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FSCC iPad Technology

Kevin Gray   When people think of the iPad, they seldom think about a multitude of classroom uses. Or library uses. Or museum uses. Most people think iPads, and they immediately see individuals in coffee shops hunched over or leaning back in a relaxed fashion reading.   But picture a small scale technology easily used [...]

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The End of the Journal

By Jeremy Gulley Thomas Merton, the 20th Century philosopher, theologian, and Trappist Monk, wrote that “the beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.” He went on to say [...]

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FSCC iPad Technology

By Kevin Gray When people think of the iPad, they seldom think about a multitude of classroom uses. Most people think iPads, and they immediately see individuals in coffee shops hunched over or leaning back in a relaxed fashion reading. But picture a small scale technology easily used for preparing presentations in class or for [...]

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Elmwood Cemetery Walking Tour

By Kevin Gray If looking for a unique, educational and enlightening day-trip, the Elmwood Cemetery, established in 1872 in Kansas City, Missouri, brings to mind familiar names, like Armour (Armour Boulevard), Loose (Loose Park), Atkins (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art) and Meyer (Meyer Boulevard) amidst ever-changing headstones, mausoleums, and monuments. As well as a living, breathing [...]

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Last Place

by Beth Gulley   Volunteers had already started cleaning up when my son, Israel, finished swimming the 800 meter freestyle last Friday night. By most people’s standards last place is a terrible spot to end up, but Israel took four minutes off of his previous time. In fact, if there was a prize for the [...]

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Shufflebarger passing

Arthur Shufflebarger passed away Monday, June 11, in Milford, Michigan. Arthur graduated from KSU in 1974, received his first master’s degree from KU in 1983 in Environmental Health Science, and a second master’s degree from KU in 1990 in Public Administration. Arthur was the city manager of Osawatomie, KS, for almost six years, beginning his [...]

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Arthur Shufflebarger Passing

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Kevin Gray   On a trip to Wichita last Friday with Diane’s parents to spend the day visiting family, the mother-daughter conversation had covered the “what’s going on “ norm on the drive from Atchison, but nearing Nortonville, Diane’s mom asked, “Have you heard? Arthur Shufflebarger died. He was 60.”   The minute I heard [...]

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Thank You

by Beth Gulley A few days after Mother’s Day, I got a card in the mail. It was a thank you note from my mom for the steak dinner we made her on Mother’s Day. It occurred to me that my mom and my friend Amanda are good at writing thank you notes to people, [...]

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Touchstones

by Beth Gulley This week I am preparing to return to school for the summer term. As I have anxiously thought about meeting 50 new people, I have been reflecting on the 10 touchstones from Formation, an educational philosophy advanced by Parker Palmer. The touchstones have helped calm my fears, and helped me to think [...]

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Too Late for Satellites — Cassiopeia

Too Late for Satellites — Cassiopeia

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