Student Blogs

Blogs, like chocolate, the music of Miles Davis and Hitchcock movies, can often hold the key to enlightenment. Juniata’s student bloggers give readers a peek at the behind-the-scenes action for the college’s courses, activities and sports teams.

Check out our Student Blogs!

Conventional Party Wisdom

Going well beyond the conventional wisdom, a contingent of Juniata politics students head to the Democratic National Convention to explore the electoral process. Head to Conventional Party Wisdom to read about all things political.

Conventional Wisdom: No Surprise is Good when Picking Candidates

The upcoming political conventions for the Democratic and Republican parties are becoming increasingly predictable. The parties’ presidential candidate is chosen well ahead of time, and running mates and party platforms are usually in place before the first red-white-and-blue sign is hoisted. The original purpose of the political convention — to choose the best candidate — has been changed to reflect more modern concerns; how to get the best publicity for each party’s candidate. Dennis Plane, assistant professor of politics, explains the evolution (or devolution) of the modern convention.

Read the Q&A

Beijing Blurbs

Although Doug Stiffler has an Olympian capacity for teaching, he is not spending the upcoming year in Beijing running, jumping or even watching the Olympics. Instead he will be researching an upcoming history of China’s Cold War policies. Doug has agreed to provide periodic blog entries during his time in China.

Check out Doug’s Blog.

Welcome to Juniata Extra!

Here you’ll find video, photo galleries, polls, and other content to supplement the magazine you received in the mail. Also, the full articles are here if you prefer to read them online.

Take a look and leave a comment if something interests you!

Table of Contents

• MyJuniata
• Commencement Deconstructed
• Who Was Larry Johnson?
• But What Happened to the Cat?
• Something Wild this Way Comes
• Why did the Deer Cross the Road?
• Lockdown
• Covers that Didn’t Make the Cut
• Musical Acoustics Photo Gallery and Video
• John Matter: Lizard King

MyJuniata

During the last week of classes this April, we set up a photo shoot, trying as we do every year to capture lightning in a bottle. How do you catch what it feels like here in a flat, static image? Maybe the capture happens when you get what you weren’t expecting.

And we didn’t expect a promotion for Juniata’s online access system for alumni and prospective students, MyJuniata, to become a call to the campus. We asked students to finish the phrase, “My Juniata is . . . ,” and answer it they did. We include our favorite quotes and photos here.

See Students and their Quotes.

Watch the video of the event.

Also don’t forget vote for your favorite quote.

Commencement Deconstructed

The day swooshes by faster than Jeff Gordon’s stockcar. While students understandably are busy making sure their socks match, hair is combed, tassel’s straight, robe’s intact, the rest of Juniata has been quietly working on the Commencement ceremony for days, weeks, even months in advance. Nearly every department on campus has some responsibility to make the day of Commencement run as smoothly as a Rolex timepiece.
( Read the full Commencement Deconstructed article. )

See Commencement Photos.

Watch Commencement.

Other Commencement Tidbits

• View more commencement stats.
• Watch Ryan Conrad’s speech.
• This article was featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education.