135 graduates to receive diplomas from RustMinnesota Annual Conference Bishop Sally Dyck will deliver Commencement speechThere are 63 candidates from the Science & Math division; 18 from Humanities; 17, Education; 21, Business; and 16 from Social Science division.
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Bishop Sally Dyck |
Graduates talk about future after RustSeveral seniors that will participate in the event reflect on the time they spent here at Rust and their plans after graduation.
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Cecelia Smith |
ICS Head Start PR director, Fannie Lampley, keynotes breakfast addressAlumna Lampley once served as the dean of students at Rust, and the first woman to hold such position at the college.
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Fannie Lampley |
CLASS OF 2010 - RUST COLLEGE GRADUATES - SUNDAY, APRIL 25EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!!! Keep up with events at your alma mater: www.rustorian.com and FaceBook.
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Education superintendent gives self-esteem pointersCampus UNCF Fundraising nears $40,000 goalIt was as close to reality when the first black superintendent of education for Benton County Schools, Patrick Washington, ...initially dressed in a business suit, quickly gets the audience attention by having Rust College security escorted him to the podium, in handcuff and wearing orange prison jumpsuit.
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Funds may delay Rust expansion projectM.I. College which was founded in 1903 and closed in 1983 is now owned by Rust College.
Vice President Dr. Ishmell Edwards said Rust
acquired the property and plans to rehabilitate the buildings for future expansion of Rust College.
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Rust college awaits visits from the Department of Interior for decision on the old M.I. campus. |
Budgetball kicks off at RustBudgetball is designed to increase awareness of the national debt and reward strategic thinking and collaborative problem-solving around the issues of fiscal responsibility.
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Legislature approves funding to boost tourismThe Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum in Holly Springs will receive $150,000 to help promote tourism in the city.
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum |
Wright reflects on Obama"They tried to use me as weapon of mass destruction," Wright said. According to Wright the media spent $4,000 during the
presidential campaigning to acquire 20 years worth of his sermon tapes and edited segments
of certain sermons for the particular soundbites they desired.
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Rev. Jeremiah Wright |
Meredith calls nearby school busing poor decision"We don't trust one another. We are scared of one another. If children walked to schools that are close enough to walk, every
parent would know every other parent and they would know where the potential problems
were and we could stop it in the community."
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Civil Rights icon James Meredith. |
Sorority on 2-yr probation; Another under investigationRust College has suspended the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated Theta Pi Chapter
for violating the campus policy on hazing. The organization will not be eligible for reinstatement until 2012.
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Rust professor traces African roots in bookModey expressed one of his inspirations to completing this book are the questions
received from students over the years. "They want to know what really happened during the slave trade. Why so many Africans ended up in the New World."
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Dr. Yao Foli Modey |
QEP to raise standards at Rust'No more bending the rules' -Jo Ann Scott, director of enrollment"No more bending the rules. This is an aggressive stride to get the quality of students that Rust College desires and needs," said Scott.
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Alumni Zondra Hughes,'94, Nick Johnson,'01, launch booksIn Living The Ebony Life: E-Mails From The
Plantation, Ebony magazine alum Zondra Hughes delivers a hilarious narrative, backed by authentic e-mails, memos, and grainy surveillance photos, of the outrageous office politics that turned a dream job at the number one magazine in Black America into a living nightmare.
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'RepoMen' will go any length to repossess your organsConsider them your final notice!According to Diggs, the story of this movie centers around a man who struggles to make payments on a heart he purchased, but he goes on the run before the heart he purchased is repossessed.
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Repo Men starring Forest Whitaker and Jude Law |
Mama Africa Cries Out To Her Sons and DaughtersMother Afrika cries out to her lost
children in the Americas
We do not understand our Mother
because she is speaking African and
we are speaking echoes from a cave of ignorance; English, French, Spanish and German. WAKE UP!
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Poet Johnathan Sundjata Parker |
ICS to open Early Head Start Center on Rust campusMcClinton expressed the timely opportunity offered by the college for the use of the facility. She said there is a long waiting
list of people trying to get into the early head start program, and the partnership with Rust will serve the community well.
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ICS completes renovation works on the old daycare building. |
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