Archive for November, 2013

Pedro Jorge and Martin Alvarez say they don’t see themselves as heroes, but that won’t fly with Logan Romero, whose life hung in the balance as the officers performed CPR on him last month at Prescott Hall.

This week’s Antelope Intros bring you a clubs coordinator and first-generation American whose parents were born in Nigeria, an enrollment counselor who is a drummer in a rock band and an admissions representative whose first name is routinely mispronounced.

First up is Lincoln Brewster for a concert of Christmas fare, to be followed by Jon Foreman of Switchfoot, Mercy Me and Jeremy Camp.

Interns live on the Disney park property either in Orlando, Fla., or Anaheim, Calif. The choice of apartment- or dormitory-style housing gives them a chance to meet other interns from around the world.

Directed by Claude Pensis and set in the late 1960s, the production has an outstanding student cast and is the most satisfying operatic effort since GCU’s arts program was revived three years ago.

There is little crossover in how Jenessa Fesmire was raised and how the children in south Phoenix, whom she mentors as a GCU Servant Scholar, live in poverty amid crime. And yet, Fesmire has become a part of their neighborhood. She has decided to move there to continue her ministry after she graduates in the spring.

Claire Penneau and Chelsey Minkler, who have two of the best female voices to come through the University’s music program, share a role in Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte,” which opens this week. The women, separated in age by 18 years, are a study in contrasts.

The fifth-generation Arizonan wears two hats at GCU: one with the College of Education and the other as academic liaison for partnerships in Strategic Educational Alliances. And he’s already known in national math-standards circles.

Although the popular rapper wants to be known for his music as much as he is for his message, his set was an abbreviated one, going for less than 35 minutes.

Highlights from the Unashamed Tour of hip-hop artists, headlined by Grammy Award winner Lecrae.