Late this past Wednesday evening, I received word that Dr. Karen Walker was dismissed as a psychology professor at Wayne State College. This was disheartening and upsetting. I do not know every detail,...
Bitter cold and 30 mph winds were not enough to keep students and faculty members from attending a rally last Wednesday in support of the recently dismissed WSC professor, Dr. Karen Walker.
The rally...
Social media, at its inception, was a friendly place. When I first signed onto Facebook over a decade ago, my “friends’ included a few like-minded family members, left-leaning students, and a smattering...
Welcome, everyone, to the “Spring” semester. I am not entirely sure why its labeled “Spring,” since the vast preponderance of the term we are in the throes of winter, locked within layers of ice...
Wednesday morning’s meeting with Stan Carpenter and Charles Bunting, open so the public might offer opinions on qualities to look for when the two select a new president for Wayne State College, was...
In 2008, the Educated Perspective Seminar (EPS 300) was implemented. It was developed to serve as a capstone to the general education program and, eventually, to evaluate Wayne State’s general education...
As I write this column, grand jury action regarding shooting in Ferguson is imminent. In anticipation of unrest, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a “state of emergency” and activated the National...
Life, as we all know, is a theater of the absurd, an endless stream of stunning indignities that boggle the mind and break the spirit. Here is a short list of this semester’s emerging #WUTs:
Whenever...
“Stop pretending like it’s not happening,” said Dr. Mark Leeper
at the open forum ‘Being Black in Post Racial America’ hosted by the Political Science Club on Oct. 8. He called it an “enlightening...
A state college campus provides a substantial challenge to administrators and students alike. Given it is a state-run institution, employees of the college, at all levels, are constrained by the First...
A Nebraska State College System (NSCS) policy implemented in April brought about questions and concerns from faculty members at Wayne State College. As the school year continues, clarification is being...
If you believe everything you read on the internet (which I most assuredly do), the controversial founder of the Westboro Baptist Church is near death in a Topeka hospice.
The once fiery preacher, whose...
