When you took your first campus tour at Witt you likely heard the legend of the Wittenberg seal and its power to prevent your graduation You were probably told about the kissing bridge with its magic to solidify true love among those who cross it—and kiss you might have caught whispers of the long-standing tradition of streaking the hollow—and of the infamous trifecta!  Such stories while not codified as official Wittenberg information nonetheless get handed down from year to year forming an important part of campus culture What are the stories that shape the place we know as Wittenberg students in the Fall 2023 CMDM 220 Podcasting: Digital Storytelling took up their recorders and set out across campus to see what they could find The result is What the Witt?!, a 9-part series that shares Wittenberg stories you likely wouldn’t hear on a campus tour. Tune in and enjoy! Who knows, this may just help you recall your own Witt stories; we’d love to hear them! Give it a listen, and let us know what you think at cwaggoner@wittenberg.edu This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page "Not often enough for me,” Linda McGuffin said the Columbus mother was holding tight to one of the last things she heard from her son “One of his last texts to me said he loved me,” Linda McGuffin told The Dispatch from her East Side home.   Columbus police are investigating two Friday night homicides the first of which took the life of Linda's son Here's The Dispatch's updated map of where homicides have occurred in Columbus to the 900 block of Barnett Road on the East Side on a report of a shooting where they found Max McGuffin suffering from a gunshot wound but ultimately succumbed to his injuries and died at 8:20 p.m Friday.  His death was the fourth homicide of 2022 Columbus police identified Genghis Z. Shakhan of Franklinton as the suspect and obtained a warrant for his arrest Saturday at 12:30 p.m Columbus police SWAT team arrested Shakhan without incident Saturday afternoon and he was transported to the Franklin County jail Linda McGuffin described her son as a “real good guy,” and a good father to two children He worked often at the auto repair business where he was shot “It was just devastating,” Linda McGuffin said of learning her older son had been slain “We’re all so sick of all this gun violence going on.”   More: Clintonville shooting leaves one dead and Columbus police worrying about 2020-2021 repeat More: Family of man fatally shot outside Clintonville home asks for public's help to solve homicide It’s not the first tragedy for Linda McGuffin, who lost her younger son, Evan, in 2015. Evan McGuffin was 23 when he died “after many struggles" with addiction and medical issues.  “We've all had our issues in the past, Max and Evan, and everybody,” said Linda McGuffin.  Max McGuffin was a strong-headed man, and could be stubborn, she said.  “When this happened last night, it was just, on top of everything, so devastating." Homicide detectives are also investigating a separate suspected homicide Friday night in Franklinton, where firefighters responding to a vehicle on fire discovered a body inside.   Columbus firefighters were called around 8:40 p.m. Friday to a vehicle fire in the 100 block of Yale Avenue between West Broad Street and McKinley Avenue. After extinguishing the pickup truck that was on fire, Columbus Fire Battalion Chief Steve Martin said firefighters discovered a body in the back seat. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:56 p.m. Homicide detectives were called to the scene and are now investigating the death as a suspected homicide.  The deceased person’s name will be released once police confirm the identity and can notify family, police said.   The pickup truck death would be the fifth homicide in 2022, all five occurring within just four days.   Anyone with information regarding these or any Columbus homicides is asked to call the city police Homicide Unit at (614) 645-4730 or Central Ohio Crime Stoppers at (614) 461-TIPS (8477). 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Central Asia, on view at Fondazione Elpis in Milan from October 24, 2024-April 13, 2025, presents an orientation to the region from the perspective of 27 artists, linked by their connection to the expansive and diverse geography known as Central Asia (Kazakhstan though varied in every other way–by generation Guest curators Dilda Ramazan and Aida Sulova, active participants in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, respectively, despite now living in Europe and the US invited artists to identify their own positionality—temporally existentially—relative to the broad question: Where are you The gesture of agency contrasts the way the region tends to be spoken for typically through persistent and tired stereotypes around conflict and terrorism government corruption and cultural mystery also including an impressive collection of contemporary approaches to traditional textile-making felting and other practices endemic to the region A striking collage by Anna Ivanova combines circular “tree stump” cross-sections built from fabric scraps embroidered and painted onto a colourful ikat ground, bordered by a wide band of resist-dyed skyscrapers and construction cranes Riffing on a traditional hand-embroidered technique known as Suzani the work references environmental damage brought about by the rapid development transforming the artist’s native Uzbekistan Munara Abdukakharova updates the ubiquitous Kyrgyz toshok or floor mattress utilised functionally in the exhibition as seating with Soviet symbols and recognisable city markers slowly defamiliarising as the capital of Bishkek itself evolves focusing on neighbouring geographies whose histories and cultural practices were more easily erased and assimilated the relatively recent independence movements in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union means that national and cultural identities are evolving and emerging