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nominee Mitt Romney, and vice presi- dential candidate Paul Ryan (www. wagner.edu/newsroom/node/436). Donald Crooks and Cathyann Tully say key changes would ensure the solvency of the current Social Security system until it can be replaced.


Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa, launched its yearlong focus on eradi- cating malaria with a free Sept. 25 key- note address by investigative journalist Sonia Shah, author of The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years (Sarah Crichton Books, 2010). Wartburg’s focus on malaria is part of the ELCA Malaria Campaign (www.elca.org/malaria) and has received ELCA funding. Campaign coordinator Jessica Nipp Hacker, a 1998 Wartburg graduate, was part of a panel discussion that preceded Shah’s talk.


Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, saw its William A. McClain Black Culture House become the William A. McClain Center for Diversity. The building brings together under one roof Concerned Black Students, the Ameri- can International Association, and the Gay/Straight Alliance. “This arrange- ment increases the opportunities for our students to learn from each other, and it may also enrich the ways they carry out their social awareness mission on this campus,” said Rick Incorvati, asso- ciate professor of English and adviser for the Gay/Straight Alliance. Senior Chaunta Banks led the efforts to estab- lish a diversity center and combine the groups’ efforts.


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Emily Slaton, a sophomore at Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, who never thought of herself as a writer, saw her freshman composition paper titled “Music Education Budget Crisis” pub- lished in the Music Educator’s Journal (September 2012). Slaton credits TLU professor Beth Barry and her “write to serve” curriculum with helping her


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