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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
quot;The Femme Gaze" challenges the common perception of women in art. Photo Courtesy of Amy Ahern On April 10, Concord senior Sumer Cave presented her final photography project in the Memorial Gallery of the Alexander Fine Arts Center. Titled “The Femme Gaze,” her digital photo display features partially […]
Tobacco cessation education accompanies this change. Photo Courtesy of HowStuffWorks Concord University will now have designated smoking areas. Beginning Aug. 1, 2018, the Athens campus will officially restrict all smoking and vaping to the covered area behind the J. Frank Marsh Library, the gazebo between Marsh Hall and the Fine […]
The Phantom 4 DJI drone can be programmed to follow a set flight path. Photo Courtesy of Cinema5D Concord University’s geography department has acquired two Phantom 4 DJI drones for use in upper level geography courses. According to Dr. Thomas Saladyga, associate professor of geography, students will […]
Mr. James Biggs, professor of art, has taken on the role of interim chair. Photo by James Trent Correction: The SGA meeting was not live streamed to Facebook. On Tuesday, Feb. 6, Mr. Jack Sheffler, chair of the Fine Arts department, was fired from his tenured position at […]
Directress Vuranch portrays infamous pirate Grace O'Malley. Photo Courtesy of Caleb Zopp […]
Bonner representative helps students make fleece blankets. Photo Courtesy of Caleb Zopp On Tuesday, January 16, the Bonner Scholars Program honored Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with a movie and a service project. About 40 students gathered to view the movie “The Glass Castle” and to make fleece blankets […]
Now as the semester ends, Concord will be sending out reminders about course evaluations beginning Thanksgiving break. Though typically somewhat lengthy, these questionnaires seek to gauge the success of the class, in particular the skill and knowledge of the instructor. But how effective are course evaluations in measuring these things? […]
Jack in “Jack and the Witch” runs across an enchanted mill. Photo By Lydia McGee The word “hillbilly” might evoke a negative reaction from most people, but this semester, the Concord theater department focused on just how much this is not so. On Nov. 8, Concord University’s theater department premiered […]
Currently, Concord University does not have a tobacco free campus. Last semester, a survey and other initiatives brought to head a five-year-long debate between students, staff, and administration, or so the Concord University Student Activities Committee believed. On Feb. 8, 2017, the survey sent out to the entire campus […]
Brianna Duckworth will participate in the South East Theater Conference in Mobile, Alabama in March. Photo By Brianna Duckworth On Nov. 3-4, Concord University hosted the West Virginia Theater Association conference in the Alexander Fine Arts Center. Over the course of the weekend, several high schools competed to make it […]