Student Run Newspaper for McPherson College
By: Toni Snyder The Diamond Dog Spirit Squad closes its 2017-18 season with the announcement of new head coach Ashlee Annis! Annis istransferring to McPherson College from previously coaching our across town rivals, the Tigers of Central Christian College. Ashlee has an impressive background in cheerleading…
By: Logan Hartman Amanda Connell is a Music and Business major and also a member of the softball team here at McPherson College. Connell grew up in Wichita, Kansas and is a graduate of circle high school in Towanda, Kansas. Connell first fell in love with baseball and softball when she was younger and…
By: Greg Roller On Wednesday April 11th the Newton Public Library came to McPherson College to give a lecture on fake news. Fake news is something that is spread like wildfire around social media. This lecture helped students recognize fake news, and ways to find out if the article has any credibility. The lecture was…
By Tyler Dunn Graduation is upon us, and with this time comes many changes. Sports players playing their final games or clubs electing new leaders, this period comes with constant change and transitions. Many people get caught up in the stress of these last few moments, and the school starts advertising de-stressing events, but the…
by Andrew Tanner Car: 1993 GMC Sierra Owner: Leighton Swearingen, Junior If you were to venture out into the storage units at Mustang Properties just across Baer Street from the college, you would find a vast assortment of student-owned vehicles in varying states of repair. These cars range from fully restored, to fully disassembled. One…
By: Taylor Cunningham On Thursday, April 19th, 2018, the Student Government Association held elections for the following school year. An email was sent to all students with a link to vote. SGA elections closed Thursday night, and Advisor Ben Coffey sent an email out with results around 9 p.m. SGA has been restructured for next…
By: Armond McCray This month the McPherson College football team has been hit with some pretty surprising news about one of their staff members. It has been confirmed that Coach Peterson, the defensive coordinator, has resigned from the team. That’s right Coach Peterson has decided to leave McPherson College and has actually taken a new…
By Tyler Dunn McPherson College has reached that point in the year where new RAs have been hired. It was a long process with criteria in place to ensure that every hire is someone that will positively impact those that will come to them. They are the people that we come to in our time…
By: Deiah Curtis This past Wednesday, April 18th, McPherson College was booming with brilliance of all different types of talents, and boy was it a talented night. SAB (student activities board) hosted the annual campus competition ‘McPherson’s Got Talent’ for all faculty, staff and student body to compete in. With nine acts to get through,…
By Tina Payne For interterm 2018, a small group of education students, including myself, boarded a train around three in the morning to travel to the beautiful city of Chicago. Vicki Schmidt and April Counts accompanied Reven Bradbury, Aida Sandoval, Juliana Munoz, Stevie Stockham and me. The purpose of this trip was to complete our…