During lockdown students and staff at the University of Cumbria were invited to get in touch with their creative sides in a virtual arts and craft fair to boost mental health and wellbeing. The creative challenge was organised by final year BSc (Hons) Sport Rehabilitation student Sara Shaikh, and comprised six categories including photography; pens, crayons and pencil art; sculptures; embroidery; paintings; and miscellaneous. In total, 27 entries were received and were judged by vice chancellor Professor Julie Mennell, along with principal photography lecturer Sarah Bonner, and student union representative Amber McGhee. The winners in each category were: photography - Mel McCall; pens and pencils - Shirley Johnson; paintings - Rhiannon Fisher; miscellaneous - Sian Peters; embroidery - Bridget Cook; and sculpture - Katie Walker-Small.
Teachers tell black history traditionally and virtually
By London Bishop - lbishop@aimmediamidwest.com
FAIRBORN Whether it’s reading, watching, or creating, teachers and students at Fairborn City Schools are bringing Black History Month alive in many creative ways. Teachers at Fairborn Primary School have found ways to share the stories of black people who have influenced American history in multiple ways, both in-person and online.
On Fridays, Katie Walker’s first grade class is creating something. Just learning to write, the students are making their own magazines, containing two-sentence “articles” of influential figures like Harriet Tubman, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rosa Parks.
PaperMoon02 has been cosplaying for a little over 10 years. They were already a frequent con-goer, but decided to try dressing up just to see what it was like. 10 years later and they’re still dressing up, having way too much fun as they wear all the pretty outfits they can. You can check out their story below.
TMS: How do you decide what you’re going to cosplay?
PaperMoon02: I like picking characters with cute outfits, I do a lot of
Monster High cosplays so it makes sense. I just am drawn to characters with a killer sense of style.
During Saturday’s match against the University of Indianapolis, senior diver Caitlin Locante broke the program record on the 3M board with a score of 323.625. She passed the 318.67 score that Whitney Adams recorded back for the Cardinals in 2012.
Father Reginald Foster, exuberant figure in Vatican life who was Latinist to four popes – obituary
He translated papal writings from Italian into Latin and devised new Latin words for modern phenomena from Twitter to hot dogs
30 December 2020 • 2:09pm
Reginald Foster: he did not charge students for lessons and they soon warmed to his eccentric but rigorous teaching style
Credit: Chris Warde-Jones
Father Reginald Foster, who died on Christmas Day aged 81, was the Roman Catholic Church’s greatest post-war Latin specialist; for 40 years he translated Vatican documents into the ancient tongue and he served as Latin secretary to four popes.
Following the Second Vatican Council, Foster (a Carmelite priest) mounted a brave and eloquent, if ultimately futile, protest against the marginalisation of Latin. He condemned the growing ignorance of the language in the upper echelons of the Church, and argued with considerable ingenuity that there was a place for Latin in the modern wor