W hosts launch party for published professor

Liz Bosarge

Senior Reporter

The W celebrated the publishing of “Barrier Island Suite” by Dr. Kendall Dunkelberg with a launch party and reception at the Puckett House on March 29.

Dunkelberg serves as the director of Creative Writing, the director of the Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium and a professor of English at The W. “Barrier Island Suite: Poems Inspired by The Life and Art of Walter Inglis Anderson” is the third book of poetry written by Dunkelberg, who said he was inspired by a reading of Anderson’s bibliography at the Eudora Welty Symposium in 2002. 

Spectator Editor to attend White House College Reporter Day

Columbus, Miss. - Jessica Barnett, editor of MUW’s campus newspaper, The Spectator, will be attending White House College Reporter Day on April 28.

Student reporters from dozens of campuses across the country were selected to participate in the first-ever White House College Reporter Day. Participants are scheduled to attend a news briefing with White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest in the White House Press Briefing Room, discuss campus-related issues with senior administration officials and meet members of the White House Press Corps. 

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Vagina Monologues returns to The W campus

Liz Bosarge

Senior Reporter

The MUW Student Life Center and National Organization for Women present “The Vagina Monologues” on April 5-7 in the Cochran ballroom at 7 p.m.

Performers will read and act out over a dozen stories of women from Eve Ensler’s award-winning play about the struggles of women around the world. The play is based on true stories about real women and the issues they face. The goal is to tackle serious issues and actual events in a way that is comedic and makes them easier to discuss.

Students learn what it means to be a director

Lauren Trimm

Reporter

The W’s Theatre Department will present a series of student-directed scenes on April 10, 11 and 12 at 7 p.m. in Cromwell.

Directors include Karen Thead, Katie Welch, Candice Monteith, Kevin Barkman, Saudai Jackson, Graham Young and Jonathan Best. The scenes are a way to get students involved and count as a final grade for students in William “Peppy” Biddy’s directing class at The W.

Preparing for the storm with WCBI's weather team

Ryan Savage

Reporter

Five.  The clicking of keyboards, telephones ringing and people yelling to each other down a long corridor fill the air.  A low roar emits from fans of different computer towers and boards and travels over a group of people rushing around like ants trying to get to different places in the small room full of TV screens and processors.  A man yells down the corridor from the lobby about whether or not certain papers were missing.  No one in the room answers. They are on a mission.

Four.  Papers rustle in hands as people shuffle around and finally get situated in their squeaky rolling chairs. The heavy sound of someone’s boots rushes down the corridor leading to the small room. A woman looks up from her papers, peers down the hallway and then gets up and closes the door. She makes her way back to her chair and puts on a headset. By this point, everyone in the room has on their headsets.

Spectator Sound-Off: What inspired you to become an educator?

Trisha Boone

Campus Reporter

Homecoming is an important weekend and a great time to focus on the many alumni who have spent time on our campus. However, there would be no alumni without educators, which is why we set out to ask professors what motivated them to choose this profession.

Q: What inspired you to become an educator?