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Taylor University, Upland, IN
Friday, April 26, 2024
The Echo

Julia Oller

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Communication without clarity

By Julia Oller | Echo Over the past week, a cloud has settled over campus, and its shape closely resembles the letters U, P and R. Rumors surrounding the University Program Review (UPR) fell like fat raindrops several days before the official unveiling, but the angst only seemed to grow through the ...

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Pathetic perseverance

By Julia Oller | Echo College students are wimps. We have the backbone of jellyfish and the stamina of a toddler running a marathon. And as the end of the semester nears, bringing with it a need to endure, the dregs of our pitiful tenacity sink to the bottom of a Netflix ocean. According to a recent ...

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Molding young artists

By Julia Oller | Echo Seven Taylor students sprinkled throughout Metcalf classrooms on Tuesday afternoons aren't there to listen but to lecture. A part of the Elementary Methods class required for all art education majors, Art After School is a five-week art program for local elementary school students. ...

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An education in service

By Julia Oller | Echo When Nate Aeilts vacated campus one weekend each month during his first year and a half at Taylor, his journey was no casual road trip. The senior headed to Indianapolis to drill with a unit of the National Guard through January 2014 as part of his military duty, which also sent ...

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Student Development structure to shift

By Julia Oller | Echo Beginning next fall, the Student Development office will undergo a personnel restructuring to increase efficiency and collaboration between offices. Student Development will be further divided into two departments-one focusing on student care and the other encompassing student ...

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Setting the Standard

Julia Oller | Echo Flying down the football field on wings that looked suspiciously like the Taylor flag, junior Jonathan Smith forced another cheer from his lungs. Hundreds of fans were hunkered down under raincoats and umbrellas during Taylor's Homecoming football game against No. 8 ranked Robert ...

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New class alleviates internship stress

By Julia Oller | Echo Many students looking for a golden ticket to landing post-grad employment already have it built into their majors. According to a 2014 National Association of Colleges and Employers study, 64.8 percent of interns landed a job offer from their employer. Even though internships ...

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No ring, no worries

By Julia Oller | Echo In The Game of Life, where dream careers are the luck of the draw and mansions come without mortgages, marriage is an inevitable stop along the way. In the real-life version, though, tying the knot isn't as effortless as parking the minivan and adding another miniscule plastic ...

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Swinging into Spring Break

By Julia Oller | Echo When the music slows during the 1950s Spring Swing dance on Saturday, it's not to create a romantic mood straight out of West Side Story. It's to give senior Joel Helms a chance to rest his lips. Helms, the trombonist playing in Big Al and the Jungle Cats tomorrow night, said ...

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Cue the scrunchies, scooters and flannels–the '90s are back.

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Junior Kaitlyn Weaver watches her fifth and sixth grade art students recreate Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream."

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Jaeger and Jordyn will head to New Zealand this summer for a six month YWAM medical missions experience. (Photograph by Shannon Smagala)

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