Student Run Newspaper for McPherson College
By: Claire McCullough According to SciTech Daily, Brachychphalus dacnis, also known as the Flea Toad, has recently been discovered in Brazil. According to Dustin Wilgers, a McPherson College biology professor, the toad’s genus, first part of the Latin name, means “short-headed or flat-faced”. The toad’s species name, second part of the Latin name, also means…
By: Tara Feeney A new abortion clinic was recently opened in the small college town of Pittsburg, Kansas. The clinic is one of four Planned Parenthood Great Plains locations in the state. Kansas is one of the only states in the Midwest region in which abortion is legal with no restrictions or bans. In August…
By: Claire McCullough Kendric Lamar took the internet by storm when released his single “Not Like Us” earlier this year and has remained in the public eye ever since. According to Forbes’s Huge McIntyre, states that the song has been the Billboard’s rap song with the largest number of listens for twenty nonconsecutive weeks and is tied with…
By: Tate Orneals On Jan 1. of 2025, the food tax in Kansas will be at 0%. An article written by the NYC Food Policy discusses the food tax in Kansas has been on the decrease since 2023. In just one year the food tax went from 6.5% to 4%. This bill is believed to help those…
By: Tate Ornelas Hurricane Milton was named the second most intense storm to ever hit the gulf coast, behind Hurricane Rita in 2005. Hurricane Milton hit Florida directly, only a short time after Hurricane Helene made its way through the United States. Before becoming a Hurricane on Oct 7, Milton was a tropical disturbance in…
By: Amanda Nagy The 2024 Presidential Election has become one of the most influential political events of the twenty-first century. For quite some time, politics has been a divisive topic, however, this division has increased with the most recent election season. Generation Z in particular has been incredibly active, discussing politics on social media and…
By: Tate Ornelas Over the weekend, Hurricane Oscar made landfall. It had a very slim chance of going from a tropical disturbance to a hurricane, but it beat the odds and reached hurricane strength. CBS News reported that Hurricane Oscar hit Great Iguana Island and continued to move along to hit parts of Cuba later that night. Unfortunately, the…
By: Daryn J. Stack November 5 was an election day to remember. Donald Trump won the presidential election by receiving 312 electoral votes to Kamala Harris’s 226. This comes as a surprise to many as a lot of recent polls showed that the race was projected to be close with many predictions in favor of…
By Tayton Ornelas Hurricane Milton was named the second most intense storm to ever hit the gulf coast, behind Hurricane Rita in 2005. Hurricane Milton hit Florida directly, only a short time after Hurricane Helene made its way through the United States. Before becoming a Hurricane on Oct 7, Milton was a tropical disturbance in…
By Joseph Gonzales Field of Screams was founded in 1993 in Mountville, Pennsylvania but the Wichita, Kansas location has been open since 2004. Field of Screams is a unique haunted house that has multiple different scare houses along with walk through corn fields. It opens up every year around September 20 and closes around November…