Emma Fry, Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio, Swarm

This work is created for the Senior Art Exhibition 2024. This work explores the feeling of being alienated by communities.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/artportfolios/1087/thumbnail.jp

Giovanna Minneci, Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio

This is work created for the Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio 2024.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/artportfolios/1085/thumbnail.jp

Sydney Suchy, Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio

This is work created for the Senior Art Exhibition Portfolio 2024. This work includes, graphic design, branding, package design and ad design

Orts 78, 2023

The main purpose of this edition of Orts is to give our George MacDonald Society members and friends early notice that registration for our 2024 George MacDonald Conference at Wheaton College has now gone live. You can see the current line up of Keynote Speakers on the registration page, and more speakers and participants will be added over the coming weeks. We have some exciting plans that we truly hope will make this a celebration worthy of George for everyone. We anticipate this event will prove popular and spaces are limited, so we would encourage you to take full advantage of the early bird discount rates. Look forward to meeting many of you there

Analysis of Free Surface Shape and Toss Width with a Broad-Crested Weir

A broad-crested weir is a structure that directs and regulates flow of fluids. The specific goal of this study is to measure the toss width, specifically the slope of the water as it’s tossed off of the end of the weir, at designated points on the flume as flow velocity changes. We designed our experiment to measure quantitative data using a manometer for discharge height as well as the velocity meter to measure the fluid velocity. These measurements are used to qualitatively characterize the free surface shape, recognize patterns, and compare overshoot. The toss width is the priority of our experiment, with the heights and widths of the cavitation, which is the formation of an air bubble within the flow, being measured. As the toss width is influenced heavily by upstream characteristics, we will compute the upstream Froude number, which is characterized by a ratio from inertia to gravity as dominating forces. We predict that the results will show that as fluid velocity increases, our free surface shape will become more chaotic on the outflow and that our toss width will change, specifically the air bubble formed from our weir will have a larger height and smaller width. Broad-crested weirs are commonly used in nature as a dam that regulates flow. They can be used recreationally by keeping fish populations in specific areas along a river, encouraging fishing. Studying these weirs inside of a controlled environment can give us insight into how they can be used effectively in nature.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/collaborative_presentations/1115/thumbnail.jp

“There’s theology and then there’s the people I love. . .”: Authority and Ambivalence in Seminarians’ Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Relationships, Marriage, and Ordination

Drawing from 102 in-depth interviews conducted with first-year Master of Divinity (M.Div.) students at a Mainline Protestant seminary, this paper examines how students describe and account for their positions on homosexuality, same-sex marriage, and the ordination of gay and lesbian clergy. We found that students on “both sides”—i.e., those who lean affirming and those who lean non-affirming—invoked three primary authorities in their accounts: Biblical authority, Godly authority, and the authority of lived experience, as demonstrated in the lives of gay and lesbian people. We also found that nearly one-third of the students in our sample expressed uncertainty, ambivalence, and/or contradictions in their responses. Through a close analysis of these accounts, we show that ambivalence and uncertainty are rooted in attempts to navigate and “reconcile” the pulls of these different authorities and that attitudinal certainty is often accomplished by privileging one authority over others.https://digitalcommons.snc.edu/faculty_staff_works/1065/thumbnail.jp