Archive for April, 2011
Vice president of academic affairs considers smaller departments
Question of accountability when departments are only staffed by 1-2 professors
Official statement to the college from Preston House residents
Members from cooperative housing highlight how lack of transparency in decision making undermines the college
Business students initiate sustainable startup
Students to propose a new crew to continuing running operation
Preston House issue undecided
Pfeiffer proposes to rethink eviction
Warren Wilson theater presents “The Cherry Orchard”
College performs Anton Chekov’s final play
Decommissioning and razing of Carson Hall authorized
Ceremony planned to celebrate building’s life
Anarcho-Primitivism and Christianity: Ecological Imperatives beyond Belief
Dave Grace, junior There are ample resources for criticism of christianity as anti-ecological based on the development of the historical form of the Church, implicitly and explicitly espousing a message of Earth domination with the disembodied belief in an otherworldly future, in as much as it has been aligned with industrial forces. This brand of [...]
Warren Wilson Alumni Jesse Fripp Skypes for Geography Class
Microlending has been heralded as an excellent means of assisting the poor who lack access to credit, capital and financial services.
Alaska by Colin Garrity
After my first paycheck, I bought a second hand tent and a sixteen-dollar bicycle. Plenty of Inuit and Eskimo and high school kids: wrist braces and missing teeth. The foreman had a mullet and a limp so got out of there as fast as I could.
Dispatch from Brazil
Sari Bellmer, Correspondent I’ve been in Brazil for just three weeks now and it feels as though I’ve been here for ages, though I’m constantly reminded that I only just arrived. I am here in the city of Salvador, on the coast of Northeast Brazil. Here, verão (the summer) is coming to a close and [...]
Renowned guitarist, singer, songwriter, author, activist and traveler David LaMotte comes to campus April 7–8
LaMotte will examine how structural changes to society actually come about and how to effectively make a difference.
What’s happening to Carson Hall?
Plans to create new building, purpose yet to be determined
Brooklyn’s Indie Darlings The Vivian Girls Coming To Sage Café
Primary songwriter, Cassie Ramon, sits down with The Echo
Energy Services audits service learning building
Crew assesses energy efficiency of older office on campus
Re-examining the service program
The service learning office considers how to rework and strengthen the program
Professor of religious studies announces departure
Tsering Wangchuk will join the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco
Plumbing crew participates in “green plumbing” workshop
Students learn how to bring environmental literacy to the plumbing trade
Flooding in Sunderland leads to relocation of students
Assessment of recent flooding in freshman dorm
Librarian Martha Mclean finishes book, Looking for Sheville, while in treatment for breast cancer
Maddy Dillon, Staff Writer Martha McLean, beloved library staff and community member, was diagnosed with breast cancer over a year ago. While taking the necessary time off work to undergo treatments, McLean was able to finish writing Looking for Sheville, a book describing her experiences coming out within the early formation of Asheville’s lesbian community [...]
Upcoming Events
- Rain and all, nearly 200 receive degrees at 2013 Commencement May 18, 2013N.C. Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti, an alumnus of WWC's MFA Program for Writers, delivered the main address. […]
- May 18: N.C. Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti to deliver WWC Commencement Address May 17, 2013The 2013 Commencement, beginning at 10 a.m., has been moved to DeVries Gymnasium because of a steady rain. […]