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By: Tara Feeney The 2024-2025 school year at McPherson College marked a record year for female enrollment in the Automotive Restoration program, with a total of 17 women enrolled. This marks a significant increase compared to past years. This increase follows a national trend, as more and more trade schools and colleges across the...
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,...
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...
By: Lucy Bowman Kansas is in a state of crisis. The availability of childcare is plummeting and, at the same time, costs are skyrocketing. According to data from Child Start, the average cost of childcare in the United States has increased over 200% in the last three decades. Even with the exponential...
By: Joseph Gonzales McPherson College Students Share Their Thoughts on Living at the Cedars Anyone on the McPherson College campus will tell you that there has been some chatter surrounding the new Maxwell Housing at McPherson College. Many students at McPherson jump at the chance to get out of a...
By: Claire McCullough McPherson College Athletics is currently going through a lot of changes, big and small. From the sports Center being renamed to the Hoffman Sports Center to expanding on to other sports such as bowling. One new change for the 2025-2026 school year is that the campus’s Women’s Soccer Coach, Mark Olson,...
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...
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...
By Ashanti Thompson Historically, the percentage of college students who vote has been low. This year, the seniors in the Communication Department worked to increase that number. The majors helped students register to vote, hosted two debate watches, created information flyers, and ended their efforts with an election results watch party at the Boiler...
By Reilly Murphy With the 2024 presidential election results of the November 5th election day, students on campus have expressed how they are affected and are feeling about the official results.  On November 5, former President Donald J. Trump was elected to serve as the 47th president of the United States...