Category: Features

Oct 02 2024

Features

Green Team focuses on improving campus sustainability

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Ella Kitchens, Staff Writer– The Green Team meets weekly to address environmental sustainability on campus, tackling a broad spectrum of issues.  Their efforts range from organizing composting initiatives to collaborating...

Oct 02 2024

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Global Fellows writes notes of welcoming affirmation to immigrants

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Ella Kitchens, Staff Writer– Denison Global Fellows gathered in Knobel Hall on Sept. 26 to embrace and support immigrants and refugees living in two communities in Ohio.  The group made...

Oct 02 2024

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An alarming issue: frequent fire alarms torment sleepy first-years

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Josh Thomas, Special to The Denisonian— Errrr. Errrr. Errrr.  Whether it is 1 a.m. or 1 p.m. the sound of the dorm fire alarm is the last thing dorm hall...

Oct 02 2024

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Professor Spotlight: Kurtz on love of basketball, history and rhetoric

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Noah Lebowitz, Special to The Denisonian – Jeff Kurtz, a Northfield, Ohio native, has been teaching at Denison for 23 years and has nothing but kind words for the students at...

Oct 02 2024

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The Frisbee Frogs leap back on campus

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Abby Webster, Special to The Denisonian— The Denison Ladies Ultimate Club, was the name of the women’s ultimate frisbee team on campus that was made up of those who shared...

Sep 25 2024

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TruCha Boba: Student-run business serves up sweet drinks 

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Lily Charkow, Arts & Life Editor – What started as a simple question posed by a curious student eventually became a popular business serving the campus community with sweet drinks...

Sep 25 2024

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Students share summer abroad experiences in Costa Rica, England

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Amelia Keng, Special to The Denisonian – Studying abroad is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that allows you to immerse yourself in another culture.  As a student-athlete on the women’s swimming and...

Sep 25 2024

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Professor Spotlight: Doug Swift on community storytelling

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Olivia Barton, Staff Writer – Though receiving tenure is a great honor, for Doug Swift, it was the moment he knew he needed to leave.  “I had more living and...

Sep 18 2024

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DU Votes helps give Denison voters a voice

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Olivia Barton, Special to The Denisonian — This November, the Bipartisan Policy Center estimated that nearly 244 million Americans will be eligible to vote.  The 2016 and 2020 elections showed...

Sep 18 2024

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New VP of student life, Ricardo Hall, on community

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Ella Kitchens, Special to The Denisonian — Dr. Ricardo Hall believes that every student can belong at Denison. “Belonging is of central importance to everybody,” Hall said. “That’s not just...