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(05/16/22 5:00pm)
In the Spring of 2019, I interviewed JoAnn Rediger for an article about her retirement and something she said has always stuck with me. I asked her what she had planned for her retirement. “What’s next?” Rediger said. “The seniors and I have that in common. We both keep getting that question.”
(05/09/22 3:00pm)
Halbrook Distinguished Chair of Government, Abby Kuzma, will be retiring at the end of the semester after an impressive, decades-spanning career advocating for the victims of human trafficking, immigrants and asylum-seekers.
(05/02/22 4:30pm)
When I think of the moment I learned the most about generosity, I think about snow.
(04/25/22 9:00pm)
Provost Jewerl Maxwell may have only inhabited his new role at Taylor since November, but his road to Upland stretches much further back in time.
(04/04/22 3:00pm)
“Florals for spring? Groundbreaking.”
(03/14/22 3:00pm)
After an uncontested race, juniors Kenley Blake and Josue Villalobos emerged officially as the 2022-2023 student body president and vice president on March 3.
(03/07/22 4:00pm)
Growing up, I did not have any spiritual mentors. This was because my church, like many others, excluded women from leadership.
(02/21/22 6:00pm)
There are some people whose stories become so common that they themselves become legends. Once those individuals reach legendary status, their stories no longer belong to them, but to the people who tell their stories.
(12/06/21 4:00pm)
Since October 2009, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk, “The Danger of A Single Story” has accrued over 9 million views. It is safe to say that many of those viewers have been Taylor students.
(12/06/21 4:00pm)
Oprah Winfrey used to write a column entitled “Things I know for sure.” She admitted in an interview that this title was intimidating in and of itself because there are so few things we know to be unequivocally true.
(11/22/21 4:30pm)
The return of healthy competition for a good cause. That was the heart and soul of this year’s Empty Bowls.
(10/25/21 5:00pm)
With four books published only two years out of college, it is hard not to be impressed with Alyssa Roat (’19).
(10/12/21 12:00pm)
I think out of all the Psalms, my favorites are the ones written by David for the choirmaster. What distinguishes them for me is the total humanness that shines through in the writing. He spends time both delighting in the presence of God and expressing real grief about whatever situation he is in.
(09/27/21 5:30pm)
In September 2020, country singer Kacey Musgraves announced her divorce from her husband Ruston Kelly in Elle magazine. The split followed now-confirmed rumors of Kelly cheating with actress Olivia Munn.
(09/13/21 3:00pm)
Following the results of the student body election held in the spring of 2021, seniors Sarah Mangan and Jorge Martinez de Santiago became the student body president and vice president.
(09/13/21 3:00pm)
As I looked around my senior apartment this move-in season, I realized how lucky I was to not only be living with three of my closest friends, but to have met all three of those friends during freshman Welcome Weekend.
(04/28/21 12:00pm)
As I look at these last few weeks of school, I think about all the things that are ending. Several of my closest friends, even an old roommate, are graduating. In a few short weeks, five hundred people will walk from one side of the stage into a different world of marriages and mortgages and workplace dramas.
(04/14/21 11:00am)
We talk a lot about tough love and how necessary it is. But I think it is important to be clear about what this kind of love should really look like.
(03/24/21 11:00am)
One time, my high school choir performed at a church on a tour we did of California. It was one of those small, country churches where the carpet is older than the congregation and the fabric-covered chairs release a mushroom cloud of dust if you hit them with an outstretched palm.
(02/22/21 12:00pm)
I remember when I was in sixth grade, my English teacher illustrated the word “multifaceted,” a word which describes something complex, as a diamond with many sides. I think it was the way he described this word that made me remember it. His eyes were wide enough to seem crazy and his usually calm voice rose as he looked on his crowd of 11- and 12-year-olds trying to convey his message, that if you spend your life only looking at one side of the diamond, you miss out on so much of its beauty.