Performance Suggests an Allegory of the Church
Imagine Plato's Cave as your church. That is how Christine Hernandez-Cuenco introduced her one-act play, God on the Wall, at SLAM on April 9th in Broyhill Chapel. The performance consisted of an all-female cast including Hernandez-Cuenco as the main character, as well as Kasey Boston, Maryanne Brown, Reb Knight, and Joan Wilkerson.
Story by Kacie Cardwell - - Click for Reader Comment
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Handmade Bowls for the 2006 Empty Bowls Dinner
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Hunger Week Events Stuff Campus Calendar
Every year Mars Hill College has a Hunger Awareness Week to collect funds and food and raise awareness of the problem of hunger worldwide and in North Carolina. With help from student organizations, Kayla McCurry and Todd Allen have taken on the task of planning a week of events.
Story by Jessica Young
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