The Weight Room in the basement of Winton Hall will be open for NIC Employees and Students every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 11:30am-1:30pm.
If you have never been there, come on over and check it out. If you have been there, come over and work out.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
What OP is Reading Now - An Excerpt
Winter 2008, Vol. 10, No. 1
By Cheryl B. Torsney, associate provost for academic programs and professor of English, West Virginia University
Ralph Waldo Emerson would have agreed that we need to reconsider the importance of outdoor education. In “The American Scholar” (1837), he explains: “The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. . . The scholar must needs stand wistful and admiring before this great spectacle.” The section concludes: “[I]n fine, the ancient precept, ‘Know thyself,’ and the modern precept, ‘Study nature,’ become at last one maxim.”
I would not argue that we do not need to offer high-tech classrooms, online opportunities, and updated residence halls. I’m not so sure those residence halls need movie channels, however. I’m more convinced that if the residents of those halls spent some quality time outside experiencing nature and looking inside themselves, they might learn far more than they could from an umpteenth viewing of Die Hard III or Legally Blonde.
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