On-campus water tower gets a facelift over winter break
This semester, Students were greeted back to the Hill by a facelift to the iconic water tower on campus, featuring the freshly painted phrase, “Welcome to the Hill” along with…
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2nd annual ‘I Love the Hill Day’ surpasses donor goal
Tuesday, Feb. 25 marked the second year of I Love the Hill Day. This day is a celebration of McDaniel, as well as a day of giving intended to encourage…
Alumni: McDaniel’s legacy, history, and future
Through McDaniel College’s Student Alumni Council, the school’s graduates come back to work with students who share their interests and former majors. Now, the Class of 2015’s Erin Giles hopes to create the…
Amy Latta ’02 turns hobby blog into sell-out hand lettering book
Amy Davidson Latta has been writing as much as you would expect an English major to be. Maybe more. She’s also put her minor in education to good use. The…
Jonathan Slade: A Model Alumnus and Professor
Jonathan Slade, the chair of the communication and cinema department, six-time Emmy award winner, and McDaniel alumnus, is a man you want to get to know. Slade grew up here…
Surf – Travel – Learn: Study abroad with a McDaniel Alum and Surf Tourism Doctor
Studying abroad might not change ‘the world,’ but it might very well change yours. I know it changed mine. I believe for the better. To be candid, when I was…
A Minty-Fresh Start to the Year with the Student Alumni Council
About 150 students attended the Student Alumni Council’s first Mug Event of the year outside of Glar earlier this month. “Mug events are fun, on top of giving you an…
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…
McDaniel Receives Million Dollar Donation
Recently, McDaniel College has come into a large sum of money, approximately a $6.7 million donation from alumnus Phillip Henry Dorsey. Phillip Henry Dorsey was part of the 1891 graduating…
Remembering six decades of passed alumni
On Thursday September 27, the McDaniel Student Alumni Council gathered to remember McDaniel alumni who have passed away. Six candles rest on the bell’s podium, one to represent each decade….
For Some McDaniel is a Family Tradition
“It was nice to come here and have connections and people I already knew, it was comforting,” said Cole. Though McDaniel College has other sets of siblings in attendance, the…
The Current Outlook: From the Director of the Program & the President of Honors
Dr. Stephanie Madsen, Chair of the Psychology Department, claims to have the “best job on campus.” Not only does she get to oversee a good population of the student community…
Poetic Homecoming: Alum Jim Minick does poetry reading at McDaniel
The atmosphere in the Richwine room was ideal for Jim Minick’s poetry reading. The sunlight streaming through the curtains and onto the friendly faces in the room created an environment…
Death of recent alumni
On Sunday, September 11 the Free Press staff and McDaniel College community was informed of the untimely death of McDaniel alum Kenneth Jackson Polk, a 2011 graduate, after a fatal…