Dean Violanti: First Year Dean, Apple Connoisseur
Every student at McDaniel, at some point or another, has encountered a passionate athlete. An apple connoisseur. A horror movie lover. Dean Violanti is all of these and more. Dean…
2014
Diminishing Face-to-Face Contact with Professors Potentially Threatens Student-Teacher Interactions
Once upon a time, meeting with teachers or professors required interpersonal communication between students and their educators. Today, we rely heavily on the convenience of our technology, which has led…
Personal Foul: Gender and the NFL
Over the past few months the National Football League has been under intense scrutiny. A series of domestic violence disputes have led many to question the NFL’s stance on women’s…
A New (Cool) First Stop: The First Stop Office
First year and transfer students are enjoying the First Stop Office, where they can freely come in and ask for help whenever they need it. Dr. Karen Violanti – better known…
Hopkins Squeezes Out a Win Over McDaniel
On October 29, the McDaniel Green Terror volleyball team took on the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays, in what has been historically always been one of their toughest match ups. The…
“Blank Space” Reactions Prompt Lesson in Media Literacy
We all saw it – the avalanche of news-feed clogging reactions to Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” video. Interestingly enough, the public seems unable to reach a consensus, with some reactions…
Greenstream: A Solution to Boredom and Bandwidth Constraints
Step aside, Netflix. Greenstream is here and ready to stream movies for free! There is a new video streaming service McDaniel called the Greenstream. Many students, however, seem relatively unfamiliar…
French Week: Sidewalk Chalk Competition
The Lighter Side of Campus Safety
It seems normalcy has again returned to the semi-peaceful campus of McDaniel, with no major alerts or serious incidents in the past few weeks. Now it’s all smooth sailing, with…
Common Ground Hosts Banjo Legend Tony Trischka
Imagine your American history class coming to life with unusual instruments, sing-alongs, and a Beatles medley. Tony Trischka’s two-hour banjo concert on Nov. 1 included all of these and more….
Second Round of Fall Intramurals Underway
The grand prize is only a t-shirt, but the players who compete for it in McDaniel’s intramural sports take it very seriously. Last week in Old Gill Gym saw the…
Director of Campus Safety Mike Webster to Retire
Mike Webster, Director of McDaniel College’s Department of Campus Safety, has decided to retire at the end of 2014 according to an email sent by Beth Gerl to all McDaniel…
Defining Consent on College Campuses and at McDaniel College
Can you guess what Princeton, Harvard and Dartmouth all have in common? If you guessed that they’re all Ivy League colleges, you’re correct. If you guessed that they are among…
A Fact Check on Yik Yak
The McDaniel Free Press was lucky enough to recently interview Cameron Mullen, a representative from Yik Yak, the app sweeping McDaniel and colleges across the country. In the interview, special…
What Defines A Hipster?
The hipster movement originated in the 1990s, when millennials began to move to urban areas. At McDaniel College, there are many students from a plethora of different backgrounds, and array…
A New Perspective: A Profile of McDaniel’s Foreign Language Houses
To provide more options to students studying languages here at McDaniel, the foreign language department maintains language houses in Arabic, French, German and Spanish. Every year, native speakers of each…
McDaniel’s Secret Garden: A Hidden Gem
Students at McDaniel might think they know every single location on campus, but when you ask students about the location of McDaniel’s garden, most of the responses are along the…
Halloween Photo Essay
Many parts of McDaniel’s campus were decorated for Halloween. Staff and students alike dressed in costumes. Clubs sponsored events to celebrate Halloween
The Lighter Side of Campus Safety
Well guys, Homecoming week was as crazy and rambunctious as ever, and now that the dust has settled, we gaze upon a whole pile of wreckage and some incredibly awful…
Students’ Sexual Assault Awareness Project Gains Traction
In the spring of last year, Leigh Brownell and Taylor Niemetz started their “Love Project,” a poster series about sexual assault that culminated in a display located in Ensor Lounge…