By Lauren Folk, Copy Editor
February 19, 2023 • No Comments
This poem appeared in the Fall 2022 magazine print edition. Grab your copy on campus today.
By Madison Nadeau, Contributor
February 19, 2023 • No Comments
Can you imagine that instead of sitting in a classroom on campus, going to class meant getting real-life experience? For nearly 30 years, this has been the reality for UA seniors majoring in Adolescent Young Adult Integrated Language Arts Education. A collaboration with Barberton High School allows UA students to get hands-on experience as academic mentors in junior and senior English classes. For an entire semester prior to student teaching, UA students take over a classroom at Barberton where they are responsible for all of their mentor teacher’s typical duties. This includes planning and executing lessons, taking attendance,...
By Natalie Mowad, Editor-in-Chief
February 10, 2023 • No Comments
The University of Akron Achievement Awards is an awards program held annually to honor UA faculty, staff, and contract professionals whose contributions warrant recognition. Student nominations are especially encouraged. “Student nominations are enthusiastically received by the Special Committee for Awards and Recognition as you have contact with so many members of our campus community on a daily basis,” Michelle Novachek, Coordinator at the Center for Gift and Estate Planning, said. Students often have extensive first-hand experience with faculty that allow them to write a compelling nomination letter. “Students...
By Alexa Baumberger, Correspondent
December 22, 2022 • No Comments
During a 2018 scholarship competition, University of Akron horn player Jordin Andrews noticed his body trembling. What would follow was nearly a year of frustration and questions after medicine prescribed by his doctor failed to stop his tremors. On January 18, 2019, Andrews received a diagnosis. He had a tumor approximately the size of a ripe peach on his Thalamus, the area of the brain responsible for movement. His biggest fear? No longer being able to pursue a career in music. Jordin Andrews was in fourth grade when he first picked up a trumpet for the school band. Immediately interested, he...
By Stephanie Musarra, Contributor
March 6, 2023 • No Comments
"Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four” will be airing on March 8, 2023, at the Jean Hower Taber Student Union from 7 – 9 P.M. This film is about a shocking example of discrimination shown toward the LGBTQ community in 1995. The screening of this documentary is free and open to the public. Four Latino women who identified as lesbians were accused of sexually abusing two children. They spent fifteen years in prison. They were finally freed in 2016 with the help of the Texas Innocence Project. Mary Triece, professor of communications and director of Women’s Studies at The University...
By Savannah Johns, Managing Editor
February 19, 2023 • No Comments
The Hower House Museum, home of the Hower family of Akron, OH, showcases women’s history and is “filled with artefacts collected by three of the Hower women on their travels around the world during the decades that spanned the 1880s through the 1930s,” says Tine Hreno, the Museum Guild’s co-vice president. Those three women whose history is intertwined with the prominent Victorian Mansion are: Susan Youngker Hower, Blanche Bruot Hower and Grace Hower Crawford. Susan and her husband, John Henry Hower, built the Hower home in 1871. John and Susan relocated to Akron near the end of the Civil War. During this time,...
By Camryn Moore, Contributor
January 27, 2023 • No Comments
The Lunar New Year, traditionally observed in Chinese culture, is being celebrated by families and organizations throughout the Akron Community. Students at the University of Akron kicked off the Lunar New Year on Monday, Jan. 23 with a diversity event held by Zips Programming Network (ZPN). But Akron-area celebrations aren’t done yet. On Saturday, Jan. 28 from 4:30 – 8:00 p.m., Downtown Akron Partnerships (DAP) is hosting a Lunar New Year Celebration at the Akron Civic Theater located at 182 South Main St. The free event includes food and beverages, provided in the theatre lobby, along with a variety...
By Savannah Johns and Owen Pinion, Managing Editor and Contributor
December 11, 2022 • No Comments
Akron’s #1 for Nonstop Hits, WZIP, has changed the lives of many students and alumni for decades – six decades to be exact. The station celebrates its 60th anniversary in 2022. Since 1962, The University of Akron has been home to a radio station operated by current students. When the station was first founded, it operated under the call sign “WAUP” which stands for Akron University Programs (A call sign refers to the number code that all radio stations use for identification). The broadcast of WAUP consisted of campus news, taped educational discussions and fine arts programming. The call sign was...
