By: Ally Horine | Echo Transitions are difficult, especially when they mean your friends scatter across the country. Increased distances make staying in touch difficult, and relationships often fade. It has taken effort, but many alumni have managed to maintain strong ties with some of their Taylor ...
By: Ally Horine | Echo During one of The Village Tree's meetings last summer, the group noticed an overflowing dumpster on campus, filled with discarded belongings of Taylor students who had left at the end of the semester. Most of those belongings were still usable, but dumpster ...
By: Ally Horine | Echo When students first hear about summer research projects, they probably don't think about doing photo projects or studying the effects of internal motivation. Through recent funding, research projects are expanding their definition to include a broader span of majors and topics. Several ...
By Ally Horine | Echo Twenty-three years after graduating Taylor as a student, Michael Hammond ('92) has returned home. But this time, his role looks a little different. In Spring 2014, Taylor began the search for a new dean for the School of Humanities, Arts and Biblical Studies (HABS). "We talked ...
By: Ally Horine | Echo Weeks of intense planning, campaigning and hand shaking have paid off for juniors Kasey Leander and Camila Chiang. The duo has been elected student body president (SBP) and student body vice president (SBVP) for the 2015-16 academic year. Leander and Chiang received 623 votes, ...
By Ally Horine | Echo Bob Goff Bob Goff greets everyone he meets with a hug. His passion and love for others show within the first 30 seconds of meeting him. He believes passionately in the power of action and loving others. His first book, "Love Does," has reached the New York Times Best Seller list ...
By: Ally Horine | Echo Change emerges from a combination of powerful words and actions. The National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC) chose its two keynote speakers to represent both sentiments: Bob Goff as a role model for action and Christena Cleveland as a guide for words and reconciliation. Bob ...
By Ally Horine | Echo I am so tired of hearing about Kim Kardashian. Whether she's on the actual news or on my newsfeed, I can't get away from her. So I have to ask, what's the obsession? I get that we all love a train wreck-there's a reason I watch The Bachelor every year. Yet at the end of The Bachelor ...
By Ally Horine | Echo After hosting a prospective student with cerebral palsy this past fall, sophomore Anna Gunderson made a new discovery: Taylor's campus is desperately inaccessible to students with disabilities. "Because of her disability, this student used a power chair," Gunderson said. "We ...
By Ally Horine | Echo When senior Miki Sir left Iowa on Sunday to return to Taylor, she did not expect having to stop and stay at a hotel in Galesburg, Ill. A winter storm that dumped 8-10 inches across the Midwest left her stranded during her long trek back to campus. "The roads were extremely icy ...
Nicole (Sampley) Parker and Allison (Hoekstra) Weber are still friends 12 years after graduation
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