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Senior Goodbye Column: You can do a whole lot in only four years
Katie Frame | January 25Senior Katie Frame prepares her goodbyes to her peers and mentors as graduation approaches.
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Loopholes in Greek Life recruitment leave some PNMs vulnerable
Katie Frame | September 17As fall recruitment winds down, members of Greek Life find themselves reflecting on what went right, what went wrong, and what just simply did not happen. For some chapters and potential new members (PNMs) alike, the topic of "dirty rushing" and "suicide rushing" are hot on everyone’s minds. First, ...
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Freshmen students turned away from Greek Life due to high school GPA
Katie Frame | September 1Some Otterbein freshmen are finding themselves unable to join Greek Life due to their high school GPA. Students in Greek Life are required to keep a 2.75 GPA in order to remain active in their chapters. Most chapters have a designated position (sometimes referred to as a ‘Scholarship Chair’) or ...
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Otterbein hopeful that faculty-led study abroad courses will resume in 2022
Katie Frame | August 16After all study abroad had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Otterbein is hopeful to begin sending large groups of students abroad again in May 2022. The most popular way for Cardinals to study abroad is through faculty-led May term courses. The preparations for the May 2020 courses ...
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Otterbein announces layoffs of two tenured faculty
Katie Frame | March 10Two tenured Otterbein faculty members will be laid off after the 21-22 academic year, a move that faculty leaders say is a violation of tenure. President John Comerford said in a March 9 email that two tenured faculty positions would be eliminated after the 21-22 academic year. Physics professor ...
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After months of hard work, Otterbein’s dance concert will be streamed virtually
Katie Frame and Julia Kelley | November 17Otterbein Theatre’s student costume designers continue to be the unsung heroes of the theater department. The theater department debuts their annual dance concert virtually on Thursday, Nov. 19 at 7:30 p.m. The show, The Wild Within, is based off the book “Where the Wild Things Are” by ...
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Otterbein’s seventh sorority was lost to history
Katie Frame | October 22While today six sororities are dotted around Otterbein’s campus, 40 years ago there was a seventh sorority that was in play. Rho Kappa Delta, or Arcady as they were referred to around campus, was founded in 1917, the same year Otterbein University became Otterbein College. Greek Life ...
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Otterbein Greek life receives a refund on their spring dues
Katie Frame and Jarod White | October 7Otterbein’s Greek Life plans to refund chapters their dues from the spring 2020 semester. After students were sent home last spring, Greek Life on campus was put to a halt. Students were sent home from Greek houses, and every Greek event was cancelled, including Greek Week which was scheduled to start ...
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RAs don't see pay raise despite extra work due to COVID-19 pandemic
Katie Frame | September 15Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Resident Assistants on campus are being asked to do more than their original job description, but they haven’t seen a raise in their pay. It was expected that coming back to campus during a pandemic would have its challenges. Otterbein has seen a lot of changes ...
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Editor's Blog: Farewell for now
Katie Frame | May 1As of today, T&C Media is wrapping up our not-so-normal spring semester. For a first semester as editor-in-chief, I never expected it to go this direction. However, both the beginning of the semester in the Communications Building and the end where we all went our separate ways thoroughly ...
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