After Wild Finish, Baseball Postseason Begins
The 2011 MLB playoffs have finally arrived, but not before some late drama on the final day of the season. Baseball fans witnessed two of the biggest collapses in the…
Articles by Kaitlyn Vadenais
Out-Pick Matt: Weeks 5 and 6
In “Out-Pick Matt,” football fans try to predict the outcomes of National Football League games better than McDaniel Free Press Co-Sports Editor Matthew Arnold. In our first edition, the challenger…
Delta Lambda Phi
Delta Lambda Phi, the national fraternity for gay, bisexual, and progressive men, is soon to be the newest fraternity here on campus. While it is not officially a colony yet,…
Stadium Renovations to be Completed by Next Fall
McDaniel sports fans will soon be cheering for more than their athletic teams. Plans are currently underway for a fresh and contemporary stadium facility. Lee Primm, the Director of Special…
A Q&A With Jason Stein: SGA Treasurer
What process is used to determine allocations? How do clubs request money and what requests are granted? The SGA finance committee, composed of the Treasurer and select SGA senators and…
Fighting for The Cab
This is one of those instances where I really wish that review writing was as simple as writing “Check out this album, trust me.” It’s not that I don’t have…
The Triple Threat of McDaniel’s Women’s Field Hockey Team
Hope Battista, Michelle Deitrick, and Paige Messersmith are the captains of McDaniel’s Women’s Field Hockey team of 2011. All three girls display a close bond on and off the…
Clubrooms: What are They and Why Go?
Clubrooms are basically what they sound like: mini club type events held in a room. Most of the time, they are held in the designated rooms that certain groups meet…
Green Terror Athletes of the Week:
Nick O’Melia, Football: O’Melia caught seven passes for 203 yards against Gettysburg on Saturday to record the Green Terror’s first 200-yard receiving day since Paul McCord caught 227 yards worth…
Dead Island: Just Another Zombie Apocalypse?
From Techland, we get a brand new action adventure, zombie killing, gore filled game known as Dead Island for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3. Published by Deep Silver, Dead Island…
Editorial: A Time of Change
In his inaugural speech last year, President Roger Casey outlined his vision for a new and improved McDaniel College. Plans for a coffee shop in the Library Commons, an academic…
Financial Side of McDaniel: The Budget
What is the school really doing with our money? It is a question students and parents of McDaniel College ask themselves every day. In this poor economy, people want their…
Meet the Green: Ron Shriver
There are those people who watch things happen and then there are those who make things happen. Ron Shriver is one of those people who makes things happen for this…
The Good Soul of the McDaniel Acting Community
For most people, the only part of theater they get a chance to be a part of is the end product. For the audience, the two or three hours spent…
Hoover Gets New Access Service Librarian
The Hoover library is an academic resource that many McDaniel students depend upon. The librarians that help all of us to complete research and navigate through this campus resource are…
Hoover Library Implements “Text a Librarian”
When students need answers to their questions, there is now a new way on campus for them to find them. This fall, Hoover Library implemented a service called “Text…
Bob Allen- New Journalism Adjunct Lecturer
It came down to the wire. As the summer wound down senior Journalism professor Terry A. Dalton became ill and was unable to return to the Hill for this fall…
Just that “Gay Frat” or Something More?
There has been some interest in Delta Lambda Phi, a fraternity for gay, bisexual, and progressive men, ‘colonizing’ and starting a new chapter on campus. The first thing I think…
Sex on the Hill: To Wed or Not to Wed?
I really don’t care that no one ever asks me out, but, still, no one ever asks me out. Why am I always alone on weekends or with friends? Why…
Where in Westminster: Out of This World
7:10, an auspicious time, for it announces the beginning of the alignment of the cosmos. With an enormous green gas giant sporting yellow rings filled with white ice chips leading…