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15Mar By trevechoesonlineNo Comments
Campus News

Trevecca to host leadership conference

By Shadaye Hunnicutt The top student leaders of all the Nazarene colleges will be on campus next month for an annual meeting. More than 100 visitors will spend the week of April 8th eating, hanging out and sharing rooms with Trevecca students as part of the Nazarene Student Leadership Conference. Since the first NSLC at Olivet Nazarene University in 1964, each group of executive student officers from the nine Nazarene universities come together for a leadership conference every spring. This year’s conference is April 8th - 11th, the theme will be ‘Amplify’. (more…)
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4Mar By trevechoesonlineNo Comments
Campus News, Events

First spelling bee causes buzz at Trevecca

By Katie Schimmelpfennig Heather Millington has $25 to spend on iTunes after being crowned Trevecca Nazarene University’s first spelling bee champion.  Millington, a junior commercial music major, won the spelling bee after out spelling 11 other contestants with the word “entrepreneur” at the hour-long competition held in Tarter Student Activity Center on Tuesday, February 9, 2010.  (more…)
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4Mar By trevechoesonlineNo Comments
Features

Top 10 things to do over spring break

By Amy Taylor It’s spring break, and you’re stuck in Nashville. Well, stuck isn’t exactly the best word. So what if you’re not able to make it home during this week of no classes? Nashville is an overflowing gauntlet of places to go and people to meet. There is always something to do. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by all the potential choices to be made, here are ten of the best to get you started. Whatever you do, don’t just sit there. Go. (more…)
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4Mar By trevechoesonlineNo Comments
Campus News

Marketing made emergency move

By Rachel Swann Jan Greathouse, Director of University Communication and her staff were told at noon Feb. 11 to start packing and in four days they were surrounded by boxes, empty filing cabinets, and cleared bookshelves ready for the movers. The Office of External Relations and Marketing is camping out on the main floor of the Adams Administration Building until Apr. 1 when university administrators make decisions about where the department will be located until their move to a permanent location. The offices made an emergency move on Feb. 16 after engineering inspectors deemed the third floor, where they were, structurally unstable. (more…)
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18Feb By trevechoesonline7 Comments
Campus News, Faculty

Blog blasts Trevecca, Boone

By Morgan Daniels A group of Nazarenes who say they are worried the Nazarene universities are part of the reason the Nazarene church has been led astray, have launched a website to publicly question the universities’ teachings and leadership. The group, called the Concerned Nazarenes, has written around 85 posts during the past year opposing and criticizing many teachings in the Nazarene Church, and more specifically, teachings at Trevecca Nazarene University. For more than a year, this group has attacked Trevecca Nazarene University, criticizing practices such as the use of the word “labyrinth” when describing a prayer room, and Trevecca’s Spiritual Formation Retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani, a Catholic monastery. (more…)
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18Feb By trevechoesonlineNo Comments
Campus News

President’s cabinet accounts for student requests in budget plans

By Rachel Swann New windows and bathrooms in dorms, recycling on campus, bike racks and ice machines are among the improvements Trevecca students want on campus. According to a survey conducted by student development, students on campus have lots of ideas for how administrators could spend the estimated $500,000 they have to spend in the annual special requests budget. (more…)
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18Feb By trevechoesonlineNo Comments
Campus News, Events, Mental Health

Counseling and resident hall directors fire up womens chats

By Shadaye Hunnicutt Sex, non-committal make outs and how to be happy as a single person are among the topics Trevecca women have a chance to ask questions about on a regular basis this year. Fireside Chats, a new program this year, was designed to give female students  a safe place to get advice and ask questions about relationship issues they face as college students. Designed by Amanda Daly, director of  Counseling Services, and women’s RD’s, the series focuses on issues that Daly and the RD’s hear the most about from young women on campus. The four sessions have covered the topics: healthy relationships, non-committal make-outs, being single and the most popular: a question and answer session about sex. (more…)
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5Feb By trevechoesonline2 Comments
Features

Remembering the life of Kyle Funke

By Morgan Daniels To Kyle Funke, Trevecca was more than a university. It was also his home—a place of belonging, brotherhood and an environment where his personality and faith truly shined, said friends and family. “He was a man of integrity. He understood his spiritual foundation and he was very faithful to it—I think Trevecca really helped that,” Pete Funke, Kyle’s father said. Kyle, 21, passed away on Sunday, January 24, 2010 after a 7-year battle with a brain tumor and cancer. He endured three surgeries and exhausted every form of treatment, but Kyle’s determination and optimism was always evident, said those who knew him best. (more…)
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4Feb By trevechoesonline1 Comment
Campus News

Cast of four performs "The Glass Menagerie"

By Adam Wadding       Four students performed , “The Glass Menagerie,” as the first performance to kick of the spring semester, and  has been added to the list of performances put on by Trevecca’s Theatre program. The cast of  four was small enough to be performed in the round, where seating was arranged where the audience sat around the stage, giving them a more personal experience. The play revolves around a small family living in the 1930's. Narrated by Tom, the son and also brother of two characters, he tells the tale while usually smoking a cigarette out on his porch.  With hopes of getting a "gentleman caller," for her daughter, Amanda Wingfield does everything in her power to give her daughter the life that she once had as a youn...
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