Police Dept Identify Hit-and-Run Suspect
Kate Delenick Co Editor-in-Chief The Westminster Police Department has identified 29 year-old, Shawron Gabriel Bibbs as the man responsible for the hit and run crash that resulted in the death…
February 2009
Lighter side of the Campus Safety Blotter: Students Living the 'High Life'
(Editor’s Note: This column by Jen Noel is dedicated to some of the most inane calls to which Campus Safety officers respond ? or should respond. Incidents actually occurred, but…
CATS Adds Shuttle Stop to McDaniel
Katie Smith Staff Reporter Despite McDaniel’s no-pet policy in the dorms, CATS can now be found on campus. The Carroll Area Transit System (CATS) has added a stop to its…
Airborne All the Way: ROTC Students Jump from Airplanes
John Wahman Staff Reporter Every summer several McDaniel Cadets step foot at Fort Benning Georgia ready to take on the massive task of learning how to safely jump out of…
Email Scams scaring Students and Faculty
Danielle Azoulay Staff Reporter “Please verify your mcdaniel.edu email account,” is one of the various subject lines of several dangerous emails circulating around campus. With sender addresses like “Admin Helpdesk”…
Need some cash fast? just Pawn your stuff
Jen Noel Staff Reporter Jewelry, iPods, guitars, laptops, power tools, cameras, amps, vacuums, televisions, and even sabers are just a few things you can find at Carroll County Jewelry and…
Cameroon Shifts Students’ Perspective on Africa
Clayton Rosa Staff Reporter If the Africa we know comes from the representations streaming through our radios and news mediums, then Africa can be generalized in few words: famine, disease,…
Vance Vaults Obama to White House, and Relishes in Many Inaugural Celebrations
Kate Maloney Staff Reporter Ten thousand people applied to become an Obama Organizing Fellow last spring. Thirteen hundred were accepted ? only 150 from Michigan. Our own Amelia Vance was…
Study Abroad Sees Record High
Casey Crough Staff Reporter “I want to see as much of the world as possible before I die,” said Jason Norton ’09, a senior who represents one of 20 students…
*I luv u*: Texting Becoming a Technological Courtship
Samantha Lambert Staff Reporter It seems that there is a rising technological epidemic in the world today: text messaging. People, young and old, are using text messaging as an actual…
Seventy Students Transfer to Mcdaniel to be Closer to Home
Rose Eney Staff Reporter It may come as a surprise to many McDaniel students that an average of 70 students per year transfer to our school. So why do they…
The Beatles’ Fireman: Paul McCartney
Brent Lowe Staff Reporter Paul McCartney’s new CD, “Electric Arguments” combines the ex-Beatles’ classic style with more instrument heavy pieces that gives it an all new sound without losing that…
McDaniel Horoscopes
Not-So-Astrologically-Inspired Horoscopes Jen Noel and Kris Breeden Staff Reporters Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): He’s just not that into you? Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): You are a dear soul. You put…
From Life of the Party to Barely Clinging to Life
Joey Steinberg Staff Reporter It’s a Saturday night and you decide you are going to go to a party. The drinks are free so you try to get as much…
Academy Awards: Best Picture Round-Up 2008
Katelynn McGinley Staff Reporter The Academy Awards are just around the corner, in case you’ve forgotten that Brad Pitt has actually been doing things with his life other than raising…
Can't Go Abroad? On Campus Jan Term Worthwhile, Too
Andrew Velnoskey Staff Reporter Jan Term is a special time at McDaniel College. It allows students to explore things outside what regular semester classes teach. This year, the school offered…
Obama’s First Presidential Moves Cause Bipartisan Controversies
Angela Baldwin Staff Reporter President Barack Obama’s Inauguration was a historical moment in history that I was glad to have witnessed. I’ll admit I was curious to see what he…
McCribs: The Best and Worst of Dorm Life
Nick Brunner Staff Reporter For years, hearing Blanche Ward Hall called at the annual housing lottery sent shivers down the spines of students. The thought alone brought to mind images…
Basketball Women Press Ahead in Playoffs
Chris Ferrick-Manley Staff Reporter The Green Terror Women’s basketball team (13-10, 11-6 in Centennial Conference play) will extend their conference leading streak of playoff appearances to eight with a win…
Men’s BasketBall is ‘Ready to Go’ for Playoffs
Ryan Chell Staff Reporter This year’s McDaniel men’s basketball team has had the marks of a great season on the hardwood, as evidenced by several milestones in the program’s history,…