in real time this has been picking up with culture ministries recognising the strategic possibilities of art and throwing support into new projects including supporting a splashy new biennial to open this fall in Bukhara the art world keeps discovering the region Does our preoccupation with identifying simple narratives for places less familiar to dominant cultures obscure our capacity to understand those areas on their own terms Is Central Asia culturally barren or resource-rich Is it perennially unstable or grappling with the challenges of sustaining democracy like just about everywhere else – recently independent or not Does the art world’s obsession with finding unturned stones (and markets) precipitate a tendency to forget what we already know Central Asia’s geopolitical invisibility within the globalised art ecology in particular belies the richness of its potential as a site of learning and expansion of thought metaphorical way – in a literal sense By looking closer at the developments following the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the ways national and cultural identity are reshaping we might find ways to reorient ourselves within the constraints and contradictions of our own regions isn’t a linear progression from colonisation to liberation messy path toward self-determination.   Yerbossyn Meldibekov’s metal sculptures trouble the maps we rely on for scientific information Four wall-hung aluminium basins engraved with topographical markings seem to chart various regional mountain peaks with surfaces transformed into their own jagged terrain rendering straightforward reading a challenge Decades of Soviet rule rendered native languages and customs invisible including replacing the names of mountain peaks Meldibekov’s work reveals the hubris of renaming natural phenomena which will inevitably outlive the reign of any one government both at home and out of place in her natural environment there is something exciting happening across Central Asia though a big question is are we willing to slow the momentum to absorb Central Asia into existing systems and instead look to it for new forms Paying attention to the region on its own terms may build muscle and intercept an impulse to recreate what we already have scholars and activists based in the region and part of the growing diaspora seem to be together in growing dialogues across an expanded ecosystem A byproduct of lacking formalised arts infrastructure is that many arts organisations like Steppe Space and Kuduk are galvanising social and ecological change via virtual and IRL (in real life) spaces and show transformative potential beyond the region Rashid Nurekeyev’s Landmark by the Sun resembles a totem more than the land surveying tool that its form references Rather than marking key points on the Earth’s surface for civic or federal activity this sculpture becomes part of the natural landscape establishing dialogue between the exhibition site in Italy and other regions in his native Kazakhstan where Nurekeyev has installed previous landmarks There is the possibility of a network here of reciprocal learning and mutual transformation opportunity to reorient an understanding toward this polyvalent region Deeper exploration by art audiences will inevitably lead to more nuanced and sustained understanding as we take the lead of artists who locate themselves in relation to the part of the world they come from Before absorbing the region into the dominant modes of the Euro-American art worlds perhaps we take the current opportunity to put the onus not on the exhibition or the artists but on ourselves as informed viewers to see differently ‘YOU ARE HERE: Central Asia’ is on view at Fondazione Elpis (The views and opinions expressed here are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official position of STIR or its editors.) When a famed Indian artist used a protest poet’s words without credit it raised a deeper question: who gets to speak The veteran curator on the Sharjah Biennial 16 and collection-building as history-writing This selling exhibition has been conceived as a collaboration between WWF to further ocean conservation initiatives across the UK A museum at Cambridge University examines Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade between 1750-1850 Exclusive preview for subscribers. Learn More Make your fridays matter. Learn More © Copyright 2019-2025 STIR Design Private Limited Please confirm your email address and we’ll send you a link to reset your password All your bookmarks will be available across all your devices Password must be 8 characters long including one capital letter By creating an account, you acknowledge and agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy by STIR Select the Conversation Category you would like to watch Please enter your details and click submit Single account access for STIRworld.com,STIRpad.com and exclusive STIRfri content Verification link sent to check your inbox or spam folder to complete sign up process by Megha Ralapati | Published on : Mar 11, 2025 A high school basketball team from China recently traveled to Los Angeles to play with local teams — both sides came away impressed with the competition and appreciated the cultural exchange. Players from the Tsinghua University High School, or TUHS, basketball team visited Southern California earlier this month to engage in several friendly matches with their counterparts in the United States. Following two-hour-long competitions between the TUHS and Duarte High School, or DHS, Shakhan Lewis, coach of the DHS girls' basketball team, said she was deeply impressed by the basketball skills demonstrated by the Chinese students. "They played amazing; they are an excellent team. Thanks for playing with us," she said. Kevin Morris, administrative director of the Duarte Unified School District, who oversees the international student exchange program, said that the exchange was a "great opportunity" for