2008 Woodie Awards
The Outdoors Club has been a growing presence on campus, in both membership and scope of activities. The sheer size of the club is unclear, because students pick and choose events they wish to be involved in, however, there are about fifty people on their mailing list, as well the additional friends of members that join in trips from time to time via word of mouth.
The harvest season is upon us again, and as students prepare to journey home, we have several opportunities to incorporate sustainability into our travels. First off, unplugging electronics before leaving Wheaton is essential, and probably mandatory for on-campus residents.
Most of my memories relate to food. The streets of Beijing are overflowing with restaurants serving anything that you would ever want: Dumplings freshly steamed in bamboo steamers from the barbeque, lamb with spices from the northwestern province of Xinjiang and the twenty-four hour noodle shops that I frequented are among my favorites.
Claudia Fox Tree sang a traditional Native American song to begin her lecture, "Hyper invisibility and extreme invisibility: The Native American Experience," that took place on Nov. 11. The River Song, goes something like this: "Wishi ta, do ya, do ya, do ya, wishi ta, do ya, do ya hay.
We started doing it before we even knew what it was. We were doing it before we were born. As we grew up we started realizing, "Hey, this actually feels pretty good" and continued to do it, even began planning times to do it. It's so private that the vast majority of us don't talk about it to anyone; some of us don't even admit it to ourselves.