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Kathleen Fountain
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Head basketball coach Page Moir’s 370th win has resulted in his being the winningest coach in the history of the ODAC. He has been coaching at Roanoke for 23 years and doesn’t see that changing any time soon.
“When I was 25 I wanted to do this until I [...]
Continue Reading →As advertised in Colket and around campus, Students Interested in health careers has been sponsoring events at Salem Pizza for Drew Bennett. SIHC is a dual organization of SIHC and Alpha Epsilon Delta. Last spring, Roanoke College received a chapter from AED, a national pre-health honor society.
SIHC and AED are active [...]
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Zumba at Roanoke College has become more and more popular this year as a fun way of working out and staying active.
Instructor Ginny Hinson ’11 started teaching last semester after becoming certified for group fitness programs and learning Zumba on her own. She was first introduced to the Zumba DVDs by a [...]
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This past week, Roanoke College was taken over with the theme of HBO as the Honors Program celebrated their annual Honor’s Conference Week.
The week’s theme, which was chosen by Committee Chairperson Carmella Parker ’12 and Honors Program President Kayla Klingensmith ’12, was based upon the popular television station and different shows [...]
Continue Reading →Staff Writer On January 26, English professor Dr. Melanie Almeder was awarded a 2011 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education and Dominion Resources.
Almeder is one of just twelve faculty members across the state to receive the award out of over one hundred applicants. The award is considered to be [...]
Continue Reading →Staff WriterMadrid Kids is a local band composed of four RC students. MK recorded their first 6-track studio EP at Music Lab in the Jefferson Center downtown Roanoke, this past May. The band was in the studio 4 days and the EP was released in June 2010.
The band started with Brooks Allison ’10 [...]
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“Classic for Tomorrow,” Roanoke College’s motto, was the idea for a new on-campus organization.
RC Electric was an idea developed by a group of students in the Environmental Science Department. The goal of the organization was to convert a classic 1939 Pontiac Silver Streak into an electrically-run automobile.
“You can buy an [...]
Continue Reading →For a group of Roanoke College students there is no such thing as a useless fact. Instead for the members of the Roanoke College Quiz Bowl team that apparently useless piece of information is what they are all about.
The Quiz Bowl Team is a group of students who represent Roanoke College at a series [...]
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Bryan Ryberg, the director of campus recreation, is from Pacific North West Seattle. He graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor’s in History and received his Master’s in Education from Florida Atlantic. Roanoke College offered him his first career position graduation from graduate school.
RC hired him in order [...]
Continue Reading →Roanoke College welcomes University of Zilina and Lutheran Bible School professors Michal Valco and Katarina Valcovā for the fall 2010 semester. The couple arrived from northern Slovakia on Aug. 8 and will be co-teaching classes entitled “Europe Twenty Years After Communism: Historical, Political and Religious Perspectives” and “Christian Faith and Life.”
Continue Reading →Valerie Maldonado – Managing Editor
Roanoke College has two student-run media outlets, The Brackety-Ack and a radio station known to many as “The Wreck”. The radio station, with the official name of WRKE, 100.3, reaches all of RC and the surrounding Salem community within a five mile radius.
The station’s design and planning process started [...]
Continue Reading →Among Roanoke College’s many publications—daily email updater, the Roanoke College newsletter, literary magazine, etc.—there is the school’s weekly newspaper, The Brackety-Ack. Usually available by the entrance to the Commons, many may have noticed that the paper is M.I.A. as of late.
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