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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day outside Cotuit Library is taking the party outside for a “Go Green! St. Patrick's Family Fun Day.”  Activities include a patio performance by the local Kanaley School of Irish Dance; walking a Leprechaun Trail to find treasure at the end of the rainbow; a Lucky Gold Coin Hunt; planting Pot O' Lucky Shamrocks; and learning to tie a Celtic heart knot. When: 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday Where: Cotuit Library, 871 Main St. Admission: Free SATURDAY, MARCH 13, AND SUNDAY, MARCH 14 Art explores a year of confinement Artists Traci Harmon-Hay, Megan Hinton and Susan...

Caitlyn Woitena Thursday, March 4th, 2021 On Monday, February 22nd, the WKU English Department presented Global Learning through Global Literature in collaboration with the Global Learning Forum hosted by WKU’s Office of Study Abroad and International Learning. Led by Dr. Ted Hovet, two current undergraduate English students and a graduate assistant shared presentations focused on comparing and contrasting western culture with the cultures found in global literature.  Dr. Hovet explained, “The goal of this forum [was] to put literary works into conversation with one another to see how th...

Tunji Olaopa We live in a VUCA world—vulnerable, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. And it takes little reflection for anyone to see how this is immediately so. While the idea of a VUCA world was introduced into the lexicon by reflection on strategy and leadership, the COVID-19 pandemic has added an aggravated dimension to how vulnerable, uncertain, complex and ambiguous the world is. Everything that constitutes axioms that define our normality has been upturned and shattered. Each region of the world is then left to come to terms with the uncertainty and to address it in its own way. While ...

February 23, 2021 On this day in Hip Hop history, The Roots released their fourth studio album Things Fall Apart. This project is considered by many publications at the Roots “breakthrough” album, gaining them coverage in major publications and expanding their fan base. It also came at a time when the whole Soulquarian collective (D’Angelo, Erykah Badu, Common, The Roots, Talib Kweli, Most Def, and J Dilla) began to come out the gate with hit album after hit album (some titles including Mama’s Gun, Voodoo). This album was the group’s first project to sell 500,000 copies. The alb...

23 February 2021Politics In August 2020, seven West Papuan political prisoners, held in Jakarta for protesting outside the Indonesian Presidential Palace, were released early following an international campaign. They received a rapturous reception on their return. Thousands gathered to greet them – a demonstration of the widespread opposition to Indonesian rule in this province on the island of New Guinea. A year earlier, hundreds of thousands marched, rioted and burned down state buildings across the country during a month-long uprising. Emboldened by this resistance, in December the large...