SOCIAL MEDIA EFFECTS ON HOMEWORK
CAVELIFE PAGE EIGHT MARCH 23, 2018
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Christine Eartheart, CEO of the Center for Thriving Relationships, engages with the crowd at the TEDxWabashCollege event last weekend.
TEDx RETURNS TO WABASH
B E N JOHNSO N ’18 | S TAFF W RI TER • Two years ago, Indiana University and Purdue University was the only two universities in Indiana that ran TEDx events at a consistently high level. Other large universities, such as Valparaiso University, IUPUI, and The University of Notre Dame have also ran TEDx conferences on their respective campuses, but only ran sporadically throughout the years. But
few liberal arts colleges, not only in the state but across the nation, have achieved success in operating the nationally syndicated event on a consistent basis. TEDxWabashCollege, in its two years of existence, are one of those few TEDx organizations on a liberal arts campus attempting to perform just that. The TEDx conference, with the theme Reshaping Reality, premiered last Saturday,
bringing on ten speakers from diverse backgrounds and professions to provoke new thoughts and questions to the audience of 327 people. A sold out show, the event also featured experiential learning activities for all attendees to partake in. But even though the event appears straightforward from the viewer’s SEE TEDX, PAGE THREE VOLUME 110 • ISSUE 20