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Emelie Peine does not fit the typical image of a professor. After obtaining her undergraduate degree at Evergreen, she pursued her dream of rock stardom, playing trombone in a ska band and received a Ph.D. from Cornell University’s Rural Sociology program with a focus on the development of the soybean industry in Brazil. This past summer she biked across Spain and Portugal and researched the emerging Chinese pork industry. On campus, Professor Peine (pronounced pine-ee) focuses on international agriculture issues, teaching a course on the international political economy of food...

Your Domestic Dilemma: “My living space has so many walls, and I have so much stuff! What do I do?” Crafty Connie’s Solution: Shelves. Shelves are great because they allow you to put your aforementioned stuff on your aforementioned walls. A good shelf, level and properly installed, speaks to your houseguests. It says, “My host(ess) has excellent taste, fine woodworking skills and many places to display all of his/her wonderful possessions. Perhaps this person is a domestic success!” Unfortunately, most college students don’t have the time, skills or tools to...

How does one create a sense of community in the raging political and religious turmoil in the context of a world preoccupied with power struggles and recession, and where to we begin the conversation about these touchy subjects?  From the semester start through the first week of November the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, together with the Hispanic Studies Program, brings the Seventh Annual Hispanic Film Festival to campus initiating the conversation about community on campus. This year’s film festival includes a series of three Hispanic films and a...

It probably felt different for every freshman the first time they stepped onto campus to start the new school year, but soon after everyone had conquered the endless I.D. card line and crammed the contents of their massive suitcase into their new little room, they set off to have a lot of similar experiences. Whether it was Play Fair, Prelude, Passages, the Urban Plunge or simply trying to find someone to eat with at meals—everyone was in the same boat from there on out. There were “Wow, I’m in college...

One of the more polemic icons traditionally associated with Spain is the Corrida de Toros, or, its less elegant translation, bull fighting. With the beginning of spring, los Plazas de Toros in Granada and all of Spain open to receive tourists and native spectators for the new season of bull fighting. This past Saturday, one of the first corridas of the season kicked off with the fifteenth “Festival Taurino,” which is an annual charity event to raise money to help find a cure for Down syndrome. Six primed bulls of...