Monthly Archives: December 2009
The Joe Show: A New Decade
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas; I certainly did! The holiday season is so full of hope and generosity.
Christmas has passed, and tomorrow night we’ll be entering a new decade! I’m not sure if it’s the same for you, but for me, the past 10 years have come and gone like lightning.
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Merry Christmas from Gannon University!
From all of us at Edge, here’s wishing you a safe and happy holiday! Please enjoy this video from Gannon’s YouTube channel showing our campus at Christmastime!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Student Voices: Men’s Basketballers Remember Favorite Christmas Presents
Everyone has a favorite holiday memory. This includes a favorite present under the tree. The men’s basketball team at Gannon is no different. The Golden Knights stopped to reminisce about their childhood.
What was your favorite Christmas present as a child?
Steve Piotrowicz, sophomore sports management and marketing major: “A Fischer Price basketball hoop, at age two.” |
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J-School Cool: Holiday Season Unleashes Childhood Joy
Abby's preschool-era fingerpaint Christmas wreath. Look closely at the end of her name -- she also discovered the exclamation point that year. An enthusiastic writer is born.
One of the best things about growing up is that it somehow makes it even more fun to act like a kid.
Just the other day, my roommate, who spends her summers as a camp counselor at Camp Stella Maris in Livonia, N.Y., led a group of our friends in a few rounds of campfire-style word games in the living room of our apartment. Granted, we should’ve been studying for finals at that point – but the community bonding was well worth it.
I’ve been thinking a lot about my childhood after making the move back to my parents’ house for Christmas break – maybe it’s because my mom has kept every painted handprint Christmas wreath and macaroni Santa Claus I’ve ever created. I think we all need to draw on that pure, unadulterated bliss of being a kid once in a while, and Christmas is a fine time to start.
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Going Home for the Holidays: The First Trip Down Memory Lane
Finals week is wrapping up. This means that besides vocabulary words, projects with rapidly approaching due dates and never-ending essays, the only thing on everyone’s mind is Christmas break.
This is by far the most exciting and stressful time of the year. With so much going on, it’s easy to let everything become a stressor. Packing for home and all the tests and assignments that snuck up on you are on your mind, but there is also exchanging presents with friends and waiting in line to sell books back for Starbucks money to make it through long study sessions. The list goes on and on!
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1,000 Words: Bicentennial Tower Decked Out for Holidays
The Bicentennial Tower, 187 feet tall, at Dobbins Landing is decorated for the holidays! The tower’s red and green lights overlook the bay just blocks from Gannon.
–Photo by Joe Kreydt
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The Right Choice: Left on the Dial
“Erie’s Rock Alternative” is a phrase synonymous with Gannon University thanks to 90.5 WERG, Gannon’s on-campus student-run radio station. WERG offers an alternative rock format to the Erie area, something that no other station in the region does. Moreover, it has been giving Gannon students a competitive edge when entering the media workforce since 1972.
“WERG provides an atmosphere that is as close to a professional setting as possible,” said Chet LaPrice, WERG operations manager and 1992 Gannon graduate. “We introduce students to the software and hardware that are being used in professional commercial radio stations, giving Gannon students the one-up on other communication arts students who have not had the opportunity to be involved with anything of the like.”
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Gannon Community Volunteers with ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’
Photo courtesy of GannonSports.com
Move that bus!
Approximately 50 Gannon student athletes, coaches and cheerleaders helped renovate the home of Erie native Clara Ward for ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” June 26. The special two-hour episode is slated to air 8 p.m. Sunday.
Ward, 70, of 650 E. 21st St., founded the former Youth Development Center, which works with neglected and abused children, in her home. Show host Ty Pennington and the gang worked with Maleno Real Estate and Development – and, of course, the Gannon volunteers – to renovate Ward’s house in one week over the summer.
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The Joe Show: I Recommend…
I recommend taking fine and digital arts classes in college. They’re usually fun and a good break from class after class of a specific major. Most of all, they offer life skills for any career as well as for for other classes.
I’m a fine arts minor, so I have taken animation, music, digital drawing, Adobe Photoshop and other arts classes. You don’t even have to be a fine arts minor to take them, though. I’ve had classes with nursing, engineering, education, and business majors.
