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(Editor’s Note: This column by Jen Noel is dedicated to some of the most inane calls to which Campus Safety officers respond ? or should respond. Incidents actually occurred, but…

Casey Crough Staff Reporter Are the students of McDaniel College really getting a liberal arts education? Is there a way to test their critical thinking skills? These questions can be…

(Editor’s Note: The following essay, originally titled “Brotherhood,” was submitted in a first year English course to fulfill a Comparison and Contrast essay assignment.) Dane Koontz Featured Writer There is…

When it turned 11:00 p.m. ET, as the polls in California closed, Barack Obama became the president-elect of the United States of America. The country, the nation, indeed the world…

Andrew Velnoskey The 2008 election, having dominated news coverage for over a year and polarized the public for the past couple months, has finally ended. It was a historic election-…

Jen Noel Staff Reporter Epic movies inspire the hero in all of us. Most of us leave our dreams of becoming a superhero like Batman to a blockbuster Halloween costume….

Casey Crough Staff Reporter “War Freed Slaves, Saved Jews”, “Imagine War”, “Imagine Peace”, “God Bless the Military and Their Just Mission”, “Peace is Patriotic”, “Give War a Chance”, “Vote for…

Jen Noel Staff Reporter In the past three weeks, two separate, unrelated incidents of sexual assault have been reported on campus. On October 5, a student filed a report with…

Katelynn McGinley Staff Reporter Lately, it seems that everywhere you look; there is evidence of someone or something going green. The 90’s may have been all about excess and extravagance,…

Kate Maloney Staff reporter It had been raining practically non-stop the entire day and the sky was an empty, isolating gray. The campus was noticeably quiet for a Friday night…

Colleen McCarrick Staff Reporter Campaigning is over, votes have been cast and the winners decided. After a highly unusual election process, the McDaniel College Freshmen Class President was declared to…

Jen Noel Staff Reporter (Editor’s Note: This column by Jen Noel is dedicated to some of the most inane calls to which Campus Safety officers respond ? or should respond….

Roxanne Fleischer News Co-Editor On September 10 Campus Safety sent out an email describing a man that a non-student woman had been car-jacked in the area of Union Street and…

Christina Hinkle Staff Reporter In recent weeks, there has been a lot of news coverage and controversy over what is being called the “Economic crisis of 2008.” This has not…

Roxanne Fleischer News Co-Editor Two separate incidents on the weekend of September 20 lead to eventual arrests. The first incident occurred at around 7:15 p.m. on Saturday September 20. Two…

Christina Hinkle Staff Reporter According to a CNN report, out of the 24 million 18- to 24-year-olds eligible to vote in the 2000 election, only 36% actually did. With growing…

Angela Baldwin Staff Reporter Nicole Robbins has become the new advisor for McDaniel’s yearbook Pathways, replacing Susan Cullison. While there have been some changes to the yearbook, most of it…

Brent Lowe Staff Reporter The sale of Clove cigarettes is prohibited in Maryland, but what are they and why have they been seen so consistently on campus? Clove cigarettes are…

Kris Breeden Staff Reporter Though more than 130 colleges have joined a “reconsider the drinking age” initiative, McDaniel College has opted to tackle concerns about alcohol abuse through other routes….

Danielle Azoulay Staff Reporter Having a car on campus just got more expensive. Not only are gas prices rising, but so is the price to park at McDaniel College. The…