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Richard Koenig: See Change: A Memoir
(Lenscratch, 2022-07-22)In this article, a memoir of sorts, the author outlines “mutations of a medium [fine art photography in the United States], and one it its disciples, over time”. This covers more than forty years beginning with his ... -
End of street-running era on America’s last interurban: CSS&SB to be double-tracked, grade-separated in Michigan City, Ind.
(Railway & Locomotive Historical Society, 2022)With a significant re-build of the Chicago, South Shore & South Bend railway line through Michigan City, Indiana, the distinctive street running found there (since 1908) will be lost. The author documents, through text and ... -
Marcia Wood helping a student
(Kalamazoo College, 1970)Professor Marcia Wood (1965-2001) is seen helping a female student with figure drawing. Wood is leaning over to adjust the markings on the student's paper while the student watches patiently. This is Ward C. Morgan negative ... -
The Importance of Being Earnest production
(Kalamazoo College, 1958-11)Two photos of students participating in a November 1958 performance of "The Importance of Being Earnest" in Bowen Hall. They are dressed in Victorian era clothing. One depicts four students, the other depicts seven students ... -
125th Anniversary Celebration
(Kalamazoo College, 1957)The college's 125th anniversary was to be celebrated in 1958. Celebrations kicked off at Homecoming in Fall 1957 with this cheerful float. The float is white, reading "125th ANNIVERSARY". It is placed over the walkway from ... -
No hayagua : Water Scarcity Affecting Farmers in Ensenada BC, Mexico Catalyzing the Requirement for Adaptation Methods to be Implemented
(Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College., 2022-03-01)Farmers in the Ejido of Maneadero wake up to the recurring nightmare of the phrase "no hay agua"(there is no water). Maneadero, a coastal town part of the municipality of Ensenada Baja California Mexico, is composed of ... -
“Die Frau hinter der Manipulation”: Eine Analyse der Filme Das Blaue Licht und Triumph des Willens von Leni Riefenstahl
(2022-03-01)Described by Hitler as the perfect German woman, Leni Riefenstahl was one of the best-known directors of National Socialism. During the Nazi era, Riefenstahl was a director of films that promoted the message and reputation ... -
Faculty Committee List, 2022-2023
(2022)Includes standing and ad hoc faculty committees and their members. -
The Roles and Perceptions of Women in Medieval Europe, As Reflected in a Medieval Bestiary
(2021-01-07)To the modern reader, medieval bestiaries can appear amusing and often downright funny. They were never written to be scientific truth, even at their time. Most people likely would not have countered the information found ... -
French Universalism and Jewish Particularity : French Jewish Identity from Emancipation to WWI
(2022-03-01)French Jews saw unprecedented prosperity in 19th century France due to the universalist ideas that led to their emancipation. At the time, they were the only Jews in Europe who could actively participate in the educational, ... -
Ill-Fire
(2022-03-01)The author introduces an original collection of poems by reflecting on the K experience and influential poems, and writes ”My SIP in its current state is a different creature than what I imagined and envisioned it would ... -
Is Public Education Worth Saving?
(2022-03-01)The author writes about the teachers that inspired her, including her parents, reviews the birth of public education in America, the state of public education today, and how it has been affected by political reforms, the ... -
Unveiling the Invasion of Afghanistan : Analysis and Creative Collection of the Media Coverage Surrounding Muslim and Afghan Women through Orientalist and Imperialist Frameworks
(2022-03-01)This project aims to shed a brief light on the ways in which U.S. media coverage of Muslims post-September 11, 2001 was inherently negative and used orientalist and imperialist stereotypes and caricatures of Muslims, Muslim ... -
On the Fragmentation of Contemporary Society : An Aesthetic Diagnosis and Prescription
(2022-05-13)The more we are online in the current age of social media, the more we struggle with disconnection from our physical world. The deterioration of our passionate involvement in the world can be seen as some kind of gross ... -
DIY Senior Integrative Project
(2022-03-01)I initially set out to use Heidegger’s Being in Time as the foundational theory for revealing illusions of authenticity and resoluteness in everyday life through the short form social media content labeled “do-it-yourself”. ... -
Belief, Obligation, and Objectivity
(2022-03-01)In this paper, I develop and argue for the view that an agent’s moral obligations depend on their non-moral beliefs, a view which I call doxasticism. I situate doxasticism within the current debate on whether an agent’s ... -
Modal Branching Temporalism : An Alternative to Lewisian Genuine Realism
(2022-03-01)Possible worlds theory has been wildly successful in contemporary logic and metaphysics ever since Kripke (1959) proved the completeness and consistency of modal logic using possible worlds semantics. According to possible ... -
Habermas’ Critical Social Theory and the Evolution of Money
(2022-03-01)Money plays a terrifyingly dominant role in our lives. In one way or another, it is interrelated with almost every aspect of modern society and because of this prevalence, it is difficult to imagine a world without it. ... -
On the Gendered Subject: Queering Heteronormativity
(2022-03-01)The thinkers that I have chosen provide optimistic doctrines although it might not seem that way on the surface. They invite us to be more comfortable with the idea of gendered freedom and viewing our gender as more ... -
Recent Events and Commitment to Safety and Inclusion
(Kalamazoo College, 2015-02-26)A letter from the President's Staff about an incident at a Student Commission meeting that led to students feeling unsafe on campus and the administration's pledge to address issues of safety and inclusivity.