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GC Student Learns with Lizards in Dominican Republic

By Chase Snyder • Nov 19th, 2009 • Category: features, lead

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...

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Crowdsourcing

By Chase Snyder • Oct 22nd, 2009 • Category: maple log

Crowdsourcing, a portmanteau of "crowd" and "outsourcing," is what happens when an undefined group takes on responsibilities that would normally be delegated to a few experts, trained workers or even computers. It is a method of collaboratively handling a task whereby...

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A Restatement of Purpose…and some nifty links

By Chase Snyder • Oct 15th, 2009 • Category: maple log

This blog has been out of commission for several weeks now, and to celebrate the return of regular postings to The Maple Log, I thought I would reintroduce it, and then share some thoughts, and some links to other people’s thoughts, on the way that we, as people, process...

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For The Record: The Environment

By Chase Snyder • Oct 14th, 2009 • Category: for the record

This week's Record might as well be dubbed “The Environmental Issue,” (yes, its a pun), with all the coverage we have of 350.org and other environmental awareness projects occurring around campus. Since there won’t be a Record out next week because of fall break, we...

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Obama wins Nobel Prize

By Chase Snyder • Oct 9th, 2009 • Category: maple log

Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize this morning, Friday Oct. 9. Here are some links about...

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For The Record: Notes on Youtube Comments

By Chase Snyder • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: for the record

Since the inception of Youtube in 2005, the site has served up more than a billion videos for the entertainment and edification of the internet’s denizens. Often, during the week, if I find myself with 20 or 30 minutes of spare time, I’ll turn to Youtube, and fill that...

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Filmmaker Topaz Adizes to screen documentary at GC

By Chase Snyder • Oct 7th, 2009 • Category: lead, news

For Topaz Adizes, the international filmmaker who will visit campus next Wednesday, making a documentary about the United States meant leaving North America entirely. Adizes’ new documentary, titled “Americana,” will be screened in AD 28 at 7:30pm on Wednesday...

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Celebrating differences: Zoughbi Zoughbi on the Israel/Palestine conflict

By Chase Snyder • Sep 30th, 2009 • Category: lead, news

When Zoughbi Zoughbi, the founder of Wi’am Palestinian Conflict Resolution Center in Bethlehem, spoke as a guest of the PAX club on Sunday night, he started with a joke. “An Israeli and a Palestinian were riding on a plane together and the Palestinian got up to...

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For The Record-9/24/2009

By Chase Snyder • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: for the record

On travel: A new feature has been added to the Perspectives page of The Record this semester. "Beyond the Bubble" is a place where people who have had an educational experience, or one that shaped them personally, outside the confines of Goshen College's often insular...

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GC’s green lawns make way for wild growth

By Chase Snyder • Sep 23rd, 2009 • Category: lead, news

Just south of the Newcomer Center, a large rectangle of once-green grass is now a brown blot on the field. Roundup, an herbicide, was applied to the grass to make way for the planting of various native species, which will retain water, filter atmospheric carbon and...

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For the Record…

By Chase Snyder • Sep 17th, 2009 • Category: for the record

Some notes on communication and creativity: During the summer, I picked up a book called "A Whole New Mind" by Daniel Pink. The book is about a trend toward more creative and right-brain oriented success in the world of business and industry. Pink argues that...

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Aprils Fools’ Day ballooned early for Buschert

By Chase Snyder • Apr 1st, 2009 • Category: news

"How many balloons does it take to fill a professors office?" read a piece of paper stuck to John Ross Buschert's office door on Monday. The answer "720" was scrawled underneath the question in ballpoint pen. Buschert's office was filled halfway to the ceiling with...

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