Student Run Newspaper for McPherson College
By Chloe Jones In my time at McPherson College in the past year and a half, the campus store has been an elusive and mysterious place. Many things have changed, and many things are yet to be changed. During orientation, all of the freshman (including myself) were taken downstairs in the Student Union to…
with Mason Duffey Sometimes a bad situation can turn into quite the happy accident, as is the case in the story of student Dakota Logan and his 1984 Chevrolet K10 truck. While driving to work one day last semester, Logan’s 2005 Silverado broke down on the road. Not taking long to diagnose, he realized…
By: Alex Polakow Nothing in the modern time is a more divisive piece of clothing than the MAGA hat. Everyone knows what it is: the red hats and white lettering saying “Make America Great Again.” Most people have a visceral reaction to the saying, and the media is constantly talking about the racist undertones and people…
By Mason Duffey If you took a walk over to “The Sheds” where the restoration students house their projects, you might notice a thing or two about a lot of the cars. Many of the students’ projects are muscle cars and trucks, typically a Ford or a GM product. Every now then, you might just…
By: Tomi Simmons Recently, Beto O’Rourke has put up his campaign for the 2020 Presidential Election. He is the candidate we need for this upcoming election; not just because he would make a great president, but because he is going to change the way political campaigns are run. Beto is the 2020 grassroots candidate. These…
By: Mason Duffey Former Congressman Beto O’Rourke has caught a lot of attention in the past year running against Ted Cruz for the Texas senate seat, where he lost by only 200,000 votes. This election helped boost him into the national spotlight. Recently, O’Rourke decided to run for president in the 2020 election. Many democrats…
By: Alex Polakow This past Saturday at CPAC, President Trump announced what can be seen by everyone as an unequivocal good. He announced a proposed executive order to promote freedom of speech on college campuses. This comes in the wake of the incident at UC Berkeley in which a recruiter for a conservative group was punched…
By: Karlie Sneed There has been debate for years whether or not student athletes should be allowed to sign a Letter of Intent (LOI) before high school. I am here to say I don’t think any athlete that is in 8thgrade or lower should be able to sign a LOI for an NAIA college. Personally,…
Cody Baumgartner True or false: the benefits of preventing disease with a vaccine far outweigh the risks. The answer: true. Now, we all have heard the controversy whether vaccines are reliable or untrustworthy, but have you scavenged through information to find hard facts to support either claim? Perhaps not. Bottom line is vaccines save lives….
By: Antonio Snyder McPherson College has a hot new book floating around campus, Collateral Bodies. Even better, it is a book written by our own sophomore, Tomi Simmons. Though Tomi has carried the goal of being a published author since elementary school, she has finally built up the courage to try to make this dream…