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When a massive earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 12, the aftershock was felt across the world as aid organizations began to answer the call for help. Locally, Hamline and the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) have been part of the response.
You wake up, realizing that after hitting snooze one-too-many times, your alarm clock has decided to ignore you in return. You dart out of bed, skip the shower, throw on the nearest button down shirt you can find (never mind the red sauce stain), and don't even have time to grab a coffee, which makes you grumpy.
Josh Hackett, an '09 graduate, is self-publishing a 60-page memoir called No Chaser that will be released in February. The book, which includes poems, prose and short stories, covers the last six years of his life and starts with young adulthood. The Oracle recently sat down with Josh to ask him about the project.
Vampires, zombies and werewolves have become ubiquitous figures in our popular culture and some think they serve to tell us about ourselves. Several Hamline professors gave their own ideas about the monster phenomenon. Gender and Class Associate Professor of English Michael Reynolds said he read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and was most interested in adolescent females' relationships with Twilight.
In addition to millions of impressionable pre-teens and their mothers, a group of Hamline students are reading a selection of Twilight author Stephenie Meyer's novels this January. English professor Marcela Kostihova is teaching the class for the first time, which focuses specifically on Meyer's books.
TUESDAY, FEB. 2 Zen Meditation: 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. in the Chapel Job Search Group for Seniors: Learn how to network, market yourself and give a good interview with help from the CDC: 1 - 2:30 p.m. in the GLC 101E Gospel Choir: 7 - 8:30 p.m. in the Chapel WEDNESDAY, FEB.
In comers, behind walls and under your feet exists another Hamline not often seen by the everyday passerby. Limited to facilities workers and the occasional intrepid journalist, these spaces have either long been abandoned or are not open to the public to begin with.
$5 million university center donor went to 'all girls' Hamline during second World War.
One of only 10 teens and 20 people total chosen from the United States, Kephart ran the torch for the Vancouver Winter Olympics the allotted 300 meters on Jan. 18.
