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Taylor University, Upland, IN
Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024
The Echo

Hope Bolinger

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Taylor University needs to cool it

By Hope Bolinger | Echo Window fan armies drown all noises by Olson and Wengatz. Further down the sidewalk leads to another dorm without air conditioning: English. To the right, see Gerig and Breuninger. Both have air conditioning. According to the Taylor website, 225 women live in English and 300 ...

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Interest starts to accrue

By Hope Bolinger | Contributor At least $1.48 trillion has been borrowed on a national level so far for 2018, according to Student Loan Hero. A total of 44 million people are in debt across the country. To bring this to Upland, according to Financial Aid Counselor Lyn Kline, 61 percent of Taylor students ...

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Works like a CHARM

By Hope Bolinger | Contributor One often doesn't think of the words makeover and building paired together. But, thanks to the CHARM Grant, starting March 7, smalls businesses in Grant County will have the opportunity to receive a paint job, sidewalk repairs, façade improvements, among many other possibilities. Headed ...

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No, there will not be a study guide for this

By Hope Bolinger | Echo Make a Google docs study guide and collaborate. Carve out two hours at Starbucks to flip through flashcards. Scan through Quizlet and pray some gracious predecessor provided a study set for your specific class. These make up a handful of the ways students advise each other on ...

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Party in Marion like it's 1817

By Hope Bolinger | Echo Not too often will the Ghost of Christmas Past and Christmas Present meet in the same place. On Dec. 8, for the third year in a row, the 105-year-old Hostess House will host Dining with Dickens. The event will take visitors back to the Victorian Era - 1812-1870 (for this particular ...

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The first draft journey

By Hope Bolinger | Echo "Everybody needs an editor," according to Linda Taylor, assistant professor of professional writing. Yes, even editors need editors. Taylor discovered this early in the process of revising her latest manuscript, "Word by Word: An Editor Guides Writers in the Self-Editing Process." The ...

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Geocache me outside

By Hope Bolinger | Echo The phrase "treasure hunt" often brings to mind imagery of gold-thirsty pirates scouring beaches with shovels in hand. But a modern-day treasure hunt requires a few simple items: a phone or G.P.S. for coordinates, a car (if you plan to venture far), a pen and a free schedule ...

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Bilbo Baggins celebrates 111 years

By Hope Bolinger | Echo One hundred and eleven years does not pass by that often. When the members of the Center for the Study of C.S. Lewis and Friends discussed options for events that year, they realized Sept. 22 fell on a Friday, the typical meeting day for the C.S. Lewis teas and other events. ...

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Sign up

By Hope Bolinger | Echo President of the new American Sign Language (ASL) club and junior Jordan Hardesty developed an interest in sign language when she collaborated with a deaf girl for a high school history group project. "She came to my house, and I had to write on a whiteboard what I was saying," ...

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A walk in the park

By Hope Bolinger | Echo Entering a state park for free is just a library card swipe away. Celebrating Indiana's state park centennial last year, libraries and state parks across Indiana partnered up and sent 240 park passes to each of the Indiana state libraries, one per library. However, according ...

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