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The Tinkels
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Brian Tinkel: A Different Drummer
People may say, "Well, he's a drummer!" but Mars Hill's Director of Percussion Studies Brian Tinkel has mastered marimba, too, plus xylopohone, vibraphone, timpani, cymbals, triangle, tambourine, several kinds of drums and more. "Playing percussion means acquiring skills for a diverse group of instruments," he says.
Story by Rachel Dudley
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LOD leader Jasmine Young
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Ladies of Distinction Honor Women's History
In honor of Women's History Month, the Ladies of Distinction group at Mars Hill College organized a Semi-Formal Ball in Redway Dining Hall March 29, drawing more than 40 guests. The Legends Ball was an effort to show appreciation for women of all nationalities who have paved the way for women today, as well women who are currently creating legendary things.
Story by Rebecca Roa
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Kenyari Addison - Graphic Designer
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Free Safety Addison Tackles Team's Academic Challenges
Kenyari Addison, a football player from Jonesboro, Georgia, has more than just game smarts. He also tutors for the athletic department and the math department. He mostly helps his own teammates, but last fall he also tutored baseball, basketball, soccer and lacrosse players.
Story by Xavier Jordan
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On stage in Moore Auditorium
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Kyle Matthews Gives a Sermon in Song
He was told from day one that less is more in the music business. If he wanted to sell chart-topping songs, he would have to condense his ideas into short, snappy lyrics that would stick. In his concert at Mars Hill College on March 21, song writer and performer Kyle Matthews boldly shared with the crowd of around 150 people exactly what was on his heart: "You can get far in life by making things sound happy and good, but that doesn't help me. Our faith, Christianity, must be transformational."
Story by Matt Welch
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Ophelia "Fifi" DeGroot
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President's Assistant Recalls Mars Hill's Age of Innocence
No TV. No cell phones. No computers. "Housemothers" and "housefathers" in the dorms. Those are just a few of the things that made Mars Hill College in the 1950s different. Ophelia "Fifi" DeGroot knows exactly how life on the Mars Hill campus was during the 1950s. DeGroot graduated from Mars Hill College, which was a junior college at the time, in 1958.
Story by Nicole Robinson - - Click for Reader Comment
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"If a cluttered desk means a cluttered mind, what does an empty desk mean?"
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Science Prof Frank Quick to Retire
Frank Quick is a professor of biology and the department chair for the Natural Sciences Department at Mars Hill College. In May, he will retire after 35 years of service to the Mars Hill College community. Quick says that his biggest achievement at Mars Hill was helping young people reach their goals. A 1974 Mars Hill graduate wrote recently, "You have been my hero for 24 years. You were the only teacher I looked forward to teaching class."
Story by Nicole Robinson & Mee Vang
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World Class Education in West Asheville
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Ed School Responds to Immigration
Nearly one third of the children who attend Asheville's Emma Elementary School come from families that speak little to no English. To help prepare future North Carolina teachers for schools like Emma, Mars Hill College now offers an ESL major as well as an "add-on license" in ESL for teachers already certified in another subject. It is one of only three colleges in the state to offer both options.
Story by Loretta Akins
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David Oesch and C.S. Lewis
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Student Leaders Make Broyhill Chapel a "Refuge"
Amid hard study sessions, long classes and homesickness, many students look for an outlet after classes. Many just want a place to relax and not think about the day or week, while others are looking to find their place on campus to "plug-in," or some just want to feel like they belong. The Refuge, an on-campus ministry/discipleship program, is one of those places.
Story by Mike Costello
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Some were horror-stricken
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A Mysterious Conflagration
Near midnight, a light streaming in through the windows awoke numbers of the sleepers. Joe Bray and several of his type merely grunted discontentedly, turned over, and were asleep again immediately. Others, more astronomically inclined, investigated and saw the comet, or whatever heavenly body was causing the light, resting on the top of the library building.
