Friday, November 20, 2009
GC Student Learns with Lizards in Dominican Republic
By: Chase Snyder
• Nov 19th, 2009
Raising rhinoceros iguanas for an eco-tourism organization isn’t the first thing that pops to mind upon hearing the word “internship,” but for Hannah W. Miller, a senior in Goshen College’s environmental science program, that’s just what it meant.
In the summer of 2009, Miller spent six weeks at El Iguanario, an organization in the Dominican Republic that raises Cyclura cornuta (rhinoceros iguanas) with the hopes of releasing them into ...
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Haarer seeks breath of God through radio, poetry
By: Laura Schlabach
• Nov 19th, 2009
Carl Haarer, one of Boston’s top radio reporters, can play the guitar and piano, sing, write poetry and speak theology. He did all these things – and talked about journalism -- on Tuesday in his Umble Master Class keynote address.
Haarer, who works for WBZ, said he had no idea he would become a journalist when he graduated from Goshen College with an English major in 1979.
He described his job as a radio reporter as similar to ...
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Nursing students make history administering H1N1 vaccines
By: Alysha Landis
• Nov 19th, 2009
The last time it happened, it was smallpox and polio in the 1960s and 70s. Now, decades later, the public health system is back--the schools are giving mass inoculations—this time because of the H1N1.
Six Goshen College students in the Community Health nursing course have had the opportunity to be a part of this history-in-the-making, as they do their clinicals with the local health department, schools and with agencies that work with ...
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Volleyball Heads to Semifinals
By: micahck
• Nov 11th, 2009
The regular season wrapped up last Wednesday evening for the Goshen Volleyball team where they were unable to pull off the upset against #16 ranked Taylor University, falling in four sets.
First-year head coach Jim Routhier thinks the team will take pleasure from some smaller victories. The Leafs were able to win one set during the match. Taylor dropped just five sets during all of conference play this season, going undefeated. “There is a ...
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