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Farnsworth selected as student speaker at Commencement
Jack Farnsworth, a graduating senior and four-year member of the rugby team, has been selected to be the student speaker at Commencement this Saturday. A native of Athens, Ga., Farnsworth graduated in December and has...
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Furman graduate Kimberly E. Freeman has been named Lexington 1’s District Teacher of the Year in South Carolina. She was formally recognized at the annual Teacher of the Year Celebration, and will now compete for...
Continue ReadingDolan collects MVP honors
Eric Dolan, a junior center, was named 2013 Most Valuable Player for the Paladins April 23 during the Furman Club Sports Banquet. Dolan, a Ohio native who sat out the fall season, paced the Paladin...
Continue ReadingA campus tradition
Wading into Furman’s picturesque fountains is forbidden. But on this day – the last day of classes – university police look the other way. In what has become a well-watched campus tradition, Furman seniors stride...
Continue ReadingHave teaching award, will travel
A trip to Norway and Finland is in Furman grad Steve Ahn's future. A biology and earth science teacher at Abingdon (Va.) High School, Ahn received the 2013 McGlothlin Award for Teaching at the secondary...
Continue ReadingAuthor defends “fracking”
by Daniel Smith '13, Contributing writer Drilling for oil has been a source of controversy in the United States for decades. During a CLP Tuesday night, Ann McElhinney, director of "FrackNation" and investigative journalist, discussed...
Continue ReadingA recognized commitment to green
Furman is among the schools selected for inclusion in fourth annual addition of The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2013 Edition. Published in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council’s Center for Green Schools,...
Continue ReadingChurch and state and Justice O’Connor
At a legal symposium in Charleston, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said issues dealing with church and state will always be among the toughest the nation's courts deal with and there's no...
Continue ReadingA recognized commitment to green
Furman is among the schools selected for inclusion in fourth annual addition of The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2013 Edition. Published in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council's Center for Green Schools,...
Continue ReadingAn evening of Shakespearean wonder
The Furman Theatre opened its ethereal production of William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” to an appreciative audience last week. Shakespeare’s play, one of his last, is alternately labeled a comedy and a pastoral romance, and...
Continue ReadingJazz Combo recital this Sunday
The Furman University music department will present its spring Jazz Combo recital Sunday, April 21 at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on the Furman campus. The recital is free and open to the public....
Continue ReadingGame changer
Seth Greenstein likes to play games, and that’s a good thing since gaming has been his business since high school. Seth and two of his high school buddies began Diamond Bullet Studios, a video game...
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