Meditation can lower blood pressure, improve blood circulation, and lower heart rate. So why isn’t it a part of everyone’s daily routine? Meditation has many different names and has been practiced…
More than 40 students and community members gathered in Red Square at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 11, 2019 for the College’s second annual Take Back the Night walk. The walk was…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
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 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…