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The Difference between Dead and Alive
See the contest announcement at Pepperdine University’s website. I remember the scaffold and the unfinished wood that formed its structure. Jesus stood there weeping, bloodied on his body and on his once white robe. He looked upward, to heaven or to the happy spring sun I had dreamt above him. I wonder what my mom was ...
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Eve’s big exit
See the contest announcement at Pepperdine University’s website. When Adam told Eve, “There’s an ugly in you,” she threw down her half-eaten pomegranate, grabbed her snakeskin suitcase, and stuffed inside every shade of fig leaf from her side of the garden. Eve danced out of Adam’s sight, swinging her hips and hair. Without stopping once, ...
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‘College is what you make of it’
This was my “farewell editorial” with The Sojourn. Tradition has all graduating managing editors and editors-in-chief write one of these. These farewell editorials are supposed to be, I think, a platform for sappiness. Here I am, a senior, graduating in just a few weeks, with several underclassmen to take positions that I used to hold: ...
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Media students win state awards
Indiana Wesleyan University media communication students won 10 awards from the Indiana Association of School Broadcasters last month – the highest number of awards ever brought home by IWU media students. The students won for both TV and radio pieces, and came in second overall in the TV category. Matt Green (alumnus ‘11) received first ...
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WIWU incurs fine
Earlier this month, the Federal Communications Commission fined Indiana Wesleyan University’s TV station, WIWU-TV51, $13,000 for failing to meet the records requirements for informational and educational children’s programming. The FCC states that all low-frequency Class A stations, like WIWU, must play a certain amount of children’s programming on the station. WIWU played the children’s programming ...
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Honoring Cameron: 2012 World Changer inducted
Wednesday morning, Indiana Wesleyan University President Henry Smith inducted into the Society of World Changers its 10th member, actor Kirk Cameron. The convocation began at 10 a.m. with Smith introducing Cameron and briefly stating why the committee chose him as this year’s nominee: “We honor Kirk Cameron – who through his career as an actor, ...
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My New Aunt Cheryl
Introducing Cheryl, part II On Thanksgiving the year Obama was elected president, I first met my new aunt Cheryl. I remember that Thanksgiving more than any other, mainly because of the political debate I found myself in, but also because of our new family member. My sister Sam got in a fight with our cousin ...
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Evolution
Said the broccoli-breath, dinosaur-of-a-kid: “I’ve evolved far more than you.” He forked slabs of corned beef, his pimply face writhing with each chew. The bell rang and the dinosaur didn’t move. “It’s a free country,” he said and belched. On the playground he refused to swing on the monkey bars. “Primates are despicable.” He sat ...
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Celebrating Seder
After celebrating my first Seder with my friends and coworkers Rachel Pyle (sr) and Molly Meyer (sr), I learned that I don’t know how to do tradition well. What was me trying to observe a Jewish holiday, turned into an unintentional mockery – not of the tradition, but of my attempts at the tradition. The ...
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Hello, My Name Is…
Web Extra: The April issue introduced some famously monikered locals. Meet six more here. Jamie Fox(x) Actor/singer/comedian — Event coordinator at WFYI Fox says she has to be careful when making reservations, especially when traveling, so she’s not roomed with someone expecting her to be a man. But those who meet her face to face ...