Author: Vanessa Eveleth
Climate change, education system are priorities for young adults, according to Forum survey
Dealing with climate change and improving education dominate legislature concerns for students at Westminster College, according to a recent survey conducted through a Google Form by The Forum*. The Forum survey results aligned with results from a January Pew Research Center study where respondents were asked to select what should be the president and Congress’s top priority to address this year.&...
Diverse Book Fair spreads awareness with free, accessible books
The Student Diversity and Inclusion Center hosted the Diverse Book Fair with books the center’s coordinators said encompassed their programs, and offered the selections to the Westminster College community for free, in Richer Commons Tuesday. The Diverse Book Fair was an opportunity for the diverse SDIC programs to engage the Westminster community with books that speak to students’ various identit...
Westminster community works together at Emigration Creek during Earth Day Clean-up
The Dumke Center for Civic Engagement and the Environmental Center jointly organized a Earth Day clean-up project, which provided 15–20 students with buckets, gloves and bags as they picked up trash last Wednesday around Emigration Creek at Westminster College. The Dumke Center handles service opportunities on campus and has wanted to organize an Earth Day project for a couple years, according to ...
Westminster artists curate Senior Art Exhibit
The air crackles with energy that can only be produced by the culmination of four years of creative work. Family, professors and peers amble between the temporary walls presenting an array of charcoal and pastel drawings, sculpted ceramics and printed imagery. Some wanderers hold a plate of cheeses and chocolate from the elegant charcuterie boards nestled on the corner table. Every year, the stud...
AmeriCorps VISTA leader serves the Westminster community through The Purple Basket
AmeriCorps VISTA leader Nayethzi Hernandez has served the Westminster College community through The Purple Basket since the start of the 2020–21 school year. “The Purple Basket aims to basically meet students’ needs at Westminster,” said Fatima Santos, a senior justice studies major and student worker at The Purple Basket. Although The Purple Basket is a campus resource for students, ...
ASW strategizes to increase interest in student government positions
Campaigning for the ASW 2022–23 election began Feb. 23 after ASW members strategized to increase interest for students to take up candidate positions. “For ASW, I think a government that is stagnant is doing less of its job,” said Brynlie Green Morris, current speaker of the senate, presidential candidate and junior justice studies major, in the candidate debate held over Microsoft Teams Feb. 24.&...
Women’s soccer team balances academic success and student life
More than half of the Westminster College women’s soccer team were named to the Rocky Mountain Athletics Conference All-Academic Honor Roll for the 2021 Fall semester, according to a Westminster College Athletics news release. RMAC All-Academic Honor Roll is recognition of student-athletes’ dedication to their academics while also competing in collegiate sports, according to the RMAC Manual....