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Celebrating Artwork

The Big Rapids Festival of the Arts is in full swing

by Christa Cwiek, Copy Editor Published: Feb 3, 2010

Sand Sculpture: This sand sculp­ture, cre­ated by “Big Wave” Dave Downs from New Haven, will be on dis­play at the Big Rapids City Hall until the fes­ti­val ends Feb. 28th. Photo By: Kate Dupon | Photographer

The 2010 Festival of the Arts is dis­play­ing local art rang­ing from high school choirs to wildlife photography.

This month-long event kicked off on Jan. 28 with the Festival of the Arts Opening Reception. The fes­ti­val fea­tures 77 vary­ing events in 32 days.

Bruce Dilg, chair­man of the Festival of the Arts exec­u­tive com­mit­tee and FSU pro­fes­sor of archi­tec­ture, said the event was ini­tially started 50 years ago to cel­e­brate the 75th anniver­sary of Ferris State University. The event con­tin­ued until the early ‘90s. (more…)

 
 

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Better Than Average Is Best

Intellectualism should be prized in our leaders, not seen as a flaw

by Dan Hamilton, News Editor Published: Feb 3, 2010

In the midst of the com­men­tary sur­round­ing President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, his style of gov­ern­ing has been ana­lyzed almost as much as his pol­icy decisions.

Jacob Weisberg, a colum­nist for Slate​.com, recently wrote an arti­cle argu­ing that Obama’s calm and ana­lyt­i­cal per­sona is a pri­mary rea­son for the decline in pub­lic sup­port for him and his party. I find this point both inter­est­ing and depressing.

“The way Obama con­nects to peo­ple is the oppo­site of a Clinton, a Bush, or a Ronald Reagan. Those pres­i­dents were all relaters. They bonded with peo­ple based on com­mon feel­ings, expe­ri­ences, and interests…His [Obama’s] rela­tion­ship with the world is pri­mar­ily ratio­nal and ana­lyt­i­cal rather than intu­itive or emo­tional,” said Weisberg. (more…)