Abigail Roberts | Echo Buying local, farm-grown meat and produce for many students may seem like a worthy but impossible commitment, but Micah Stewart ('19), Rob Reber, assistant professor of environmental science, and local Upland farmers think otherwise. Imagine you're in the process of buying a car. ...
Abigail Roberts | Staff Writer According to BBC News, the 1.2 billion-member Catholic Church continues to globally face the exposure of decades of sexual abuse, specifically the abuse of minors. Discussion on sexual abuse within the Catholic Church exploded into the U.S. public eye in 2002 after a ...
Abigail Roberts | The Echo This spring, Rachael Rohwer will graduate as Taylor's first Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC) major. Created by Professor of Psychology and the Director of Initiatives for OVC Scott Moeschberger in 2009, OVC existed for eight years as a minor. "Two years ago I was approached ...
Abigail Roberts | The Echo Taylor sits in the middle of a food desert. A food desert is an area with low local access to fresh produce and foods. Unbeknownst to many local residents, Aggressively Organic estimates that every county in Indiana struggles with food insecurity. This includes Taylor University's ...
Abigail Roberts | The Echo Taylor's English department provides a space for every Taylor student to excel, as they continue to reach above and beyond expectations. On Oct. 18, 2018, Nancy Dayton, department chair and a professor of English, presented the English department's eight-year review to Taylor's ...
By Abigail Roberts LaRea Slater, an Upland community member is working to raise the necessary $20,000 to restart the SEGway, Upland's community paper, by March 1. Due to lack of funds, the SEGway recently ceased publication this past December, but Slater plans to bring it back. "I feel very strongly ...
Abigail Roberts | Echo Last weekend, Feb. 1-3, Taylor Theater presented a stunning adaption of the 1963 romantic comedy "She Loves Me." It is a romantic pen-pal relationship: boy writes girl, girl writes boy, and among the dozens of exchanged letters, they fall in love. Strangers, destined by fate to ...
Abigail Roberts | The Echo This coming Monday, Dec. 3 Taylor is holding its first informational session for students on Title IX. In light of a growing social movement around campus sexual assault, gender identity and discrimination, universities are focusing and spending more time on Title IX training ...
Abigail Roberts | The Echo This week, Open Doors released their 2016-2017 report with Taylor ranking among top five across all three of their categories: total number of students studying abroad, percent of students studying abroad and overall sum of students involved in short term study abroad programs. In ...
Abigail Roberts | The Echo Each year, Taylor sends two to three teams of five to Ethics Bowl's regional competition. Out of 28 teams, this year, Taylor placed third and sixth. All top five teams move on to nationals, held in Baltimore, Maryland next spring. Seniors Josie Luptak and Caleb Holleman as ...
The moment one walks into Second Fiddle customers are enveloped by creativity and caught up in the Christmas spirit. (Photograph by Abigail Roberts)
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