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News@McDaniel 02/12/07
  • Women’s basketball regular season champs host playoffs
  • Serbian student scribe new newspaper editor
  • Hill Happenings
  • Tax help program selected as model
  • Students lobby lawmakers in Annapolis
  • Professor joins Raising Malawi’s academic support network
  • Loren Pope receives 2007 NAICU Award; introduced by President Coley
  • New Jan Term trips teach philosophy, volunteerism
  • Human rights expert to give annual Resnick Lecture
  • McDaniel welcomes new advancement officer
Women’s basketball regular season champs host playoffs
After clinching the regular season championship, The Green Terror women’s basketball team is gearing up to host the Centennial Conference (CC) women’s basketball championship tournament Feb. 24-25 in Gill Center. » Full Story
Serbian student scribe new newspaper editor
In the dimly lit McDaniel Free Press office in Rouzer Hall, Djerdj Matkovic ’07 sits in front of a glowing computer. Pictures of former editors line the walls. This spring, his photo will be added. Students elected Matkovic, a transfer student from McDaniel’s Budapest campus, co-editor of the newspaper. » Full Story
Hill Happenings
Michael Nylan, photo courtesy of University of California, Berkeley
Ridington Lecture, “Beliefs about Seeing: Optics and Theories about Misperception in Early China.”
Piano recital by the students of Music lecturer David Kreider
McDaniel College Theatre presents “Lobby Hero” » Full Story
Tax help program selected as model
McDaniel College’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, in which students offer free tax filing for community members with low to moderate incomes, has been selected by the Internal Revenue Service as one of two test sites in Maryland for electronic filing. » Full Story
Students lobby lawmakers in Annapolis
Robert DeBauFre’ ’07, Sen. Larry Haines, Gregory Miller '09
For Robert DeBauFre’ ’07, attending Maryland Independent Higher Education Day was a way to thank the lawmakers that made his education possible. » Full Story
Professor joins Raising Malawi’s academic support network
It’s been four years since Assistant Professor of Sociology Linda Semu visited her hometown in Malawi. But even from her desk in Lewis Hall, she is able to touch lives in the tiny country in the south central region of Africa after joining the academic support network for Raising Malawi. » Full Story
Loren Pope receives 2007 NAICU Award; introduced by President Coley
Loren Pope, author of "Colleges That Change Lives" and other influential college guides, was selected by the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) to receive its 2007 Award for Advocacy of Independent Higher Education. » Full Story
New Jan Term trips teach philosophy, volunteerism
Jonathan Orr ’08, Amanda Caroe ’09, Tara Stack ’09, Stephanie Albright ’09, Martin Camper ’07 and Rebecca Huffstetler ’08 among town residents.
McDaniel students built houses in Guatemala and explored intellectual enlightenment in London during two Jan Term classes offered for the first time this year. » Full Story
Human rights expert to give annual Resnick Lecture
Yael Stein, the academic coordinator of the Atidim program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s School of Public Policy, will speak at the seventh annual Resnick lecture about human rights and international humanitarian law regarding the complexities of the situation in Israel. » Full Story
McDaniel welcomes new advancement officer
Lawrence Read Junkin is joining the staff of McDaniel College as associate vice president of development, with oversight for the operational organization of the College's fundraising program.  » Full Story
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