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North Carolina could make the difference in who wins or loses the Democratic presidential nomination. Voters go to the polls Tuesday, May 6, to choose between candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Barack Obama's wife Michelle addressed a rally on the Quad at University of North Carolina - Asheville, Friday, May 2. A Hilltop camera caught some familiar Mars Hill College faces, Michelle Obama signing autographs, and Grammy-winning singer Gladys Knight warming up the crowd, among other scenes of the event.
Photo Gallery by Yonatan Arnold
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The line was as long as the eye could see. It wrapped around the building, and when they let people in at around 6 p.m., there were still many people outside. Hillary Clinton came to the Asheville Civic Center on Thursday, April 24 to campaign for the White House. She came to tell her voters and the people of Western North Carolina to come and vote in the state primary May 6. She came to tell them her ideas and what she would do when she becomes president. She appeared again in Hendersonville May 2. Her husband Bill and daughter Chelsea have also come to Asheville.
Photos by Yonaton Arnold - Click for more
Candidate Woos Critical Tar Heel Support
Story by Paul Annas
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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