Tigist Yifraw, a third-year Political Science undergraduate is suing Eastern-Occidental University, a small private liberal arts college, for years of personal pain and suffering. The affair started out as a complaint Tigist filed with the student-teacher affairs committee for what she claimed was the repeated use of an offensive term in a lecture. The lecture…
Month: January 2022
Amharic Spelling Bee Champion awarded $500
An 11-year-old from the small town of Anbi Tolo, in the Western Ethiopian region, won $500 as the national champion in the competitive national Spelling Bee competitions. The contest took place at Sheraton Hotel in Addis Ababa (ሰኞ, መጋቢት 26 2014). The final three contestants battled to spell the Amharic word for “fact” (haq). Two…