Greece bailout and the Euro crisis
On Feb. 11 Athens was going up in flames. The Athenians set more than 40 buildings on fire, according to Bloomberg.com, during the weekend of Feb. 11 and 12. According to the Herald Sun website, more than 100,000 people marched on Parliament in Athens, resulting in over 60 arrests. The riots resulted after Germany’s Angela...
Hanging out with the President on Google+
Your Interview with the President
On Monday, Jan. 30, Google+ hosted a hangout entitled “Your Interview with the President” with President Barack Obama on YouTube and Google+ for almost an hour. A “hangout” is Google+’s version of a video conference call with one or more person, but unlike Skype with these capabilities, it is completely free. The video consisted...
Storehouses of Snow in Antarctica
Dan Runyon’s Visit to the Southern Continent
When Dan Runyon, assistant English professor at Spring Arbor University, finished his sabbatical last semester, he took a trek to Antarctica with his 83-year old father in law, Dr. E. Harrold Munn, Dean at Hillsdale College. They left for the southern tip of Argentina on Dec. 10 and returned Dec. 23. The excursion took place...
SOPA and PIPA, Protection?
Today, Jan. 18 is a day marked with blocked Facebook pictures. I realized that Wikipedia was protesting for the day by blocking its site, and that the Google had a large, Spy Kids type black bar covering its name. SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA is the Protect Intellectual Property Act. These...
Guat’s Up?
Warm Reflections On the Guatemala Semester
The semester is closing, and we semester abroad students feel torn leaving Antigua, Guatemala. When we arrived we knew little Spanish and had no idea what the semester would hold for us. We were both excited and nervous to spend more than three months living in a foreign culture.We’ve missed Artprize and Thanksgiving, fall colors...
Guat’s Up?
The last two weeks have been exciting for our group here in the land of eternal spring. We have thoroughly delighted in hearing of pre-Thanksgiving snow in Michigan as we enjoy every beautiful spring day in Guatemala. The weekend before Halloween we visited Lake Atitlan, what Aldous Huxley called “the most beautiful lake in the...
Guat’s Up With the Weather? : Living through tropical storm 12E
One nickname for Guatemala is “the land of eternal spring,” but this October, that meant lots of rain. From Oct. 11 until Oct.18 tropical storm 12E abruptly hammered the west coast of Guatemala, Mexico and El Salvador. Another natural disaster in Guatemala with floods, mudslides and turmoil left a handicapped people in a handicapped nation....
A Semester in Guatemala
Within two days of the 18 Spring Arbor University (SAU) students arriving in Antigua, Guatemala on Sept. 7, a 4.2 earthquake occurred about 70 miles southwest of the city. Our worlds have continued to be rocked in more ways than one. We are now living in a land known for its constant earthquakes, volcanic...
“Guat’s Up?” : An update on SAU Students’ Guatemalan experience
Antigua, Guatemala – If you read your e-mails in MySAU, then you know there were serious earthquakes here in Guatemala. These earthquakes were large enough to make national news, which for some parents is enough to call Diane Kurtz in the Cross Cultural Office to make sure their child is still breathing. On Sept. 19...
Director of SAU’s Office of Intercultural Relations Shares Vision
When Michael Eatman, Director of the Office of Intercultural Relations (OIR), began working in 2006, he was excited. And with good reason. Since his placement, Eatman and Student Development have been working hard to develop a solid intercultural program. They have changed the name from multicultural to intercultural in order to, according to Eatman, “reach...
Black Friday: Does Shopping Affect Your Soul?
Thanksgiving marks family get-togethers, turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie, and a day to enjoy with friends and family. Now, it is paired with another day: Black Friday. When Thanksgiving ends, Black Friday begins the Christmas shopping season with millions of Americans heading to stores that open up as early as midnight Thanksgiving Day’s night. Black Friday...
Drum Circle in the RCF
The drum circle thumped and thumped with every participant playing some sort of instrument, from djembes to shakers to giant drums. The exercise was designed to be an example of music therapy being used to lower stress levels. Jaine Merrit asked students whether their stress levels were lowered, with an affirming yes. Today in the...
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