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Bolin: Students must follow their bliss, live as they are meant to live

Bolin: Students must follow their bliss, live as they are meant to live

November 1, 2013

I always wondered if my father would have wished that my brother and I would follow him in his twin callings of pharmacist and minister. We both, my...

Professor asks students what their epitaphs will leave behind

Professor asks students what their epitaphs will leave behind

October 25, 2013

Perhaps we can tell a great deal about how folks have lived out their lives from their epitaphs. What about our epitaphs? At the end, what assessment...

Bolin: To love is to live, to live is to love

Bolin: To love is to live, to live is to love

October 18, 2013

I remember him only vaguely. He was an insurance man with an office just a few doors down from my father’s pharmacy in Arlington, Ky. I can’t see...

Derided Kentucky oath of office may be needed now more than ever

Derided Kentucky oath of office may be needed now more than ever

October 11, 2013

One of my life-long dreams was fulfilled last Thursday evening when I was sworn in as a member of Murray’s Architectural Review Board. Now, that might...

‘Circuitous routes’ we take help us find ourselves, come full circle

‘Circuitous routes’ we take help us find ourselves, come full circle

October 4, 2013

One December evening not too long ago, I sat down in the Helwys Dining Hall of Regent’s Park College to dine with students and fellows of that University...

Bolin: Books will always remain, great libraries will always house them

Bolin: Books will always remain, great libraries will always house them

September 25, 2013

Libraries without books? Not a chance. As much as technocrats prophesize the coming demise of the book, it will never happen. My friend, Terry Birdwhistell,...

Why studying history should be viewed as necessity, not luxury

Why studying history should be viewed as necessity, not luxury

September 20, 2013

Why do we have to study this stuff? While you might not ask me this question outright, I know many of you wonder. I sometimes wonder myself. Why do...

Students should take advantage of Constitution Day programs

Students should take advantage of Constitution Day programs

September 13, 2013

Tuesday, there will be a series of events on campus to celebrate Constitution Day. Martin Battle, associate professor of political science and sociology,...

Sayers: Enjoy our work so much pay matters little

Sayers: Enjoy our work so much pay matters little

September 6, 2013

As we have just celebrated Labor Day with a day off from class and, hopefully, from work, let’s turn to Dorothy Sayers, an English graduate of Oxford...

Dylan, McConnell, Murray

May 2, 2013

So the legendary Bob Dylan played to more than 3,000 admirers – young and old – at the CFSB Center last Saturday evening, and he did not disappoint....

In tragic times, we should look for helpers

April 25, 2013

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’...

A Professor’s Journal: A very modest man

April 18, 2013

On my birthday in December 2004, I found myself on a research trip to Oxford, England. More than 50 years earlier on May 6, 1954 Roger Bannister, for...

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