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Student loans from Key Bank are the latest casualties in economic crisis |
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Written by Marcy Misner
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
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College students are beginning to feel the effects of this country’s economic downturn as some seek to get student loans to continue their education, only to find at least one bank no longer lending to students. As Stephanie Rice, a junior studying sociology at Lake Superior State University, found out recently she’ll no longer be able to get her alternative student loans through Key Bank. As of October 31, Key Bank is pulling out of student lending altogether. Rice said she has her tuition needs covered for this year, but next year will have to find another way to make up for the loan amount she received from Key Bank.  Be first to comment this article |  Add as favourites (0)
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Happy Hopheads Club Offers Place for Home Brewing |
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Written by Michael Stoiko
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
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The Happy Hopheads club is a brand new club in Sault Saint Marie, started by Carl Shopp, a Manufacturing Engineer in his senior year. The club had its first meeting On Thursday the 9th. The club membership is just starting out at 5, but Carl is hopeful for rapid expansion. Right now the club’s main focus is teaching people to brew. Carl is attempting to teach as many people to brew as possible to get the club’s knowledge base up before he graduates. He started the club because, as he put it, “its never been done here in the Soo before. No one’s ever had a class or seminar or anything on teaching people to brew anything.” Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (0) |
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Ray Kamalay Performs and Speaks on Freedom |
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Written by Kayla Robertson
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
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As part of the 8th annual Superior Festival, Ray Kamalay showed off not only his jazz guitar and vocal skills, but also his impressive ability to give an astounding and intellectual lecture on slavery and music. On Thursday, Kamalay kicked off the festival with a lecture titled “Freedom, Slavery, and the Roots of American Music”. Armed with an arsenal of information and some valuable handouts, Kamalay lectured the audience of students and faculty (visiting and local) about the origins of slavery, the lives of slaves and the histories of many nations that once had (or still have) slaves. He grabbed the attention of many students in his speech about the history of Haiti, teaching them about the rich history of Haiti’s revolution. He then focused on slavery in America and talked about a new type of slavery. While more humane in the sense that slaves were treated more kindly (allowed to reproduce, fed), in another sense they were ripped from their families. This spawned the use of “black-face” humor and eventually the popularity of the African American spiritual. Beginning in Britain as a way to mock Americans, shows like “The Unfortunate Negro” popped up. While tragic works worked in black-face in the United Kingdom, performers quickly found that they only place for black-face performances was in comedy. Eventually, some whites learned spirituals from the slaves and took them to minstrel shows which became hugely popular in the United States. Later, these shows became too crude for families and spawned vaudeville shows. Kamalay was forced to cut his lecture a bit short due to time constraints, but he summed it up by telling students that, in his opinion, you can’t separate blues from spirituals because both expose and express the feelings of those who feel alienated. Kamalay showed students the links between the music of today with the history of not only the United States, but most of the world. Be first to comment this article | Add as favourites (0) |
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