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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring an interview with Eastern Mennonite University track star Chelsea Lawhorn. Show Length: 7:07. “I hope to hit 40 feet by the time I graduate.” And so it is that Chelsea Lawhorn has thrown down the gauntlet. The Eastern Mennonite University junior is already one…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] This is the first year probably ever that I’ve even seen one of the movies nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, much less three of them. For that I can thank Adam Greenbaum. I first met Adam a few years ago when he had this wild idea to buy a…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring a discussion of sports in American society with Eastern Mennonite University athletics director Dave King. Show Length: 25:53. You wouldn’t expect an athletics director at a university to be preaching the message that sports has become too much an obsession in today’s culture. It’d…
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Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz Many people prefer to avoid hospitals and nursing homes, but many Eastern Mennonite Seminary graduates have chosen these places to do ministry. About a dozen recent EMS graduates are pursuing chaplaincy roles as their ministry field, partially due to the Clinical Pastoral Education program at EMS. CPE gives students opportunity…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Jeff Ryman got the buzz. Carnegie Hall was on the line. Could he take the call? He knew what it had to be about. And he knew it was going to be amazing news. “I was alone in the choral suite, nobody around. And I sort of felt like I…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] Raise your hand if you thought Virginia Tech would win more than four ACC games this season. C’mon. Seriously. I didn’t know that the Hokies would win a single game. I mean, you lose guys like Zabian Dowdell, Jamon Gordon and Coleman Collins in one fell swoop,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” ACC Basketball Monday interview with Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg. Virginia Tech is back on the good side of .500 in ACC play, which means that the Hokies have to be considered part of the equation when it comes to the NCAA Tournament. Seth Greenberg…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring an interview with Virginia Tech hockey player Michael Hultberg. Show Length: 10:09. Virginia Tech’s 5-3 win over Virginia in the Feb. 17 Atlantic Coast Collegiate Hockey League regular-season finale for both schools set up a UVa.-Tech rematch in the first round of this weekend’s…
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Column by Steve Landes We have now passed the midway point of the 2008 General Assembly session, commonly referred to as “crossover.” The House passed 616 of the 1,576 bills filed by delegates and the Senate approved 433 of the 795 bills filed by senators. Now, the House will spend the bulk of its time…
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Column by Jim Bishop I’m at the point where jokes about old people don’t seem all that amusing. It’s painful to laugh – in more ways than one. However, I did hear a couple lately – and I’m thankful for the gift of hearing, even though my spouse isn’t sure how much I use it…
