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Item by Jim Bishop Eastern Mennonite University will culminate activities marking its 90th anniversary year with its annual commencement exercises to be held 1 p.m. Sunday on the front lawn of campus, weather permitting. President Loren Swartzendruber will confer 411 degrees – 291 undergraduate, 89 graduate, 17 associate degrees, 7 graduate certificates and 7 Study…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A 25,000-seat stadium in I-AA football – sorry, but I refuse to go with that stupid new nomenclature that divides college football’s Division I into a Bowl Subdivision and a Championship Subdivision, and really, you should, too … Ahem. Sorry. I allowed myself to get off track there. What I…
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Column by Jim Bishop When I was a child, I thought as a child. When I became an adult, well … This adult, a senior citizen still reliving his second childhood, often reflects upon that early, formative period of life. Recently, in the church small group I belong to, we spent time responding to a…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Do you miss those wonderful old screwball comedies from the 1930s? Well, now’s your chance to carpe diem – seize the day – and return to those jolly times of yesteryear. You’re in for a real treat watching “Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day” currently playing at…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I just finished reading To Kill A Mockingbird, and lemme tell ya … It’s a cryin’ shame that my high-school English teacher had us watch the movie instead. I understand why. Harper Lee was true to 1935 Alabama in her language, and it included an uncomfortable, to…
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Story by Faryal Zubair The colors seem brighter, the words seem bigger, and the laughter is louder. Why is it that it is all seems more interesting when you’re younger? Isn’t it strange that the books that once compelled you to write stories of your own now sound obnoxious and repetitive? Dr. Seuss is one…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen In 1923, Buster Keaton devoted one-third of his “Three Ages” feature film to an energetic, slapsticky take on our cave-dwelling ancestors. Perhaps we should have left well enough alone, and just completely abandoned the idea of ever making a “good” movie about our Ally Oopian predecessors from…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Am I the last movie fan in the universe to discover “The History Boys?” No matter – it’s one of those movies you just stumble across by accident, and suddenly remember why you love cinema. And if you are enamored of character development, crazy about the clever…
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Column by Jim Bishop The clean-cut group, The Brothers Four, hit the music scene in a big way in 1960, and then quietly disappeared with the advent of folk-rock and the British invasion. Members Bob Flick, John Paine, Mike Kirkland and Dick Foley formed in 1957 as fraternity members at the University of Washington in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Don’t get your hopes up about seeing the New York Yankees when they come to Blacksburg next month. There will be no tickets available to the general public for the March 18 exhibition game between Virginia Tech and the Yankees at English Field. The school is making 3,000 free general-admission…
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