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SEPTEMBER 17, 2015
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VOLUME 138, NO. 2
Clinton visits Luther
Faculty members present research ELIZABETH HURLEY STAFF WRITER
and campaigns with a platform of political change. “The election is about whether we continue to move forward or make a U-turn back to failed politics,” Clinton said. Taking the college setting into account, Clinton brought up issues of college debt and affordability. “I have a clear idea about how we can make college more affordable,” Clinton said. “I want to refinance those debts and bring the cost down for you.” Clinton also connected to Luther College on a sustainability front. “I take seriously, and will do all that I can, building off what President Obama has done, to combat climate change,” Clinton said. “There is much we have to do, but we have to become the clean energy super power of the 21st century…By the end of my first term, we’ll have halfa-billion more solar panels installed in America, and we will have enough clean energy to power every home.”
Faculty members will present in the Faculty Research Symposium (FRS) on Saturday, Sept. 19. Aimed toward faculty, staff, students and the Decorah community, faculty are asked to participate in the discussions sparked by these presentations. Much like the Student Research Symposium in the spring, the FRS is meant to showcase faculty members’ work, foster learning and create interdisciplinary connections in both learning and networking. “It’s a chance for us as faculty to model to students how we live out this idea of liberal arts: why we all agree that it’s important to take classes in these different fields as part of a college community,” presenter and Assistant Professor of English Andy Hageman said. Consisting of both creative and researchbased work, the three panels each host multidisciplinary presentations. Done purposefully to promote connections, audience members are asked to join the conversations by asking questions during the Q&A sessions and conversing between panels. “These are short, 12 to 15 minute talks for a reason,” Hageman said. “This is not about delivering knowledge so much as, ‘here are the questions we are exploring, here are the materials and methods’ and then we have the question and answer time and long stretches in between [panels]. The idea is that people stick around and talk to each other about what they heard.” These conversations are what make the symposium interesting to Associate Professor of English Amy Weldon. “I think the same thing happens in the FRS that starts to happen in your classes,” Weldon said. “People start to make connections.” The Faculty Research Symposium began as a desire to make connections and learn more about other disciplines.
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CLINTON COMES TO TOWN. Hillary Clinton speaks in the Center for the Arts as part of her presidential candidacy campaign tour. Cody Arndtson / Chips KATIE NELSON & ANNA JEIDE NEWS EDITORS Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke at Luther College for the Women for Hillary Organizing Event sponsored by Iowa Women for Clinton on Sept. 14. Despite an afternoon rain shower, attendees were not deterred from waiting in line upwards of one hour to see Clinton. About 350 students, faculty, staff and Decorah community members gathered in the atrium of the Center for the Arts to hear Clinton speak. Clinton delivered a speech focusing primarily on women’s equality, improving the economy by strengthening the middle class income and creating greater accessibility for early childhood education. Clinton’s speech was followed by a question and answer session with the audience. “She really brought out the energy and spoke from experience, and even spoke about things that won’t be easy,” George Mapaya (‘16) said. Clinton has very clear goals for the upcoming election
Todd Green talks 9/11 in chapel MADILYN HEINKE VOLUNTEER WRITER
Associate Professor of Religion Todd Green delivered a chapel talk on the fourteenth anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, to a congregation of about 150 people. Green led the congregation in remembering not only those who lost their lives on that day, but also in remembering those who have suffered since that morning 14 years ago. Green acknowledged the tragedy of Sept. 11, then urged the congregation to remember the events following that day, including the U.S. decision to declare war on terror. This war has killed more than one million people and left another 7.6 million as
refugees. “I certainly want us to remember the nearly 3,000 people who died in the U.S., but I also want us to remember the lives of many other people who suffered because of 9/11,” Green said. “I want us to remember the devastation, destruction and death triggered by the U.S. war on terror, and I want us to remember the people who have been tortured by our nation because of the war. These people are also worthy of our memory.” Green went on to recount the cruel and dehumanizing effects 9/11 has had on detainees and prisoners held under the pretense of national security. CHAPEL TALK, PAGE 4
TALK OF TRUTH. Assosiate Professor of Religion Todd Green remembers 9/11 in his chapel talk. Madilyn Heinke / Chips