Disc golf coming to WCC?

Disc golf coming to WCC?

JAMES HIGHSMITH

Sports Writer

Washtenaw Community College has upgraded its sporting facilities in a major way, but could another project be in the making?

According to Director of Student Development and Activities Ian Griffin, disc golf could be likely.

With the popularity of disc golf rising in the community, a three-hole course may … Read more>>

Cool heads prevail during Middle East debate at Towsley

Cool heads prevail during Middle East debate at Towsley

JAMES HIMES

Contributor

ANDREW KUHN WASHTENAW VOICE

About 200 people attended an emotionally-charged “Media Coverage and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” and while some post-lecture comments were confrontational, the audience was largely respectful and studious throughout.

“Life is not a football game,” Alison Weir told a focused crowd in … Read more>>

For ‘Earth Day’and ‘Farm Career Day,’ A2 looks to WCC

For ‘Earth Day’and ‘Farm Career Day,’ A2 looks to WCC

QUINN DAVIS

Staff Writer

ROBERT CONRADI WASHTENAW VOICE

Prepare to see a lot of green and white at Washtenaw Community College during April.

Rest easy, Michigan fans – Michigan State isn’t coming to infiltrate the campus. Instead, WCC is hosting a few environmentally focused events, … Read more>>

Johnny Damon acquisition: Fair or Foul?

Johnny Damon acquisition:Fair or Foul? – Point

IAN GRIFFIN

Johnny Damon is not going to hit 27 home runs this year. He may not win his third World Series ring in 2010. And Tigers fans should be advised to look away when he makes a throw from the outfield.

But the Tigers signing Damon to a … Read more>>

Remember what you did last summer? She saved Bambi

Remember what you did last summer? She saved Bambi

Matt Thompson

Staff Writer

JOHN ROSSMAN COURTESY PHOTO

April Stafford was rafting down a river with a fellow Washtenaw Community College student when she thought she heard an angry duck around her. The two of them quickly discovered that this was no mad quacker. It was … Read more>>

Student athletes finally get access, after hours and for a fee, to HFC

Student athletes finally get access, after hours and for a fee, to HFC

James Highsmith

Contributor

Three years after Washtenaw Community College’s Health and Fitness Center was built, the college’s student athletes are finally able to use the facility. Sort of.

Since October, WCC men’s and women’s basketball teams have been practicing twice a week in the … Read more>>

Save the Appalachians!

Save the Appalachians!
Mountaintop removal activist to visit WCC

Addie Shrodes

Editor

ashrodes@wccnet.edu

MOUNTAINROADSHOW.COM COURTESY PHOTO

When Larry Gibson was a boy, he climbed to the top on his family’s mountain in West Virginia, and mountains towered around him. Some fifty years later, mountaintop removal coal mining has flattened everything around Gibson’s Kayford Mountain.

But Gibson is … Read more>>

$55,000 for new platform tennis court. Wonder why?

$55,000 for new platform tennis court. Wonder why?

Matt Thompson

Staff Writer

mthompson3@wccnet.edu

MICHAEL WESTHOFF THE WASHTENAW VOICE

Club Sports has no use for it, the Health and Fitness Center didn’t know it was coming and most students have no clue about the game, yet Washtenaw Community College is investing $55,000 in a heated, lighted platform … Read more>>