After sophomores Owen Fingerhut and RJ Norton and junior Daniel O’Dette heave their calculus books onto a table in the Mauck Hall lobby, they head to the kitchen to spice up their study session with a big pot of homemade chai tea. “It’s 2 inches sliced ginger, 10 cloves, six cardamom pods, 2 teaspoons black...
College students who volunteer at the Mary Randall Preschool on campus brighten the days of the preschool students they work with. The college volunteers are able to act as companions and mentors to the preschoolers, according to director of the preschool Sonja Bindus. The preschool has a “college helper” board which lets the preschoolers know...
After a clerkship with former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and being appointed the Chief Deputy Solicitor General for the state of Wisconsin, alumnus Ryan Walsh ’09 made the 2017 Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list in the Law and Policy category. According to Forbes Magazine, its 2017 “30 Under 30” List selected only 600 individuals...
Anyone driving up M-99 from Jonesville has likely seen the faded Mail Pouch Tobacco advertisement painted on the side of a dilapidated barn. The sign reads “Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco. Treat yourself to the best.” Such barns sit on roadsides all over the East Coast, South, and upper Midwest. There are 84 in Michigan and...
Few hobbies can count fending off coyotes among their perils. For seniors Danielle Ciarelli and Kim Deichmann, however, the possibility is not out of the question. The two biology majors both bred, raised, and showed rabbits at various fairs and competitions throughout grade school and high school, something they both said is far more complicated...