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By Armond McCray After years of talking and speculation, Wichita has finally joined the wave of putting together a citizens’ review board. The citizens’ review board will provide the Wichita Police Department and council input regarding racial and biased-based policing issues. It will replace the existing City Manager Review Board. The board will also assist in policy development, public education,...
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 Introduction to Education Practicum course...
By Deiah Curtis HAPPY ST. PATRICK’S DAY!! Too bad it’s the day he died. Holidays come around every season, we dress up, sing certain songs, and wear specific colors, but do we ever know why? St. Patrick’s (or Patty’s) Day has become a celebration all around the world including countries like America, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, and of course, Ireland....
By Tyler Dunn The varsity McPherson Baseball team had a series of games over spring break, leaving the bullys stranded on campus. The dogs were left with college student funds and nothing to do, so naturally they broke out the hacky sack and video games to pass the time. With the cafeteria closed and an NAIA budget, the dogs were left...
By Tomi Simmons March fourteenth marked the one month tragedy of the Parkland High School mass shooting. In response to this, many schools decided to perform a walkout as a protest to gun violences at ten am. Although there were many protests, school walkouts, and memorials at ten am; McPherson College held a memorial for seventeen minutes at noon at...

Rogue Writers

By: Joyce Muhizi Rogue writers formerly known as MC Writes is a club that was established on campus in the fall of 2017 by Kerri Snell as the advisor and a group of students. “After taking creative writing with Kerri Snell, we had a really small group of students, but we had a lot of fun. You really bond a...
By: Emmy Goering Over the past nine years, Nigeria has faced repeated horrors as the militant Islamic terrorist organization, Boko Haram, wreaked havoc on the Northeast region. The organization, whose name literally translates to “Western education is forbidden,” regularly kidnaps innocent victims to join their cause. Girls and young women are taken as wives, forced to birth the next generation...
  By Tyler Dunn The McPherson Softball team is on their way towards a season like no other; starting the year off with wins at the Cowtown Classic. Despite injuries, the team has managed to battle many teams that they have played; if they don’t win they learn. When asked the difference between this year and last, Sophomore Jasmine Curiel says...
By Toni Snyder The McPherson College Choir held its first concert of the semester on March 12th, 2018. This concert was peculiar as it was held in collaboration with the McPherson High School Choir and also incorporated the McPherson College band director, Kyle Hopkins. The College performed a total of six songs, two of which were sung with the High...

March Madness

By: Armond McCray The time has come again, the month of madness that everyone looks forward to, March Madness that is. March Madness is the month that holds the annual NCAA college basketball championship tournament. The tournament features sixty-eight D1 (division-one) teams. The 68 teams are divided into four regions and organized into a single-elimination "bracket". Each year millions of...