McDaniel College Budapest is in its third week of the new semester, and recent changes regarding the satellite campus in Hungary are underway. One of these is the welcoming of more American students, from…
McDaniel College President Roger Casey is looking forward to significant transformations that multiple areas of the institution will see beginning this school year. These sweeping changes include updates to the school’s brand,…
It is tradition here at the Free Press to kick off every school year with a welcome issue. Here’s a look at the paper’s (then called The Phoenix) welcome issue…
On behalf of our editorial team and writing staff at the Free Press, we’d like to officially welcome all McDaniel students to the Fall 2018 semester! As both of us are…
What is your preferred name? Grace What is your major and minor? Business Administration and Accounting Economics with a minor in French What are some of the jobs you held…
What is your preferred name? Katy What is your major and minor? English major with Writing and Sociology minors. What are some of the jobs you held while at McDaniel? Writing…
What is your preferred name? Allison What is your major and minor? I’m an Environmental Biology major with a minor in French. What are some of the jobs you held…
What is your preferred name? Sarah What is your major and minor? English and Cinema majors and a Business Administration minor What are some of the jobs you held while…
On a chilly snow day this semester, Svetlana Bochkova sat on her bed in her Pennsylvania Avenue house, writing an essay for one of her classes. She was thankful for…
For half of McDaniel’s Spring 2018 semester, junior Connor Hare shared photos and videos of Budapest, Hungary – the location of the College’s Europe campus where he was registered to…
Last week, Marvel Studios released its latest and highly-anticipated film “Black Panther.” The superhero film drew widespread attention and gave the studio its biggest opening week at the box office thanks to…
On Westminster’s Main Street, three brick buildings — each a former upper-class home at least two centuries old — house the Historical Society of Carroll County. Inside, staff at the…
Across the country, a new type of housing at colleges and universities is gaining popularity. For most colleges in the U.S., co-ed floors in residence halls—where genders are often split…
You’ve done it: moved in, tackled your first classes. Though most of the heavy lifting is over, it can still be a challenge to navigate the first few weeks of…
The McDaniel College Choir’s thirty-nine members processed through the aisles of Baker Memorial Chapel at the beginning of the night on Sunday, April 23, making their way to the open…
Squirrels are a common sight at McDaniel College: clandestinely rustling in the ivy patches outside of Hill Hall, sipping from the fountain in plain view of Physical Plant workers, fearlessly…
“I just don’t know what’s going to happen to me when I step through.” These are the words of sophomore Marty Jones as he stands in the library lobby, glancing…
Each weekday at the start of lunch, Bobbie Pfeiffer stands ready at her salad station in the corner of Englar Dining Hall. Students start to line up, ordering their salads—perhaps…
As a society in the past century, we’ve made so much progress socially, politically, and intellectually. So why is still commonplace to see litter on the street nearly everywhere you…
The Englar Dining Hall: it’s at the heart of campus, it’s open for every (well, most) meals, and its hallowed nickname Glar is part of the McDaniel vernacular. That said,…