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JMC Network Newscast – March 6, 2012

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This JMC Network Newscast hosted by Farron Salley highlights the campus-wide theme "Love Your Body Week" and the Chapel forum about eating disorders. Also learn about the new ID's sold in the Depot, the new store replacing Peet's Coffee, about the Black History Production, and this week's spotlight faculty member for Voices on the Hill. Produced ... [Read More…]

Social media outlook grim for future generations

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In the not-too-distant future, new generations may ask us how things became the way they are. Things will be worse, and I am preparing my speech to tell them why. I will tell them about Facebook. Facebook, and a great many other sites, were like a wall - a wall in a big empty room somewhere. One could go to this wall everyday and affix little ... [Read More…]

Love, marriage and the power of the press

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Journalists write for an audience. It's an axiom that guides what we choose to write about, how we report, how we choose our language, when and where we publish. It's an essential part of the profession. And so, reporters and editors, columnists and correspondents fail miserably if they don't – or won't – understand their audience. If they ... [Read More…]

Christians need LGBTQ dialogue

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The debate concerning homosexuality is finally working through the layers of taboo that cover Christian campuses and finding its way into conversation. HU Queer Press caused a stir on Harding's campus last year with an unwelcome website. Last week a group of ACU students and recent alums published an online zine, Voiceless, that addresses the topic ... [Read More…]

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