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President Dan Lunsford speaks about tuition increase.
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Tuition, Programs, and Buildings All Going Up
Tuition will go up again next fall at Mars Hill College. Students in 2008-2009 will pay 5.75 percent more in tuition and fees for a yearly total of $19,894. That is $1,082 more than this year. The cost of meal plans will increase about 6 percent and the cost of living on campus will increase an average of 8 percent, with variances depending on particular dorms.
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Masters Degree Program on Drawing Board
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View across Main Street. Future Day Hall replaces parking lot and former campus police station.
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New Building Will Answer Multiple Needs
Plans are currently underway for a new building on the Mars Hill College campus. It will be named Day Hall after Troy and Pauline Day. Originally planned for business classrooms and facilities, Day Hall now promises to be a diverse, multi-purpose building that will alleviate many campus needs.
Stories by Kacie Cardwell
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Kathryn Eason
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For Fashion Prof Style is Skin Deep, and More
It's not often you come across a professor with a masters degree and a Ph.D. who has three tattoos and five piercings, including a tongue ring. You might assume that someone with such body modifications would not be found teaching at a school like Mars Hill College, but you would be wrong.
Story by Author Caitlin Daly
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Jessica Fish and Travis Hayes lighting up outside the Soda Shop
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Student Government Launches Smoking Survey
Are you interested in smoking anywhere on campus without being persecuted for it? Or ---are you sick of walking through a cloud of smoke on the way into your classroom building? The Student Government Association has distributed a survey asking students if they want a smoke-free campus. A survey has been placed in each student's mailbox.
Story by Sable Adams
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The Ladies of Distinction at the Legends Ball
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LOD Legends Ball Honors Selfless Service
In their way of recognizing Women's History Month, the Ladies of Distinction held their third annual Legends Ball on Thursday March 6. The Ladies of Distinction, a community service organization, sponsors the "Legends Ball" as a way "to give back to the community at school and give credit to where it is due."
Story by Lesli Frazier
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Kinnamon and a few of the 5 million volumes in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (collage courtesy of PhotoShop)
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Gladly Would He Learn, and Gladly Teach
English Professor Noel Kinnamon comes from a Carolina farm family with little conventional education, but he spends his vacations in England among books in the libraries of Oxford University. He has won numerous awards and fellowships, and has taught at Mars Hill for 42 years.
Story by Alexandra Turner
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The Coffee Station at Paw Prints on Mainstreet
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Need a Hit to Make Your 8 O'Clock?
Ask Someone Who Works Here
The people who work at Mars Hill College are very picky about their morning beverages. You think you know all of your professors or coworkers until you find out that they drink something outrageous in the morning. But then you ask, what does it do for them?
Story by Joey Wilson
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Robert Musil - A dry eye on Global Warming
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Climate Change Activist Will Speak in Broyhill
Robert Musil, a long time leader of the peace, nuclear disarmament, and environmental movements, will speak at Broyhill Chapel on Monday, March 10 at 7 p.m. on "Climate Change: How Americans Can Have Hope on a Heated Planet." He will also speak the following morning at Tuesday's Crossroads: "Why Scientists and People of Faith Both Want to Save the World."
Story by Paul Annas
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Walking to the Execution (from the film)
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Sister Helen to Speak on Death Penalty
Sister Helen Prejean, author and advocate for the abolition of capital punishment, will speak at Mars Hill College on Thursday, April 3. The college will show Dead Man Walking, a film based upon Sister Helen's best-selling book of the same name, on Tuesday, March 4. A panel of defense lawyers and prosecutors will speak about the issue of capital punishment on Tuesday, March 25.
Story by Caitlin Daly
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Fahim Ali
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Pakistani Businessman Builds Life in Mars Hill
As you approach the counter, you hear this voice saying to you, "What's up my man, my lady, my bro? What can I get you, and is that going to be it for you, man?" Every one calls him Ali, but few people know that's just his last name. His full name is Fahim Ali. He is the owner of The Country Hub and Chevron gas station in Mars Hill. Ali is 34 years old. He hails from Karachi, the biggest city in the South Asian country of Pakistan.
Story by Josh Coburn
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Rhonda Vincent
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Rhonda Vincent Coming to Mars Hill College for Benefit Show
Rhonda Vincent, award-winning bluegrass performer, will appear at Mars Hill College with her band "The Rage" for a concert benefiting Madison County Habitat for Humanity. The event will be held in Moore Auditorium on April 20 at 3 p.m. All proceeds will go towards building a home for a local family.
Story by Ashley Poulter
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Todd Oldenburg
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Roommate Matchmaker Pairs the Musically Harmonious
Todd Oldenburg, director of residence life at Mars Hill College, is the roommate matchmaker. He's the one who reads the surveys and matches roommates. He's the one who gets the complaints when it does not work out. Oldenburg has been involved with residence life at various colleges for fifteen years. He uses a roommate matching questionnaire to try to successfully match roommates. The most important thing he considers is music.
Story by Shawn Esworthy
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Hal McDonald and The Anatomists cover
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Mars Hill College Professor is "America's Next Great Crime Writer"
Mars Hill College English Professor Hal McDonald doesn't watch a lot of television, so he never saw the advertisement on Court T.V. for "America's Next Great Crime Writer." He stumbled across a flyer promoting the contest one day when he was cleaning out his mailbox. The contest deadline was less than a week away, and McDonald was about to go on Thanksgiving break.
Story by Alexandra Turner
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Dustin Presley
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Giving Blood: A Costless Boost to Karma
Everyone expects blood to be at the hospital in their dire time of need. But what if it isn't? In fact, blood is continually in short supply. To try to meet the need, the Delta Kappa Theta fraternity at Mars Hill College held a blood drive on Wednesday February 27 in Wren Student Union. About 70 people showed up; of those, 58 were eligible to give blood.
Story by Sable Adams
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Sign of the times at Student Support Services office
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Flu Season: The Worst May Be Over
This is the season of flu and colds, but the worst may be over, according to Leslie Anderson, RN - director of medical services at the Mars Hill College Wellness Center. The Center received 320 visits during February from students who were feeling sick, but the numbers peaked during the second week of the month and have been declining since then.
Story by Yonatan Arnold
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