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Fiction you don’t have to fear: suggestions for reading in a pandemic
by Sue Sorensen
In this strange time...
Are you tired of hearing phrases like in this strange time? Me too. Still, in this strange time, while looking at stacks of books I've been longing to get at, I can't help but feel conflicted. I'm not surprised at my thorny relationship with reading in a difficult time: I've been here before. One of several difficult reading experiences occurred during chemotherapy two years ago. I had all this time on my hands, but what books could I handle? (I started by reading again all the Narnia books and then the Harry Potter series.)
Children in the classroom
If you had walked into Dr. Janet Brenneman's Early Musical Development course last semester, you might have been surprised at what you would have found: a group of preschoolers.
Brenneman, Associate Professor of Music at CMU, invited children from Assiniboine Castle Daycare to come to her university class for five weeks, so her students could gain hands-on teaching experience.
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Bridging the COVID-19 Study-Gap: CMU’s volunteer tutoring collective goes online to help students finish strong
PAL, or Peer Assisted Learning, is a peer-tutoring program run each year at CMU by a collective of student volunteers. Normally, PAL holds drop-in hours on campus throughout the week, offering fellow students help with homework, essay writing, test prep, study skills, and more. This year, with courses moved suddenly online, students are grappling with new challenges, and PAL is offering new solutions.
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Baritone Nathan Dyck winner of 15th annual Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition
Despite uncertainty and the changing circumstances of campus life under COVID-19, competitors in this year's Verna Mae Janzen Music Competition kept their focus.
Singing to a closed auditorium of adjudicators only instead of the usual community audience, seven finalists gave it their all: Michelle Fast (soprano), Georgeanne Van Helden (piano), Katy Unruh (soprano), Anna Schwartz (piano), Nathan Dyck (baritone), Anne Kelm (piano), and Johanna Klassen (soprano).
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Pilgrimage to Dirk Willems’ Pond: Student visits famed site during Reading Week abroad
"Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off every encumbrance, and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with endurance the race set out for us." Hebrews 12:1
Nathan Dueck is finishing his third year of a four-year interdisciplinary BA, majoring in History of Western Thought. Nathan hopes to attend law school after graduation next year. This February, Nathan spent his Reading Week exploring the Netherlands and UK by bicycle, with his friend and roommate Noah Curle. Dueck says for him, the highlight of the week was a day-pilgrimage to Dirk Willems' Pond, near Utrecht:
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