Your mother may have told you that a half-truth is a lie, but she wasn’t a professional fact checker. At the Washington Post, fact checkers slap statements with up to four Pinocchios, and fact-checking site PolitiFact has a “Truth-O-Meter” with six shades of true and false — including, heaven forbid, “Pants on Fire.” Fact checkers...
As a freshman, Emily Goodling approached Associate Professor of German Fred Yaniga at the freshman dessert to tell him that she, not satisfied with the English translation, wanted to read Thomas Mann in the original German. “It’s kind of that sense of never being completely satisfied that really describes Emily,” Yaniga said. “She always wanted...
After finishing the Winona statue installed in Mrs. Stocks Park in June, local sculptor Heather Tritchka ’98 set her sights on a new project: sculpting aative Michigan animals for an installment at Baw Beese Lake. She will begin sculpting the first animals, a mother black bear and her two cubs, this December and said the...
When the RVs filled with families roll in Friday night and Saturday morning for a home game, the football players know it means one thing: Mom’s food. Well, and family, too. The post-game comfort-food buffet last Saturday punctuated the final tailgate of the season. Like every other home-game tailgate this season, slow cookers and Tupperware...
Jane Stewart picked her first flower when she was three, and she never stopped. Her parents tended a massive garden, and she grew up hauling water from the lake for the plants, planting rows of crops, canning produce, and checking off the long list of chores that kept them fed. Every once in awhile, her...