By: Nicole Arpin | Echo This short narrative describes an evening I experienced out on the town while studying abroad for a semester in Cuenca, Ecuador in Fall 2014. "Why aren't there any cars?" someone asked as we walked toward Cuenca's central park on Wednesday night. Our small group of students and ...
By: Nicole Arpin | Contributor A week ago, we heard an old recording of Donald Trump for the first time--and our national consciousness was severely agitated. What was it about that recording that dug under our skin so deeply? We were already familiar with Trump's sexual ethics. I think what we hadn't ...
By Nicole Arpin | Contributor Who made your shirt? No, not the brand name sewn on the tag. Whose hands pulled the lever on the machine that stitched your jeans? Was their paycheck sufficient? Could they feed their family with it? How did that jean-stitching machine affect their community's air or rivers? American ...
By Nicole Arpin | Echo Every day at 10:45 a.m., two men join rapidly-forming lines. One man, a Taylor University student, meanders to the dining commons in plenty of time for lunch at 11:00 a.m. He devoured his large breakfast just before chapel, so his stomach isn't quite ready for lunch yet, but this ...
By Nicole Arpin | Echo In the bowels of the Modelle Metcalf Visual Arts Center, the Brotherhood's representatives stood front and center, modeling checkered sport coats and waiting for the crowd to hush. "I know some of you may have been personally harmed by the Brotherhood in the past," sophomore Wilson ...
By Nicole Arpin | Echo Last week, heads turned in the DC. Teetering curlicues of ice cream prompted excited chatter as students realized the sorely-missed soft-serve machine was running again. Who can we thank for its reestablishment? The Student Senate. Haven't heard of it? You're not alone. "No one ...
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