McComics: October 14
Below are the comic strips created by students in the communication department’s Communication and Culture course. Check back every Sunday for new comics. The images and content are used for…
Arts & Culture
McComics: October 7
Below are the comic strips created by students in the communication department’s Communication and Culture course. Check back every Sunday for new comics. The images and content are used for…
Contrast contest winner: ‘The Notes’
Congratulations to Danielle Wendt, winner of last month’s Contrast contest. Below is her submission, in which she described what happened when she found a mysterious note with her name on…
‘Saints and Sisters’ explores the expectations of theatre
“Saints and Sisters,” a series of three one-act plays written by Gertrude Stein, opens tonight at McDaniel College. Performances through Oct. 6 in Alumni Hall begin at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are…
McComics: September 30
Below are the comic strips created by students in the communication department’s Communication and Culture course. Check back every Sunday for new comics. The images and content are used for…
Contrast contest winner: ‘Into the Green Terror’
Congratulations to Maddy Lee, winner of last month’s Contrast contest. Below is her submission, in which she describes something ordinary in an unrelated genre style. It’s been over seventy-two hours…
Contrast: McDaniel’s purveyor of the literary arts
Prose, poetry, non-fiction, and the arts: four diverse categories, one eclectic group of writers. Contrast is McDaniel’s student organization for literary expression, with writing workshops, years of experience among its leaders,…
McComics: September 23
Below are the comic strips created by students in the communication department’s Communication and Culture course. Check back every Sunday for new comics. The images and content are used for…
Say ‘Bonjour’ to McDaniel’s French Film Festival
For the month of September, McDaniel College hosts the Tournées French Film Festival, a unique festival that has been going on since 2007. Silvia Baage, a professor of French in the…
McComics: September 16
Below are the comic strips created by students in the communication department’s Communication and Culture course. Check back every Sunday for new comics. The images and content are used…
McComics: Student Artist Biographies
This semester, the Free Press is excited to partner with the communication department’s Communication and Culture course, taught by Associate Professor Robert Lemieux. Each week, students create their own comic strips, which…
Dangersauce successfully completes first show of the semester, despite limited members
Despite a significant loss in numbers since last semester, returning members of Dangersauce, McDaniel’s improv comedy troupe, banded together last Friday night to put on the first show of the year in…
Free Press to partner with Contrast
The Free Press is excited to announce a new partnership with Contrast, McDaniel’s literary magazine and purveyor of the literary arts. We’ll be working closely to bring you the latest…
Westminster’s inaugural Pride Festival boasts huge turnout
Preparing for Westminster’s Pride Festival, McDaniel senior Alex Maragos was not anticipating a large event. She packed some sunscreen and an extra water bottle, but did not plan on staying…
McDaniel Allies hosts sixth annual Drag Show
The McDaniel College Gender and Sexuality Alliance, also known as Allies, hosted their sixth annual Drag Show in Decker Auditorium on April 6, 2018. The show was originally meant to…
The show must go on: The Bakkhai theater performance continues despite opening night scare
This Wednesday, the theater department revealed the opening night production of “The Bakkhai,” a Greek play written by Euripides and translated by Anne Carson. The show was the capstone project…
Graduate professor Mona Kerby overcomes challenges with self-publishing
For graduate professor and award-winning children’s book author Mona Kerby, writing was not always a passion, nor did it immediately come easily to her. “When I was growing up, I…
Dangersauce debuts first ever musical show
This semester, McDaniel’s improv comedy troupe, Dangersauce, debuted their first ever musical show. With an in-house band made up of Jehan Silva and Ben Kahn on guitar, Jake Fine on…
Alumnae poets serve as this year’s Bothe lecturers
Last Tuesday, McDaniel continued its annual poetry tradition with the 32nd B. Christopher Bothe Memorial Lecture. Alumnae poets Melissa Atkinson Mercer and Karen Meadows returned to the College to read…
“Pigments and Plastics” McDaniel art honors exhibit
On March 1, the McDaniel College Art Department had a new opening in the Rice Gallery. This exhibit, called Pigments and Plastics featured three seniors with departmental honors in their…