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Retiring professor will not stop teaching

When Phyllis Anderson began teaching business courses at DCCC in 1987, she made a commitment to learn and teach every technological advancement in the office. She taught typewriting at first, but once desktop computers materialized in the workplace, Anderson said, she mastered one wordprocessing program after another to make sure that she could help her business students succeed.

The show goes on

“We’re going to run the whole show today, and I really don’t want to stop,” bellows Stephen Smith, assistant professor of theater, at Delaware County Community College.

It’s the beginning of another rehearsal for “Arsenic and Old Lace,” the eighth play Smith has directed at DCCC. Smith’s shoulders visibly slump a bit as an actor botches a line in one of the first monologues.

Trout season opens

It’s a sunny afternoon March 7. A cold breeze and recent rain has made Ridley Creek’s water murky and current quick. Volunteers trample their way through brush and trees down to the creek side to dump large white buckets of trout into their new home.

Once their buckets are empty, a few of the volunteers stand and watch as the trout adapt to the cold water and eventually swim away.

The weight is over

Last year marked a milestone for Delaware County Community College. Since the college’s opening in 1967, DCCC has never had a place for students to work out... until now.

In 2010, the college opened the $60 million STEM complex that included a state-of-the-art fitness center.

Barefoot running continues to gain ground

Imagine living in a rocky and forested area of the Sierra Madre Occidental with few paved roads.

None of your neighbors have cars. The entire community has been invited to attend a wedding ceremony taking place in two days, about 200 miles away.

The American Graduation Initiative

President Obama was successful in signing a bill eliminating $87 billion in corporate student-loan reform by cutting the middle man out from gleaning millions from high interest loans for student education. However the Obama administration’s community college-graduation agenda is in jeopardy. The funding to support this appears to be a victim of political fickleness: Bill H.R. 3590, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPAC), which addresses the country’s health care, is tied to bill H.R. 4872, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. The later had contained revisions to augment H. R. 3590 – the cost savings from adopting the PPAC act was to be used to finance the community college graduation agenda.

Wikileaks fuels unrest in Egypt

The civil unrest in Egypt has received the same attention as a Facebook status update; however, the underlying details of the situation, revealed by Wikileaks, has the U.S. government wishing it could upgrade its privacy settings. “One of the important things to keep in mind,” said Jeff LaMonica, history professor at DCCC, “is that the acquisition of these files was a felony and distribution of the fruits of a crime should not be applauded.”

And the Oscar goes to…the BMFI

The Bryn Mawr Film Institute didn’t have a red carpet or a room full of stars, but that didn’t stop its members from celebrating the 83rd annual Academy Awards in style Feb. 27.

The institute, a non-profit community theater located on Lancaster Avenue in Bryn Mawr, opened the doors of the Bryn Mawr Theater to members and guests for its third annual Oscar simulcast. A pair of musicians and a 6-foot ice carving of Oscar himself greeted arriving patrons, who were encouraged to dress in their finest.

Sports stars shine at PSWA dinner

When M.N. Rawlins became the first president of the Philadelphia Sports Writers Association in 1904, roads were unpaved, the Wright brothers had just gotten a plane into the air for 40 seconds and the newspaper was emperor of the information empire.

A lot has changed.

Streets have since been paved, planes are now the safest way to travel and newspapers have been tossed aside for their flashier, younger cousin, the Internet.

Liberty and justice for all, or just for some?

There are students and faculty at this college who may remember a time when our country was segregated. Of those who don't, probably their parents, and almost certainly their grandparents, remember when "separate but equal" was America's standard.

It was during the tumultuous civil rights movement of the 1960s when people with the will to create a change made it their mission to move past that archaic way of thinking. One of the many results of that change is affirmative action.

Leo daily horoscope: see Cancer

When 19-year old Philadelphia University student Lauren Fox woke up on Jan. 10, she had no idea that everything was about to change.

She quickly got into her usual routine of making her morning coffee and toasting her plain bagel. She showered and brushed her teeth, the same as any other morning.

Then it happened.

Phantoms coach still in the dugout after 39 years

Joe Paterno was carried off the field at Beaver Stadium Nov. 7, 2010 after his team rallied from a 21-0 deficit to give Paterno his 400th win as the football coach at Penn State University.

The coach, in his 45th year, waved to the raucous crowd as they gleefully chanted “JoePa,” and all the television experts weighed in on Paterno’s place in the history of the greatest coaches of all time.

This past May another seasoned Pennsylvania coach left the field after a big win.