80-year-old magna cum laude is also university’s oldest graduate
Eighty-year-old Donzella Washington made history when she graduated from the Alabama A&M University as magna cum laude and its oldest graduate.
Irish school asks students for acts of kindness instead of homework for December
An elementary school in County Cork, Ireland, has done away with formal homework for December, instead asking students to carry out acts of kindness and record them daily in a diary. Gaelscoil Mhichíl Uí Choileáin in Clonakilty made the announcement on its official Facebook account last Dec. 2, following the success of the school’s “gratitude […]
Couple donates kidneys to strangers, hopes others would follow
A married couple from New Jersey, United States, decided to donate their kidneys together in the hopes of inspiring others to also do so.
We can samgyeopsal all we want, but…
Some are firm in defending their love of samgyeopsal, while there are those who acknowledge the negative effects on health and the environment.
Students give clothes to peer who got bullied for wearing same outfit every day
Two high school students in Memphis, Tennessee, bought clothes for their classmate who was bullied for wearing the same outfit every day. Michael Todd’s first couple of weeks as a freshman at Martin Luther King Preparatory High School were quite tough. He was a new student and was being mocked by his classmates because he […]
As friends fail to show up, boy’s 7th birthday is attended by firefighters, with sirens blaring
A young boy from Florida, United States was excited to celebrate his 7th birthday, but things took a turn when none of his friends showed up.
WATCH: Students surprise beloved teacher with ‘Hamilton’ tickets
A group of high school students in New Jersey surprised their history teacher with tickets to the Broadway musical “Hamilton”.
The varying moods of Fête de la Musique
Year after year, the noise behind the self-referential Fête de la Musique just seems to get more and more resonant, the building up of the music festival eliciting a sense of anticipation and elation from nth-timers, and slight apprehension from the nonconverted. While music fêtes are demonstrated through busking in the manifold streets of France, such is a concept […]
IN PHOTOS: IISA: The three movements of Danao, Dumas, and Dancel
If the rain gods figured that bagyong Domeng was a deterrent cruel enough to keep concertgoers inside their houses and out of Kia Theater, Cubao that faithful day of June 9, then they were very much mistaken. For if there’s one maxim worth falling under Kant’s categorical imperatives as a universal law, let it be […]