Story by Brandon Jamerson
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Music Majors cram for a Music History test in the basement of Nash Hall
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Music Majors Make Major Commitment
Music majors are forced to manufacture time. Very few people get done in four years without taking at least 18 class hours every semester. The typical amount is 19 or 20. The required amount varies according to the type of degree. Music Education requires 154, minimum. Music Performance requires 142, whereas most degrees, including a regular BA in music require 128.
Story by Rachel Dudley - - Click for Reader Comment
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Brandon Freeman (left) in London
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Mars Hill Junior Meets Mother Country in Semester Abroad
Brandon Freeman, a Mars Hill College junior and Asheville native, spent last semester studying abroad in London. He had always been interested in a study abroad program, and after transferring to Mars Hill from Western Carolina after his freshman year, he was given the opportunity to do so.
Story by Elizabeth Head
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Anyone can google.
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Government Monitors Student Blog Posts
The Secret Service searched and confiscated Freshman Timothy Willis's computer on Tuesday, March 7. "The Secret Service is investigating me and some of my friends for supposedly threatening the President," Willis wrote in a letter to The Hilltop. A week earlier, on Feb. 28, Willis had posted some adapted song lyrics on a blog post on MySpace. The original lyrics were from Bullet, a song recorded in the late 1970s by The Misfits.
Story investigated and developed by Kristalyn Bunyan - - Click for Reader Comment
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Wide receiver with wide interests
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Tyrea Allen: Man Of Many Talents
As a cool breeze blows around the smell of hamburgers and hotdogs, the scene is set. The field is cut, painted, and a little cheer goes up as sophomore wide receiver Tyrea Allen takes the field. Last fall, Allen played 9 games and caught 17 passes for 355 yards, including a 66-yard touchdown snag in the season final at Tusculum. But the road to glory has many forks, and not all of his lead across the gridiron.
Story by Brandon Jamerson
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Miss Virginia as Student ('43), Coach ('57), and Omelet Maker
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Miss Virginia Remembers
It was a world of extreme rules and control, where people were not allowed physical contact in public, where even adults were forced to abide by a bedtime, and there was segregation based on gender. No, it wasn't an episode of the Twilight Zone about some tyrannical future Earth. Thanks to Virginia Hart, who has been a student, teacher, coach, cook, and influential figure at Mars Hill for more than 60 years, we know that this was the college.
Story by Ryan Wright - - Click for Reader Comment
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Trophy shelf on Men's Hill
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How Dry is the Campus?
Mars Hill College is supposed to be a "dry" campus, yet beer bottles scattered around Myers dorm are not a rare sight. Women from Edna Moore say that people drinking in their building keep them up at night. Students occasionally stumble red-eyed into classes or don't show up at all after a night of partying.
Story by Christopher Hewitt - - Click for Reader Comment
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Joseph Agot Maker Deng
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Joseph Deng Walks a Long Road From Home
Joseph Deng can remember going for a month without eating food. Eating was not something he did on a daily basis. But an even bigger issue was being unable to find clean water. To survive, he would search desperately for wild plants and fruits for the juice. Sometimes he would trade his belongings to get food. "If you could just get some fruit, it would keep you for a while." He was about nine years old. His nightmare began in 1987 when enemies from the north attacked his village in southeastern Sudan.
Story by Danielle Francis
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A ministry in clay
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Potter Finds Life in His Hands
Senior Dwayne Parton has spent his four years at Mars Hill College studying and majoring in art. He came to the Hill freshman year to play soccer, but, "I wasn't that good," he says, "So I just stuck around because I felt like this is where God put me." He began not really knowing what to expect or what he wanted to do with his studies - until sophomore year, when he discovered a very unique skill, pottery. "I like to make things," he says.
Story by Michael Costello - - Click for Reader Comment
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Working for the half ton T-shirt
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Lions Hone Body and Mind for Better Season
While everyone may be in class or just lounging around, take a trip down to Chambers Gym and just poke your head inside the weight room, and you'll see the football team working their asses off. At six o'clock in the morning every Friday, while you're turning over in your bed, down in the gym it's tennis shoes squeaking and sweat hitting the floor, and the sound of guys moaning from body parts hurting.
Story by Xavier Jordan
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