Author: Molly Arnold
Clubs, cookies and Christmas
Before every meeting, the newly reinstated Westminster Holiday Club recites the Code of the Elves: 1.) Treat every day like Christmas 2.) There’s room for everyone on the nice list 3.) The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.The club then sings its anthem, “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town,” and gets on with the business of the meeting.Holiday Club, originally called Ch...
Three places to volunteer during the holidays
With Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and Christmas coming around the corner, many students are looking for ways to give back to their community. Many places throughout the valley are looking for volunteers. Therefore, students who are looking to help this season have plenty of options, including the Salt Lake City Road Home, Utah Food Bank and events on Westminster’s campus. These establishments a...
Hunger Banquet educates students about hunger globally and locally
Outside the Center of Civic Engagement, students await to participate in this year's Hunger Banquet. In exchange for donations, participants received a piece of paper randomly assigning them to their economic class for the evening—low income, middle income and high income.“We are here today because 2.5 billion people—about one-quarter of the world’s population—live in poverty,” said Mateo Zapata, ...
Goodbye, liberal education courses. Hello, WCore.
Westminster College has taken a whole different approach when it comes to liberal education, and it is activating it in Fall 2016. Westminster will be changing its liberal education (LE) requirements after its last accreditation process to a new curriculum called WCore. The process included a student survey that asked how students felt about the current LE courses, in which most students sai...
Griffins or Spartans? A look into Westminster women’s soccer
Westminster’s women’s soccer team begin their warm up in the locker room with a dance party, followed by the song “We Ready” and chant, “We must protect this ‘bous’ house.” After, they become serious, walk onto the field and begin the game.“Who are we?” Nic Duncan, assistant coach, asks. “GRIFFINS,” the girls yell back, a cheer they took from the movie “300.”
Westminster athletics’ #1 fan
Emilio Giokas has carried a large cooler of Otter Pops, thrown out T-shirts at the job fair and dressed up as an ESPN reporter, all to increase student interest in athletic events. Giokas is president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, captain of the soccer team, president of the Nest (the student-cheering section) and the athletic chair for the Student Activities Commission. “The sports w...
Blue Plate: The greasy food for a drunken stomach
Blue Plate Diner’s eggs and corn-beef hash just might be the perfect cure for a hangover, according to some of its customers.“I work every Sunday and everyone who comes in is just fried from the weekend,” said Melissa Camp, a server at Blue Plate. “It’s hilarious.”She said a student once came in, sat at the bar and, while he was eating, kept falling asleep. “His eyes would roll into the back ...
Westminster students less affected by student debt crisis
With student debt climbing to $1.3 trillion, Westminster administrators have created a way for students to ease their stress when it comes to student loans.Over the past five years, the cost of college tuition has increased more than 28 percent, and the funding for public colleges has fallen by an inflation-adjusted 0.8 percent, according to the State Higher Education Executive Officers Associatio...