Siriki Diabate: Life of a former refugee
“One spring 2005, I was arrested by three unidentified persons who beat me and left me unconscious. I was saved by an American friend. He said ‘Leave, Siriki, because the…
Arts & Culture
Dangersauce performs “First Show, Worst Show”
McDaniel’s improv comedy group, Dangersauce, kicked off the semester last Friday night with “First Show, Worst Show” in Big Baker. Hosted by Camden Ostrander, Dangersauce entertained a full audience with…
Africa’s Legacy hosts 8th annual dinner
On Thursday Nov. 16, Africa’s Legacy held their eighth annual dinner, a night of fun, food, and performances. There was an enthusiastic energy to the room the entire night, with…
Piscataway Indian nation gives a tribal tribute
“There’s tribes all across the United States, but when you walk down the streets, how many American Indians do you see? We are not extinct. For we have survived and…
McDaniel Theater performs “Carrie: The Musical”
McDaniel’s Theater Arts Department is back for the second show of the semester, “Carrie: The Musical.” The show was directed by Josh Selzer, an alumnus and art director of McDaniel College,…
20,000 leagues above my expectations
“Justice League” is the comic-bookest comic book movie I’ve ever seen. There are boomtubes and motherboxes and parademons, beautiful Jack Kirby nonsense. There’s Aquaman, chugging whiskey in slow motion while…
Local artists host annual Carroll County Artists’ Studio Tour
This week, past and current McDaniel students, faculty, and professors, as well as Carroll County community members and residents will all come together to celebrate the joys of art and…
Writer of the Week: Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda is one of the most, if not the most, influential figures of poetry in the twentieth century. Even from a young age, his raw passion for poetry is…
McDaniel to host Holiday Light Show
Nothing kicks off the holiday season better than driving around seeing red, green, and blue lights. This year, to celebrate the holiday season McDaniel will be hosting its first Holiday…
McDaniel College art department visits art galleries in New York City
On Nov. 4, the McDaniel College Art Department went on their biannual field trip to New York City. Each semester, two buses pick up the attending students and faculty and…
Giving back: The power of music
Every Thursday night a crowd of close to 45 students surrounds two musicians in the Gazebo. Simultaneously, a brisk autumn wind dashes by, snatching up a blend of laughter, singing…
McDaniel College Gender & Sexuality Alliance hosts Chase Ross
On Nov. 7, the McDaniel College Gender & Sexuality Alliance brought trans activist and YouTuber Chase Ross to campus. On his channel, uppercaseCHASE1, Ross makes videos about his experiences as a trans man,…
Sheikh Faruq Post: “Islam is Life, Islam is Freedom”
“No one can deny the fact that Islam is very much in the spotlight today,” said Sheikh Faruq Post, Imam of the Islamic Society of Western Maryland. On Tuesday, Oct….
HLA’s Quinceañera Dinner
2017 has truly been an eventful year for the HLA club. Earlier this spring, they officially changed their name from Hispanic-Latino Alliance to Hispanic-LatinX Alliance in order to be more…
McDaniel Art & Art History Department hosts guest lecture by Nikki Painter
On Oct. 5, 2017, McDaniel College Art Department welcomed visiting artist Nikki Painter to talk about her work. During her lecture, as she described her artistic journey, although she quickly…
McDaniel Theater performs “A Streetcar Named Desire”
The McDaniel College theater department has just finished its run of the Fall 2017 play: Tennessee Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire,” directed by Professor Gené Fouché. The show ran from…
ACC hosts Chuseok celebration
On Friday Oct. 6, the Asian Community Coalition hosted their second annual Chuseok, or Korean Thanksgiving. This year the event fell on the third day of the Chuseok celebration. The…
Jared Reck: From teacher to novelist
On the most important day of his career so far, first-time author Jared Reck was still assigned to lunch duty, watching eighth grade boys compare armpit hair to see who…
“Truthwitch” by Susan Dennard
“Truthwitch” is the first book in Susan Dennard’s young adult high fantasy series The Witchlands, titled after the name of the fictional land in which it takes place. In the…
Writer of the Week: Gwendolyn Brooks
There are few poets more renowned in the twentieth century than Gwendolyn Brooks. Her parents experienced a classic love story: her father was a janitor that gave up a life…