We DID Start the Fire: SAE to host Phoenix Fest
Couldn’t make it to Coachella or Lollapalooza? Well you’re in luck, as on March 28, Sigma Alpha Epsilon will be hosting Phoenix Fest, a music festival open to McDaniel students…
Features
IPO: Your Portal to a Global Perspective
Be prepared for more campus announcements than ever from the International Programs Office (IPO) as students are encouraged to expand their horizons through various events. Jennifer Quijano Sax, the Coordinator…
Visiting Lecturer Travels to Cuba
Imagine reestablishing ties with a nation that has been isolated from the U.S. for more than 50 years: Cuba. The relationship between Cuba and the United States has been tense for more…
VITA Tax Program Gives Back to Students
It is not uncommon to hear students complain about how their high school never prepared them to file a tax return or taught them how their taxes even work. For…
60 Seconds: Super Bowl XLIX Picks
We asked four members of the McDaniel community which team they think will win Super Bowl XLIX. Here are their predictions for the outcome of the big game. Senior Cody Shives thinks that…
Office Objects & Oddities: A Photo Essay
Have you ever wondered what kind of people your professors are outside of their teacher personas? Maybe one of them has an obsession with Willy Wonka or special chalk imported…
The Places Less Traveled: A Photo Essay
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
A Wish Come True: A Profile of Novelist Lisa Van Allen
Lisa Van Allen has been writing stories since she learned how to hold a pencil. Even before that, she would tell stories “to anyone who would listen,” she says. “I…
ACC’s Barrier-Breakdown Extravaganza
Introducing fun games like picking up skittles with chopsticks, serving bubble tea and Japanese cracker snacks, giving out cultural raffle prizes such as food box sets and educating participants about…
Finding Common Ground: Walt Michael
If you ask just about anyone at McDaniel where to find Walt Michael, they probably won’t be able to tell you. Walk into Thompson Hall, and you may get a…
Profile: Religious Studies Department
Interested in learning more about the Religious Studies Department? Look no further! Learn about the professors, classes, major and more.