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Small children have no self-preservation skills

Marirose Osborne | Wednesday, March 27, 2019

I spent three years as a camp counselor at an art camp for small children. It’s an exhausting job, and the camp recently emailed me about working there again over the summer. I’m not going to, but the initial email sent me on a PTSD-infused stroll down memory lane. So now I feel the need

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Do it for the jokes

Colleen Fischer | Wednesday, October 3, 2018

“For Narnia!” Peter screamed this as he attacked the White Witch in Narnia. These are the sort of moments that create battle cries. Cries that motivate armies and encourage sacrifice. Moments of great adversary, and great bravery. Moments of battlefields and fairytales. My moment was far from this. I worked at an overnight summer camp

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SMC sponsors summer camp for local students

Alex Winegar | Friday, August 29, 2014

‘The Status of Girls of Indiana,’ a report published by Saint Mary’s College in Sept. 2013 found that female students in the state of Indiana fall behind boys in SAT, ACT and AP testing in math and science classes. In order to combat this trend, Saint Mary’s chemistry students sponsored an educational summer camp for Elkhart