students from both sides to collaborate and share their cultures. Morris has visited Chinese cities and schools over the last 10 years. In 2018, he led the girls' basketball team on an exchange tour to China, spanning 12 days and visited Wenzhou, Hangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing. "It was a good experience for our kids. Our parents and our students said it was the best trip they'd ever taken. You know, the Chinese culture is very hospitable, and they really took care of our kids. It was a really good experience," said Morris. Wang Zeqi, a coach of the TUHS basketball team, said he and the team have benefited a lot from competing with US teams. "We experienced their athletic talent, sportsmanship, and learned about the sports industry. These experiences significantly contributed to our improvement," said Wang, adding that the team has won numerous high school championships. In recent years, several members of the school's boys' and girls' basketball teams have pursued opportunities in the US for studies and professional basketball. Notable players such as Han Xu, Li Yongwei and others have represented their schools and country on the international stage. Bai Xuefeng, TUHS vice-principal, said the school remains committed to fostering the exchange of youth basketball. "I hope to see more American teenagers visit China in the future, experiencing its richness firsthand, showcasing China's positive image and cultural diversity, and nurturing additional Chinese cultural ambassadors and advocates," Bai said. The TUHS is not the only school supporting exchanges among young people. On Feb 6, students from the art troupe of the Beijing-based High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China, or RDFZ, also charmed their audience at the International Studies Learning Center, or ISLC, in Los Angeles, with dance, music and martial arts. Noticing that the center's logo is a dragon, a symbol of China, Guo Shaochun, the Chinese consul general in Los Angeles, said that while the two countries may have different interpretations of the dragon, cultural exchange has built a bridge for both peoples to better understand each other. "The future of China-US relations lies in the youth," he said. "I believe the performance will deepen the understanding of Chinese culture, allowing youth to appreciate the shared pursuit of artistic expression between the East and the West. "I hope the young people of the two nations will have conversations and interactions and serve as goodwill ambassadors between our two countries and two peoples," he said. Your Ads Privacy ChoicesIMDb At least nine people were killed after part of an apartment building collapsed in central Kazakhstan "Nine dead people were pulled from the rubble" of the building in the village of Shakhan following the collapse late Sunday the emergencies committee of the interior ministry in the central Asian nation said in a statement A 32-year-old man had been pulled alive from the rubble The ministry said it had dispatched 70 emergency workers to take part in the rescue operation The remaining residents of the building have been evacuated A government committee has been set up to probe the incident Building collapses are not uncommon throughout the former Soviet Union either due to faulty construction or worn-out infrastructure Former India cricket captain and ex-BCCI chief Sourav Ganguly was roped in as the brand ambassador for Tripura Tourism Ganguly expressed his willingness to be the brand ambassador for Tripura tourism after the state’s Tourism Minister Sushanta 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for all competitive exams:  Adidas Named New India Cricket Team Kit Sponsor Find More Appointments Here Welcome to the Current Affairs Section of Adda247 If you are preparing for Government Job Exams then it is very important for you to read the Daily Current Affairs All the important updates based on current affairs are included in this Daily Current Affairs 2024 article which reiterate customs followed from ages Sisters ties Rakhi at ‘Shubh-Muhurt’ (the favorable time to perform customs) on right wrist of her brother with love Brother vows to care and protect her lifelong Sisters garnishes Pooja thali enthusiastically with Roli On ‘Shravan Purnima’ (Full moon day of Hindu month Shravan) This promising day retains a matchless bond between brothers and sisters This year Raksha Bandhan is coming on 24th of August On this religious festival She first place Tilak on her Brother’s forehead along with Akshat offer sweets and while doing aarti generally tend to sing the following mantra in her heart : Behen ne rakhi bandhi / Bhai tu chir jug jee” This means “The sun radiates its sunlight,  the radish spreads its seeds I tie Rakhi to you O’ brother and wish may you live long.” In Hindu ‘Shastras’ following mantra can be referred on Raksha bandhan: “Yena baddho Balee raajaa daanavendro mahaabalah tena twaam anubadhnaami rakshe maa chala maa chala” like the one on mighty demon king Maha Bali Be firm There are different beliefs and stories connected with Raksha Bandhan festival Here I am putting some most common historical beliefs and some very rare views of individuals on this auspicious day Origin of Rakhi is said to be followed by the Lord Yama (Lord of Death) and his sister Yamuna Yamuna bestowed immortality by tying Rakhi to Yama Yama was pleased by the calmness of the occasion and declared that whenever someone get a Rakhi tied by his sister and promises her protection will achieve immortality Story of Rani Karnawati and Emperor Humayun : When we talk about Rakhi many popular tales flashes in our mind one among them is of Rani Karnawati and Emperor Humayun Rani Karnawati the widowed queen of the king of Chittor realized that it’s hard for her to defend Sultan of Gujarat Bahadur Shah’s invasion Karnawati’s Rakhi touched Emperor’s heart with sisterly love and he set off with his troops to defend Chittor’s honor