Renee Urbanc and Jaimee Mackey are intern­ing at a place where they don’t do any work.

Both Urbanc and Mackey applied for intern­ships at CMT in Nashville, for the spring 2010 semes­ter, and both received posi­tions. Urbanc works in the Music Strategy Department and Mackey works in the Production Management Department.

The rea­son nei­ther of these two does any work is because they don’t look at this intern­ship as work, they look at it as some­thing they love. It’s an unpaid intern­ship, but they don’t mind. (more…)

With Internet use increas­ing over the past ten years, some Web sites have emerged as fron­trun­ners among col­lege students.

According to Internetworldstats​.com, the United Sates has seen an increase in Internet use of 138.8 per­cent between 2000 and 2009, with 220.1 mil­lion users. That’s equal to 74.1 per­cent of the pop­u­la­tion using the Internet. (more…)

Guest speak­ers and artists Miriam Brysk and Helen Degen Cohen have some­thing in com­mon with my grand­mother; all of these women are Polish sur­vivors of the Holocaust.

On Feb. 24, Cohen pre­sented her Holocaust-themed poetry and Brysk pre­sented her art­work on the same topic. Listening to the women talk about the Nazis invad­ing Poland made me cry silently and reminded me of sto­ries my grand­mother has told me about her own expe­ri­ence dur­ing World War II. (more…)

Campus Fun

March 4

Blood and Politics: Leonard Zeskind Lecture, 7 p.m., Williams Auditorium

Rudy Currence (Coffee Night), 7 — 8 p.m., Rankin Student Center Dome Room

Off Campus

March 4

Book Signing: Blood and Politics by Leonard Zeskind, 4 — 5 p.m., Great Lakes Book and Supply n

Helen Degen Cohen, Miriam Brysk and John Guzlowski’s lives became inter­twined after the Holocaust through artis­tic expression.

These three sur­vivors of the Holocaust are part of a series of events begin­ning tonight to dis­cuss art in rela­tion with their expe­ri­ences dur­ing the Holocaust.

Holocaust Art: A Panel Discussion of Art, Literature, and Music is the event that brings these three artists to Big Rapids as a part of the “Art in the Holocaust” series in the Festival of Arts. The panel will talk about the inter­ac­tion between art and the Holocaust and allow the audi­ence to ask ques­tions through­out. (more…)

The cast of the Vagina Monologues is ready to put on a show that has more mean­ing to them than just hav­ing fun.

The show is a story about women who deal with prob­lems relat­ing to wom­an­hood and how to pro­mote aware­ness to help rem­edy these issues.

For Pam Kurylowicz, a junior in the psy­chol­ogy pro­gram and a mem­ber of the cast, being a woman means con­quer­ing the world. (more…)

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Campus Fun

Feb. 24–27

The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, 11 a.m. — 4 p.m., Rankin Art Gallery

Feb. 24

Holocaust Art: A Panel Discussion of Art, Literature and Music, 7 p.m., IRC 120 (more…)

Spring break is fast approach­ing and stu­dents are decid­ing if and where they will be head­ing for vacation.

Students’ selec­tions can be deter­mined based on whether they want and then decide if they want to drive, fly, or take a train to that des­ti­na­tion. But, that’s only part of the trip as there are many options for shel­ter such as a hotel, resort, or beach house. All for a price, of course.

Deb Wright, intern at Time Two Travel LLC in Big Rapids, said, “Students who come to us usu­ally have a set price range and we try to work some­thing out accord­ing to that num­ber.” (more…)

Madcat, Kane, and Maxwell Street boasts bluesy per­for­mance for Ferris fans.

Playing mostly blues music, they main­tained high energy dur­ing the show on Feb. 13. (more…)