October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, is a good time to consider how many women around the world are surviving breast cancer. One such woman is our Dean, Dr. Dolores Straker. Dean Straker is beginning her second year here at RWC and is the perfect role model for her students and […]
Author: Mary Carter
Breast Cancer Awareness: Attention women…and men too
For everyone who thought breast cancer was strictly for women, think again. I am not denying the great devastation that breast cancer has on women. I am only trying to tell the men out there that they can be affected too. The month of October is breast cancer awareness month, […]
RWC gets new parking lot and building
On returning to classes this fall, you may have noticed the new construction in the parking lot at the rear of the campus. Over the summer the rear parking lot itself was enlarged to accommodate 379 vehicles, and an extra walkway runs from the parking lot to the main buildings. […]
RWC joins effort to assist Food Bank
The entire RWC community has the opportunity to help eradicate hunger as well as work for world peace. Jonathan Adee, director of Client Services of the Cincinnati Free Store Food Bank, reports a 30% increase since 2003 in clients requesting food. There are increasing numbers of elderly, unemployed, and working […]
Mount St. Helens: when will it blow?
Many students around campus probably do not know about the natural wonder of Mount St. Helens, which is one of the biggest active volcanoes on United States mainland soil. Most people do know about the volcanoes on the Hawaiian Islands, but not many people realize that Mount St. Helens is […]
RWC students sent to jail
This past August, RWC Criminal Justice Professor Marilyn Simon and a group of Pre-Criminal Justice students visited the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility, a maximum security prison in Lucasville, Ohio. The facility holds some of the most dangerous criminals in the system, with fifty percent of inmates locked down. This means […]
OIT Department welcomes new member
Professor Heather Phillips is the newest member of the Office Information Technology department. Professor Phillips will be teaching management, computer technology, and web technology. Ms. Phillips is also a new academic advisor for Computer Support Technology majors, and she is a co-advisor for the Business Professionals of America. Professor Phillips […]
Is bigger better?
There’s no such thing as too much, right? For most people, everything has to be bigger, better, and faster, and the grand scale with which we live demonstrates that size indeed matters. We super-size fast-food–triple-decker cheeseburgers slapped together with the flesh of a thousand cows; we drive monstrous vehicles–built to […]
College hosts foreign language workshop
Over 100 foreign language teachers from the Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area attended a workshop sponsored by the RWC Foreign Language Department. The workshop was held on the RWC campus on Saturday, October 9. Tom Alsop, adjunct instructor in Spanish at Butler University and Director of the Indiana University […]
Bush has failed us: elect John Kerry
Concerned about Student Loans? House Republicans are pressing a proposal made by President Bush that would eliminate your right as a student to consolidate student loans at fixed rates. Bush’s proposal would leave the student borrower vulnerable to thousands of dollars in high interest payments. Not a surprise, since Bush […]