when Lord Krishna suggested Yudhishthir to perform ceremony in order to protect his army and himself from war the mother of Pandavas then tied Rakhi to Grandson Abhimanyu and Draupadi tied it to Lord Krishna A Famous Bengali Poet Rabindranath Tagore’s revelation of celebrating Raksha Bandhan was completely different As he was of the opinion that Rakhi is not only for brothers and sisters but it’s a celebration of mankind for kindness He popup the idea of celebration by all people of society by helping and protecting each other and promoting melodious social life In Today’s perspective Tagore’s dream is much applicable as it edifies us to care for others A reason behind this revelation dates in 1905 when India was under British rule and they decided to divide Bengal on the basis of cast and religion On this occasion Tagore prearranged a ceremony to celebrate Raksha Bandhan to tighten the bond of love between Hindus and Muslims of Bengal to fight against Britishers Raksha Bandhan was used as a Platform to spread nationality and brotherhood among the people of different racial groups Rabindranath Tagore with its literary work surpassed race it’s only our thinking beyond cast and religion that can make us good human being So he opted Raksha Bandhan to convey his message among masses Rabindranath Tagore in Shantiniketan initiated and started greeting people since then people started tying Rakhi to their neighbors So in the today’s context Rakhi holds the key of peace and harmony among each other Raksha Bandhan is still a day dedicated to brother and sister relationship making it world’s one of the most unique festival © 2019 ·UdaipurTimes.com (Owned by Unico Management Solutions) The Torch is going strong with new members and a few out of town guests gathered together in the Torch office led the group in a discussion over topics that have come up in previous bi-weekly meetings These topics included possible different publishing schedules struggles being faced with such a small staff of full-time students a Wittenberg alumni founded and owned non-profit has continued to work closely with the Torch The WIN foundation donated a camera and helped to fund the party They are also working to start a program for high school students to intern and write stories for the Torch as a way to get experience there is hope that continued interest and support from Wittenberg and its community will keep the Torch active One effort to prolong the Torch's success is the offered Fall semester course ENGL 241 Beginning Journalism being taught by adjunct professor and Torch advisor D'Arcy Fallon If you have any interest in joining or questions, please join our GroupMe: https://groupme.com/join_group... or email Evelyn Huspen at huspene@wittenberg.edu Monday and Thursday at 7:30 pm in Shouvlin 001 Photo Courtesy: Wittenberg University's Thomas Library While public libraries across the country are experiencing a period of darkness Wittenberg students have brought color back into Thomas Library Despite the uncertainty regarding the future of public libraries 10 Wittenberg students found a way to make a positive impact by taking on the creative project of painting the columns inside the library during their FIRE week The Thomas Library describes this project on the website, “From neolithic cave paintings to modern murals and sculpture art in public spaces has tremendous power to tell a story and create a sense of shared belonging,” it says Amanda McLellan and art professor Gypsy Schindler partnered to lead a group of 10 students on tours of public art in Springfield and design and create a mural in Thomas Library.” McLellan describes the purpose of the colorful project “In this project initiative with Gyspey Schindler our purpose was putting some color on some of the columns to allow students to build a sense of community,” she said She also emphasized the importance of public art in the library “It gives some students the opportunity to build that here in the library.” the inspiration came from the idea of brightening the space shared their personal motivation for the project “I think it gives another reason for people to go,” they said Julian chose to incorporate bright fruit designs at the bottom of the columns explaining why in their artist statement When learning about this opportunity to paint a mural in the library I knew I wanted to incorporate some of that bright fun into the space.” who has dedicated 17 years to the university library has not only been a vital part of the library’s operations but is important to the students as well I have friends and family and colleagues here.” Her story reflects a broader issue across Ohio The state is facing significant challenges as the main source of public funding for Ohio libraries could lose millions of dollars due to the House Draft of the state operating budget These cuts would impact the vital programs and community initiatives taking part in these programs across the state.    the House budget cuts could impact public libraries across 39 counties They also report that the libraries would see funding cuts via the new distribution formula as soon as the budget is enacted McLellan explained how devastating these budget cuts would be to all public libraries in Ohio “Public libraries are a place you don’t have to pay to be,” she said “With these cuts to public libraries that’s over half of their operating budget Peters echoed this sentiment highlighting the impact “It’s going to hurt job training it’s going to hurt literacy Peters and McLellan emphasize the importance of student involvement now more than ever “I encourage students to contact representatives your voice is just as important as everyone else McLellan says Even if it’s just a little go check out a book go use your space while we have it so we can demonstrate why it’s important!”   Support the local Clark County Public library : https://mailchi.mp/d1c06c728221/whats-going-on-at-the-library-8334839?e=0644e55ffe