By: Taylor Cunningham
Whitney Murray is a senior cheerleader, and has attended McPherson College for four
years. Her major is K-12 Spanish Licensure. After graduation, Whitney will
begin teaching with the Topeka School District in Fall of 2018, but she is
unsure of what grade yet. She began cheering when she was in the 5th grade,
but stopped in middle school until her junior...
By Tyler Dunn
The McPherson track team has been setting records left and right, all events and all classes. The athletes have been stealing the spotlight at every competition that they attend. When the other competitors see McPherson track come step up to the line they already know they’re in for a race. McPherson Track is a force that is...
By: Logan Hartman
Kendahl Kelley is a member of the women’s basketball team at McPherson College and will be graduating with a bachelor’s degree in political science this spring. Kelley was born in Svendborg, Denmark, but her father was born in Brooklyn. She is one of three siblings and the middle child between her two brothers. As she grew older,...
By: Logan Hartman
Aaron Bachura is a member of the men’s basketball team at McPherson College and will be graduating this spring with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. Bachura grew up in a small town on the east side of Kansas called Council Grove. Bachura enjoyed playing sports such as football and basketball with his brothers, but basketball took...
By: Emmy Goering
Just a few weeks ago, six other students and I traveled to the African country of Rwanda with Dr. Herb Smith as part of our interterm class. We met several times prior to the trip to learn about the country we’d be visiting, and I was shocked by its violent history. Just 24 years ago, in 1994,...
By: Tomi Simmons
Over interterm, fifteen students and fifteen community members of McPherson traveled to the Big Apple! New York City! Professors Rick Tyler and Jd Bowman led this trip. We spent nine days there, and saw two Broadway shows, a tour of the Steinway Piano Museum, and a tour of the Metropolitan Opera House together. Though we went as...
By: Deiah Curtis
Coughing, shivering, burning throat and fever through the roof. These are the beginning signs of what is now one of the biggest Influenza out breaks in decades, and doctors are screaming, “Stay home!”
We’ve been hit hard at McPherson College, but the number of sick staff and students is low in comparison to other institutions around the country....
By: Armond McCray
He was once one of the most trusted sports physician to Olympic gymnast’s, but now that trust is long gone for Larry Nassar. Not to mention that people have now even lost their jobs for placing so much trust in him, which allowed him to commit crime after crime, for far too many years. Larry Nassar not...
By: Emmy Goering
On the afternoon of February 14, 2018, a 19-year-old former student entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida with an AR-15-style semi-automatic weapon and several magazines of ammunition. Shortly after, students began dying.
Although the school had practiced a fire drill earlier in the day, the fire alarm had reportedly been pulled by the shooter, which...
