Month: May 2019

When Kaitlin Griego came to St. Andrews University five years to begin working as an athletic trainer, she knew amid all of her training how to tape and assess injury, but it was another evolving task that recently gained attention at a symposium for athletic trainers:  working with international student-athletes, specifically the SAU men’s soccer team. In other words, as she says, “I had to learn so much more than I knew about patience, about describing body parts such as there are no words for toes in some Spanish speaking

As meticulously noted in “The Mythic School of the Mountain: Black Mountain College” (Our State magazine, Joseph Bathanti, NC poet laureate, April ’14), a small and rural college became known as perhaps the boldest and most progressive educational experience in American history.  “The purpose of the college is to lead on to creative consciousness a carefully selected group of young men and women who are eager to know, to will and to do.” And it was revolutionary:  no directors or trustees;  not accredited;  hand-made diplomas (for those who actually graduated, perhaps