By Elizabeth Syson | Echo Three days before classes began, I squinched my eyes shut while a guy from my dorm ran the cold teeth of hair clippers over my head. All I could say after that first pass was, "What if I have an ugly head?" As my hair fell in chunks to the floor, I realized I had no backup ...
By Emily Brokaw | Contributor At college, we sometimes forget that there are people in this world who are not college students or professors. When we're in class, cramming homework assignments and last minute studying and trying to juggle a job and an over-booked schedule, we tend to be preoccupied ...
By Elizabeth Syson | Echo Most people see hula-hoops as children's toys, but Gabbi Cunningham considers them an artistic medium. Most people can twirl a hula-hoop around the waist-Cunningham dances in and out of the hoop, spinning it on her arms, legs and neck often in rhythm to music, turning a childhood ...
By Elizabeth Syson | Echo The rollout of My Taylor University Degree heralds an end to stressful hours of pouring over course lists, adding up credits and scouring graduation requirements for tiny but vital details. This degree audit program, made available March 16, allows students to see their degree ...
By Elizabeth Syson | Echo "One night . . . three of the girls came in, they locked the door, and they started telling me everything they had experienced," Julie Hedberg, a 2012 Taylor graduate, said. In those next moments, her image of a thriving orphanage was shattered. When Hedberg started a humanitarian ...
By Elizabeth Syson | Echo Colliding protons, antimatter and a Taylor student: these are all things that will be found at the CERN-"Conseil Europeen pour la Recherche Nucleaire," or European Council for Nuclear Research-this summer. Jordan Melendez was selected as one of 10 American undergraduates to ...
By Elizabeth Syson | Echo "We're open!" proclaims a plastic sign in Thai on the front door. Blankets, cushions and students litter the living room floor, especially on Saturday mornings, and laughter rings free. In the hallway hang flags: Brazil, Kenya, Australia-a piece of each corner of the world ...
For trans individuals, bathroom signs are anything but black and white.
For sexual assault survivors, the bathroom policy issue is anything but black and white.
God has been calling his people to go against popular opinion for millennia.
Football players are at risk for CTE from repeated head trauma.
Staying inside and reading is sometimes more fun than events.
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