Student Run Newspaper for McPherson College
By: Daryn J. Stack Former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is known for saying, “There is not a snowball’s chance in hell that Canada would ever become the 51st state.” However, as tensions between the United States and Canada continue to escalate, that snowball seems more likely than previously imagined. WEXIT, the Western Canadian separatist…
By: Cameron Moore Ramadan for 2025 began around February 28th and is expected to last for 29 to 30 days, ending around March 30th. So, what exactly is Ramadan, and why is it celebrated worldwide? Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Its beginning is marked by the sighting of the crescent moon,…
By: Blake Storts In October 1995, in Franklin County, Kansas, Albert J. Daniels set out for a typical fall hunt of whitetail. The area he was set up in wasn’t for producing big bucks but in a county near Franklin County was where the old state record was harvested. In an interview about the hunt,…
By: Aidan Montoya In what I’d call one of the worst airplane crashes of a generation, an astounding 67 people were killed in a plane crash on Jan. 29 over the Potomac River in Washington, DC. An American Airlines flight originating out of Wichita, Kansas collided with a mid-air army helicopter, killing everyone on both…
By: Tayton Ornelas For as long as people have known, interterm was well known here on the McPherson College campus. Students would return from winter break in the first week of January and take a three-week class, concluding in the last week of January. An entire semester of a course was condensed in just three…
by Kaycee Carter On February 4, teachers in the McPherson USD 418 school district received an email requesting that they remove all copies of “Flight of the Puffin” by Ann Braden from their classrooms. Specifically, the email stated, “this book should remain in adult hands until further feedback.” This is the first time a book…
By DJ Stack As of today, President Donald Trump has made his pics for the key cabinet positions public that will help him in his second term and shape his administration with a mix of loyalists, controversial individuals, and conservative figures. Among the most notable and controversial picks, is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the…
by Claire McCullough It is typical for a president to issue a flurry of executive orders and they usually revoke policies from the previous administration, hoping to make an impact on the country when they first arrive. The newly elected President Trump is currently doing just that. Many of President Trump’s executive orders, especially those…
by Vanessa Hofer Keiran President, the Director of Tennis Operations at McPherson College, is known not only by his players on the tennis team but also by many student athletes from different sports. Thus, the newsflash of President leaving McPherson College, and the position as the Director of Tennis Operations, surprised more people than just…
by Aidan Montoya At McPherson College, teachers like to use a website called Turn It In, to check student’s homework for plagiarism and/or the use of AI. Turnitin is a web-based program that checks papers for plagiarism. It works by comparing the student’s work to a large database and is a tool that is used…