Page 10 - Spring Term News Today

The publishing cycle for The Lawrentian is coming to a close. As this is our last publication this term, we wanted to take a moment to say goodbye to some outgoing staff and let them share a little about their time working with the paper. We will be back second week of Spring Term with some new staff coming on board and we hope you will stick around! Dannielle Konz Outgoing Editor-in-Chief If anyone were to ask me what the most impactful part of my college experience was, I would answer The L...

Photo by Tally Broderick The Hannon Library has started to let students check out keys to study rooms. The Siskiyou had an opportunity to speak with Mallory Wilkerson who is the Promotion, Communication, & Design Assistant Where do you check out a study room, and is there a cost associated? To check out a key to a study room, SOU students, faculty, and staff can visit the Tech Help Desk on the first floor of Hannon Library whenever the library is open. To prioritize our campus community’s saf...

Maryland-College Park Announces Weeklong Sequester The University of Maryland's main campus in College Park on Saturday announced that all on-campus students would sequester in place for at least a week and that all instruction would move online beginning Monday. University officials cited a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases: Maryland's pandemic dashboard shows a total of 74 cases

February 6, 2021 A SHAW staffer and a student outside the Charles Benson Bear recreational center, where students and staff at Grinnell go for weekly testing. Photo by Kaya Matsuura. By Nina Baker bakernin@grinnell.edu After one student on first-year Joey Fisk’s floor in Norris Hall tested positive for COVID-19, none of his direct neighbors were notified by SHAW to isolate until hours later. By the end of the night, half the floor had been ordered to self-isolate or to move to quarantine hous...

UMass Issues Stay-at-Home Order for 2 Weeks Feb. 8, 6:24 a.m. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst ordered all students to "self-sequester" for two weeks. "Self-sequestration means that students must stay in their residences, both on and off campus, except to get meals, undergo twice-weekly COVID testing, or to attend medical appointments. In addition, to minimize

Michigan Community College Cancels Sports Seasons Kellogg Community College, in Michigan, on Wednesday became the fifth two-year college in the state to cease competition in several sports, given the impact of COVID-19 in its region. The college announced that it would opt out of league competition in men's and women's basketball and volleyball, joining several peers that have

2020 saw two books by Survey team members appear in print. The Oxford handbook of English grammar, edited by Bas Aarts, Jill Bowie and Gergana Popova, provides a wide-ranging and authoritative critical survey of current knowledge of the grammar of the English language, and competing research methodologies that may be applied to it. Sean Wallis’s monograph Statistics in Corpus Linguistics...

Richmond, Charleston Warn About Parties Jan. 25, 6:15 a.m. The University of Richmond and the College of Charleston are warning students about the dangers of parties. The University of Richmond sent students a letter Friday that said students were endangering in-person learning, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. University officials said they were aware of two parties in

            While  The Lawrentian is always hiring new writers, artists, and photographers, right now we’re also looking to hire people for our upcoming news cycle! We are currently accepting applications for the following positions: Editor in Chief, Managing Editor, Arts & Entertainment Section Editor, and Photo Editor.             No previous experience is required, and all students who will be enrolled at Lawrence next year are eligible to apply. Our news cycle ru...

Credits: Image courtesy of the MIT Undergraduate Association. Caption: The Banana Bunch Team, winner of Track 1, proposed several trails on campus with signposts acting as conversation starters. The trails will encourage students to explore new areas of campus and encourage socialization in a Covid-safe way. Caption: The Track 2 winning team, OK GOOGLE, proposed Beavers Incognito, a weekend-long soci...