This coming week the different branches of the fine arts department will present several culminating events, including the Juried Art Show, the One Acts Festival and the film festival.
Although discussions have been circulating around campus on the subject of the yearbook transferring to a digital format, The Buffalo will, for the time being, remain in a book format.
Director of Library Services Gary Daught announced on April 16 through a campus-wide e-mail that Library Archivist Ginger Dillon will soon be leaving the library staff. Dillon’s choice to leave the library came with her decision to move to the Washington, D.
In early March, President Don Jeanes e-mailed the students and faculty to announce a 4.9-percent tuition increase for the 2009-2010 school year. According to Vice President for Institutional Advancement Bill Greer, the Board of Trustees approved a 7.5-percent increase in tuition at their fall meeting, but neither “they nor the administration was happy about having to do that. "The president and the cabinet made the decision later to limit the increase as much as possible," said Greer. "We cut everything we could and put together the tightest budget in years so that the increase would be below 5 percent."
Most Milligan students plan to cope with the recent tuition increase by picking up more hours at work, taking out more loans or remaining a part-time student. Few students are not changing anything at all. Freshman Cara Beth Quisenberry, a full-time commuter from Unicoi, works hard to continue attending Milligan.
