By Ainslie Cromar – Life Editor Students sat in the Fireside Lounge on June 6 as Gimli and Pippin parted the crowd like they were on a red carpet. Almost everyone took their phones out for photos and social media posts while the two corgis yipped and twirled on four […]
Author: Ainslie Cromar
Resignations From Faculty and Staff of Color Leave Some Students Isolated
“Our leaders, who we look up to, are leaving,” Fijian-American student Vishal Nair said. “Where are we supposed to go? Are we supposed to follow them?” Nair said recent departures by faculty and staff of color have left him wondering what resources he has if the people he feels […]
Disability Office Offers Students Free Braille Transcriptions
By Ainslie Cromar – Life Editor A Reason to Love Clark: The Disability Support Services office offers free braille transcriptions of textbooks, graphs, pictures, exams and worksheets. Editor’s note: This article is an extended version of a previous story. A series of groove-like bubbles dots a piece of thick stock […]
Local Children’s Book Author Discusses Her Path to Publishing
By Ainslie Cromar – Life Editor Children’s book author and illustrator Kate Berube spoke on May 27 about her path to becoming an award-winning published writer, acting as the final hurrah of Clark’s 30th annual Columbia Writers Series and weeklong Spring literary festival. Berube said she’s loved writing books since […]
Culturing the Land: Native Species Restores Locale
Biology students took to the field once again May 14 to 17 at St. Cloud Park to promote ecological restoration through the outplanting of native plant species, which students nurtured from seedlings in Clark’s greenhouse. The Native Plant Center is a Clark program that replaced the horticulture program, designed to […]
Learning Through Laughter: Improv Group to Perform Alcohol Awareness Skit
By Ainslie Cromar – Life Editor Actors from educational improv troupe Mission Improvable will perform their show about alcohol abuse awareness, “A Shot of Reality,” on May 16 from 1–2 p.m. in the Gaiser Student Center. Angela Dechand, the Activities Programming Board’s educational events coordinator, organized the event featuring the […]
A Deeper Look Into Clark’s Cadaver Labs
When biology professor Tony Chennault first studied anatomy and physiology at the University of Puget Sound, he said his professor wheeled a single cadaver into the lab and the entire class huddled around the body in a poorly ventilated room. He still remembers the amazement surging through him and a […]
Artist to Speak on Merge Between Art and Diversity
By Ainslie Cromar – Life Editor Clark’s artist in residence, Portlander Horatio Hung-Yan Law, will end his stint on campus with a one-hour talk on art and immigration with Portland Community College multicultural center coordinator Liliana Luna on May 3 at 2 p.m. in the PUB’s fireside lounge before an […]
Beginning a Movement: Women’s Festival Launches Official Campaign
The annual International Women’s Festival kicked off its two-day event focused on awareness of sexual assault and violence against women on March 9 at 6 p.m. with a taco bar, tables of beaming women and a showing of “The Hunting Ground,” a documentary on women who fight against sexual assault […]
Student Government Blueprints Spring Quarter Events
By Ainslie Cromar – Life Editor The ASCC planned its Spring quarter student engagement events during its weekly Executive Council meeting on March 8. ASCC President Grace Moe said the ASCC will gather materials this month including notebooks, highlighters and pens to pass out for free during Spring quarter Welcome […]
