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Remembering Prestley Blake’s recipe for success
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Remembering Prestley Blake’s recipe for success

Stewart Prestley Blake’s rules for life were simple: don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t bed hop, work hard, and have dessert with every meal.   While his stepdaughter Susan Abello doesn’t recommend following Blake’s eating habits, she attributes his success as a father, friend, business owner, and philanthropist to these core principles. Blake, who died in 2021...

Chaplain founds Student Ministries Board
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Chaplain founds Student Ministries Board

Beginning this semester, a new ministry group will provide student-led, interdenominational ministry opportunities to students on campus. The Student Ministries Board, assembled by College Chaplain Adam Rick, hopes to unite students across campus with the goal of worshiping Jesus together regardless of denominational or theological backgrounds. “There is no ministry on campus that is committed...

Olds never left
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Olds never left

Olds Residence may look like an abandoned 7-Eleven, but it’s the best freshman women’s dorm.  Sure, the fire alarm went off six times last year  — or was it more? We stopped counting. Yes, one of those times was at 3 a.m., and all 80 of us stumbled outside in pajamas and with bedhead.  And...

Campus gears up for Concert on the Quad
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Campus gears up for Concert on the Quad

Concert on the Quad will turn the grass outside of Christ Chapel into a live music venue tomorrow evening from 6-10 p.m. According to junior Josiah Jagoda, Student Activities Board event team lead, the concert will feature a variety of solo and group student musicians. SAB determined the lineup on a first come, first served...