Student Run Newspaper for McPherson College
By Michael Dudley A couple of weeks ago I came to campus to grab a few things out of my office and check the mail. As I walked over to the union, it struck me how quiet it was. I was literally the only person on what typically would be a day of students, faculty,…
By Marcus Fernandes It all started with an extended spring break. Who would not like that? In a normal situation, every student in the world would be happy. That was not the case for March 2020. At that point, an extended spring break was showing me that the Coronavirus was a simple flu coming from…
By Julia Largent When I first heard we were moving to remote learning, I was both stressed and relived. Stressed because I’ve only ever taken online courses, not taught online. Relieved because I believed it was the appropriate thing to do for the safety of our campus. Even though I was immensely sad the last…
By Joe Isaacson I took the two weeks of spring break to just relax my body and mind. It was still kind of a shock to hear that the college was actually going through with moving everything online. During those two weeks of spring break, I was able to catch up on a lot of…
By Cali Godwin My quarantine has been somewhat of a rollercoaster. I’ve had my good days, but I’ve also had my bad and stressful days. Since I was able to leave the dorms, my fiancé met me in Denver to take me to him hometown of Cody, Wyoming. Being in Cody was tough at first….
By Raegan Kleppe Shannon Lorance is a respiratory therapist that works at Texoma Medical Center in Sherman, Texas. She became a respiratory therapist in 1994 when she graduated from Collin County Community College in McKinney, Texas. Before college she went to McKinney High School and graduated from there in 1992. Lorance decided she wanted to…
By David Ross This virus has affected everybody in different ways. For me, it gave me a different perspective on time. There are 24 hours in a day. We all know that, but once you sit back with no real obligations and think about all the possible outcomes, you view time differently. I’ve been doing…
By Mason Duffey The coronavirus has affected everyone here in the United States, and nearly everyone across the globe. Local, state and federal government has enforced changes on how everyday life is to be run. In some places, such as California, a state-wide lockdown was issued. In other places, local governments encouraged citizens to stay…
By Duce Chairs Ever since this quarantine started to happen around the world, it started to affect people badly to where even their jobs were shutting down due to the virus. Lucky for me, I started to work and I’m lucky to even say that with the chaos going on in the world. Overall, this…
By Raegan Kleppe The Coronavirus started in December of 2019 in Wuhan, China and it eventually started spreading to other countries in January of 2020. It reached the United States in February of 2020 and has rapidly spread since then and it only seems to be getting worse. That is why there has now been…