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The end in sight -“Get ye-to-a nunnery” er, I mean high school

I am not as old as I was when I came to Western 2 1/2 yers ago.
 Seriously.
 I’d been laid off my job and discovered a lovely state program that helps ‘displaced workers’ get new skills to get back out into the workforce.
 It didn’t matter that I already had a degree, it just wasn’t worth much.

Wiccans ‘Halloween’ more than just trick-or-treating

‘Anna’ walks the halls like everyone else at Western. She gets to class on time, does her homework, wants to major in something that will let her be creative.
She sits daily among conservative classmates  who routinely wear a standard Christian Cross around their necks. Only the sharpest of eyes will spot the pentacle around her [...]

From Nontraditional to New Traditional pretty please

As I am writing my first ‘official’ staff column in several years, tornado warning sirens are going off.
Please tell me that’s not a bad omen.
But a deadline is a deadline, so here I sit.