2008 Woodie Awards
View this section's front page!Two weeks ago, 13 students from Slippery Rock University attended Powershift 07. It was the first national youth summit on climate change. It was held on the University of Maryland campus in Washington. It was there that roughly 6,000 students learned how to be proactive on their campuses in regards to effecting change.
After Buffy Sainte-Marie's lecture in the MPR last week, a student off-handedly said, "I liked that old make-love-not-war stuff." It was an innocent and supportive comment about the event, but an inaccurate depiction of her presentation. Her analyses are not dated and her talk was not about war, but specifically about Native American education and generally about encouraging students everywhere to live up to their dreams and possibilities.
Disability sport is still sport. Although this phrase seems obvious in its simplicity, it needs to be restated after seeing the coverage of the fifth-annual Steel City Slam relegated to the Focus section of the Nov. 16 issue of The Rocket. As a community programs for Americans with disabilities major with an adapted physical activity minor, I have studied the everyday issues that people with disabilities face.
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