Human rights, a nonpartisan issue
Somehow, in the short time that human rights have been truly established, they have become a partisan issue all around the world, and from my point of view, a particularly…
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Interfaith prayer room opens on campus
Students, faculty, and staff gathered together to celebrate the opening of McDaniel’s new interfaith prayer room on Tuesday, April 9, 2019. Sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the…
McDaniel students, faculty, and staff honored at third annual Phenomenal Woman Awards Banquet
On Wednesday, March 27, the third annual Phenomenal Woman Awards Banquet was held to celebrate the accomplishments of women at the College. Over 25 female students, faculty, and staff were nominated for…
Stop the single-use plastic bottle pollution
According to a 2017 report from The Guardian, 1 million plastic water bottles are purchased world-wide every minute. That’s expected to jump another 20 percent in the next two years….
Cornel West gives lecture at Alumni Hall
On March 29, political activist Cornel West visited McDaniel College’s WMC Alumni Hall for the College’s annual Ira G. Zepp, Jr. Memorial Lecture. Ira Zepp, who passed away in 2009, was a…
Annual United event to take place Friday
This Friday, April 12, the annual United event will be taking place once more. United is a showcase of the cultural and ethnic organizations of the campus, this year comprised…
Manny Ruiz, Ph.D., making impact with CEO as director of student development programming
Director of Student Development Programming Manny Ruiz, Ph.D., joined the Center for Experience and Opportunity last October. Now in his first full semester on the Hill, he’s already made a lasting…
Second annual Take Back the Night walk on April 11
For the second year in a row, the McDaniel community will hear the stories of survivors of sexual violence and take back the night with hundreds of other colleges and universities in…
Nature is calling — will AVI answer?
Every student’s McDaniel College experience would not be complete without Englar Dining Hall. Whether it be Chicken Tender Thursday, or playing “Guess That Meat!” with the soup du jour, or…
President Casey cites Free Press articles in email announcements, speeches, personal conversations
Since October 2018, the Free Press has published several articles surrounding the recent academic restructuring announcement and the process that led to the changes. President Casey, on multiple occasions, has…
McHoroscopes: Daily doses
Aries (March 21-April 19): Today will be many things for you. Painless and blood-free are not some of those things. Taurus (April 20-May 20): You really overreacted with that spider yesterday,…
Student complains about assignment, had ample time to finish it over break
Remy Travers, a sophomore political science major, has a 15-page research paper due tomorrow, and he needs everyone to know that. “I’m very busy,” he said, when asked about how…
Lean mean grilling machine promoter George Foreman announced as College grill master
AVI Foodsystems announced over Spring Break that the grill station in Englar Dining Hall would now be operated by George Foreman, former heavyweight boxer and lean mean grilling machine promoter….
McDaniel student practices necromancy; accidentally revives old Green Terror mascot
On a cold March morning, about the time when the sun rises and procrastinating students promise themselves they’ll “just take a ten minute nap before starting that paper,” one McDaniel…
Local squirrel rallies cicadas under banner to terrorize campus
It’s no secret that McDaniel is home to an abundance of squirrels. They’ve managed to coexist peacefully—for the most part—with students for more than a century, occasionally earning degrees and…
Bustling job fair attracts McDaniel professors
The Forum was filled to capacity last week at McDaniel’s spring job fair, which recruiters say not only drew students, but their professors. Teddy “Ted” Edwards of Random House was surprised…
College turns to necromancy to collect debt from dead students
In the face of recent budgeting problems, McDaniel has begun looking into a number of unorthodox methods of gathering funding. After selling squirrel hunting licenses and harvesting student kidneys failed…
McDaniel’s sports teams receive more funding
McDaniel College has taken its new profits and decided to spread the wealth back to the sport teams on the Hill. “We realized that it’s nearly been a whole year…
Feed me, Seymour: College to cut more programs
McDaniel College has announced that still more majors will be suspended. In addition to the departments that have been cut, it has been announced that majors in the kinesiology, psychology,…
SGA does something right, entire world in disbelief
In an unprecedented shift in campus culture, the Student Government Association has done something that anyone might deem to be the right thing to do. That something, according to one…