By Wren Haynes | Echo There's nothing quiet about the impression Silent Night makes on prospective students. Picture this: Two thousand screaming college kids in footie pajamas and superhero costumes. And you don't know a single one of them. Senior Hannah Guske arrived just in time to witness the game ...
By Wren Haynes | Echo It's that time of year again, when styrofoam sharks patrol campus and student entrepreneurs pursue their dreams. Last night, seven teams of students presented their business proposals to a panel of judges at Promising Venture's second annual Shark Tank. At the end of the night, ...
By Wren Haynes | Echo Some of us spent this past summer in internships, at camps or hanging out at home with friends. But for several Taylor students, this summer was an opportunity to perform in-depth research on early childhood education in Grant County. Last night, seniors Charlie Richert, Lauren ...
By Gracie Fairfax and Wren Haynes | Echo New home. New adventure. New responsibilities. Change runs rampant on college campuses, and it is something Bergwall's new hall director, Kate Austin, knows well. As students moved into new rooms and unpacked boxes this August, she was downstairs doing the same ...
By Wren Haynes | Echo It's 4:45 on a Tuesday afternoon, and six silver Taylor vans are parked outside the Dining Commons. Fifteen minutes before dinner starts for the rest of campus, conversation buzzes and silverware clinks downstairs. Taylor students in matching shirts eat quickly before piling into ...
By Wren Haynes | Contributor Kick off your Sunday shoes and head to the KSAC. As of this year, Taylor has a new student group in the works-a swing dancing club. Junior Daniel Ford first had the idea last spring, when he saw an email about registering new clubs. "I enjoy swing dancing; there's other ...
Wren Haynes | Echo When the going gets tough, the social media gets melodramatic. At least, that seems to be Taylor's ongoing tradition when it comes to power outages, TUCAN glitches, the 2014 Snowpocalypse-and, last but not least, the Drought of 2015. After a water main broke in Upland last Thursday, ...
By Wren Haynes | Contributor Move over, class of 2016. For three years you were the largest freshman class in Taylor's history-but now you've been eclipsed by the class of 2019. According to the Registrar's Office, 519 new freshmen and 40 transfer students arrived on Welcome Weekend from across the ...
Wren Haynes | Echo When my last class ends at 1:52 next Friday, I'll race back to Swallow, lock my door and catch a getaway car. I would roll down the windows and scream "Freedom!" to the skies-but if I do that, I might lose the syllabus bookmarking my literature anthology. Sneaky textbooks. They follow ...
By Wren Haynes | Echo Emma Brown Yankuba is not the news story of Ebola. Her voice is low and soothing, soft-spoken and rhythmic. The recording is from October 2014 when I requested that my friend at university in Kampala, Uganda, interview a Liberian student on my behalf. "(Ebola) brings great fear," ...
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