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• Students Paint Luggage for Foster Children

  Foster children usually have very little to call their own, and often use trash bags to transport their few belongings, which can be embarrassing and potentially harmful to a child's self-esteem. Armed with some gently used hard-shell luggage and art supplies – all donated for a worthy cause – Capital students, faculty, staff and community members worked to give these children small, but practical, pieces of art to call their own.

• "The Laughter of the Oppressed:" Jacqueline Bussie Wins Trinity Prize for Book on Laughter Through Tears

  "My work began with a simple question prompted by Dietrich Bonhoeffer's reflections on standing in solidarity with the oppressed: Where is the theological consideration of laughter 'from below,' 'from the perspective of the outcast, the mistreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled – in short, from the perspective of those who suffer'?"

• MLK Day of Learning

  Juan Williams, above, delivered the keynote address in 2006.