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Manno to oversee his final campus event with CHP
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Manno to oversee his final campus event with CHP

When Director of Strategic Services Anthony Manno ’13 graduated and began working as director of student activities five days later, people told him he had big shoes to fill. But Manno said Assistant Dean of Men Jeffery “Chief” Rogers told him, “You’ve got your own shoes to fill,” and he thought, “Yeah, I do, and...

Money transfer delays Charger X
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Money transfer delays Charger X

Enactus is beginning to pull loose ends of its Charger X ride-sharing project together and expects to be in business by the fall semester. Issues with the money wire transferring to an app developer in India delayed the entrepreneurship club, which initially had predicted a launch date of mid-April. The students had to add a...

Cats, kitchen utensils, and creepy cowboys: The Collegian goes antiquing
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Cats, kitchen utensils, and creepy cowboys: The Collegian goes antiquing

When your grandparents were children, they probably saw an episode of NBC’s “Howdy Doody,” which ran from 1947 to 1960 and starred “Buffalo” Bob Smith and his puppet, Howdy Doody, a play on the Western greeting “howdy do.” Today, you can find the 70-year-old freckled cowboy puppet at Hog Creek Antiques in Allen, Michigan. It...

Campus ministries invite speaker on Christian unity
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Campus ministries invite speaker on Christian unity

Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy at Boston College, is speaking Thursday at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Friday at 4 p.m. in Dow A & B to address logic, heaven, and Christian unity. The Catholic Society partnered with InterVarsity, the Lutheran Society, and the departments of education and philosophy and religion, and the chaplain’s...