Maggie Austin

Dance, in all its various forms, is culturally universal. Dance can embody emotional expression, social interaction, or religious devotion.

There is no arguing that Greenville is a beautiful city. A walk down Main Street to Falls Park on the Reedy or a bike ride on Swamp Rabbit Trail are wonderful escapes from campus life. As a high school senior, the city of Greenville was a major selling point when I was choosing a college. Now, as a Furman senior looking back at my past four years, I can say I have fully explored everything the city has to offer.

Twenty years ago, the first Associated Colleges of the South biennial Women’s and Gender Studies conference was held at our very own Furman University. Our University will welcome back the conference to its campus on April 4th and 5th, 2014. The sixteen member institutions meet every other year and discuss a specific theme that is relevant to gender studies.

Did you know that by attending Euphoria, Greenville’s food, wine, and music festival, you would get the chance to rub elbows with community leaders, celebrity chefs, recording artists, and members of the national media and raise a little money for charity in the process? All the profits from this opportunity to enjoy Greenville, familiarize oneself with the culinary arts, sip lovely libations, and jam out with Nashville’s best singer-songwriters go to charities that benefit the Greenville community.

The Elementary Education Major is harder than you might think. These future teachers take on the emotional burden of teaching young children while shouldering a full major’s worth of coursework.