Common Ground, the Counseling Center, and the Newman Center are sponsoring a number of activities for today in remembrance of 9/11.
Session: Responding to Trauma — How you can help
Room 307, Young Student Center, Noon
As we learned from Sept. 11, disasters can occur when we least expect it.  Do you know how to help others if [...]

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We mentioned this previously, but it bears repeating: we’re responsible, in part, for the recent explosion of owl illustrations across the internet. The college will celebrate its 100th anniversary in 2009, and the Children’s Literature Festival has set a goal to have 100 owls drawn by published children’s literature artists for that special occasion.
And the contributions are popping [...]

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Great article today in the Sentinel on Keene State’s An Evening of Dance performance. What do you say about an article that starts off like this:
When Marcia Murdock began teaching dance at Keene State College 22 years ago, the spring student and faculty performance consisted of about 20 minutes of short pieces. More than three [...]

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We generally don’t post events on the Feed: if you want to see events, you should go to the events page on the main Keene State site.
But the Native American Film Festival isn’t just an event. It’s history in the making.
Keene State College has teamed up with the Friends of the Oglala Lakota to bring [...]

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There’s coverage a bunch of places on this, so I won’t needlessly duplicate it. You can read about the event in Foster’s Daily Democrat, The Brattleboro Reformer, or at the WMUR site, which contains a short video as well.
The most striking thing to me was the number of students who had their hands up for [...]

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The Geography Bee held at Keene State has a winner: seventh-grader Milan Sandhu.
The winning question?
There are certain hot winds in southern California, named after a canyon — what are they called?
More on this story in The Nashua Telegraph.
(Oh, and the answer to the question above? The Santa Ana winds.)

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Senator Obama is at Keene State today for a Town Hall Forum at the Spaulding Gym. Doors open at 6 p.m. The College has no more tickets to distribute, but if you wish to come, please RVSP to the event at the Obama campaign website.

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Thomas Oliphant, an award-winning political journalist and former Boston Globe columnist, will discuss the future of Presidential politics in a state that seems to be turning a deeper shade of purple. Presented as the Eighteenth Annual Mason Library Lecture.
New Hampshire: Am I Blue?
7:30 p.m., Wed., Apr. 18
Mabel Brown Room, Student Center
Keene State College
This event is [...]

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