Writing Center Welcomes New Director
Over the summer, the position of Director of the Writing Center changed hands. Lisa Breslin was promoted to Acting Associate Dean of Student Academic Life. Owen Horton stepped up to…
Articles by Kaitlyn Vadenais
Sex on the Hill: Sizing Your Partner Up
Many women look for a man who is taller than them in order to fit in with societal norms. No girl wants to not be able to wear heels at…
Class of 2015 Gets a Head Start on Community Service
The staff of the Westminster Boys and Girls Club was elated to see nearly 50 smiling faces of the class of 2015 walk into their building on a rainy Saturday…
Free Movies to Watch on Netflix
Thousands of movies are on Netflix to watch instantly and more than half of them are crap. You know the ones that I’m talking about. They’re the Stephen Segal movies…
Hoover Library’s 20th Anniversary: Looking at Our Past, Planning for Our Future
In celebration of the Hoover Library’s 20th anniversary, the staff is planning to make accommodations for all of the different types of people at McDaniel College. In order to attract…
Meet the Green: Jake Zamostny
If I absolutely had to sum Jake Zamostny up in one word, it would have to be regal. Very poised, calm, and collected. No wonder he’s a captain of the…
What does AST stand for? Not Alpha Nu Omega!
During the spring of 2011, one of McDaniel’s local sororities disappeared only to resurface as something they never used to be. “Alpha Nu Omega is definitely a part of Alpha…
Meet the Green: Kevin White
When you first walk onto the McDaniel College campus, you attempt to figure everyone out. Jock, Greek, activist, bookworm. They’re all labels and stereotypes that not every person on this…
Party In the P.R.C.
On June 28, 2011 two McDaniel faculty and several McDaniel students, including myself, flew to China to conduct research on a centuries old art called Tiehua. The following entries are…
Meet the Green: Missy Black
One of the great things about McDaniel is that is allows you to express yourself inside and out as you discover yourself. Melissa Black, I mean Missy Black, has done…
New to the Free Press! Arts AND Culture!
The arts might be something associated with Westminster. In town, McDaniel’s theatre department is pretty well-known and respected, Winters Mill High School is certainly known for its Arts Department, and…
Tati’s The Illusionist: Being Real, or just Depressing?
Just as a brief, American frame of reference: think about what 101 Dalmations looks like. Now take out the dogs, put in an unsuccessful magician, replace Cruella de Ville with…
The CUP Opens Up to Serve Treats and Tea
If you find yourself wandering through the stores of Westminster on Fall Fest or in the depths of Midnight Madness, slip through the coffee-colored wood doors of the CUP Tea…
McDaniel Hosts French Film Festival
This year McDaniel has been selected out of countless colleges and universities across America to showcase the French film festival Tournees. McDaniel has been host to this festival for four…
McDaniel College Theatre Presents: The Good Soul of Szechuan
“The Good Soul of Szechuan” is the first show to hit the boards of the McDaniel stage, and I, being a theatre kid myself, am excited to experience the show….
Fifteen Shows To Keep An Eye On
Fall season rolls around every year, and with it, you get a lot of new television shows. I know how hard it is to pick what to watch, so I’m…
McDaniel Shows Off Tailgating Style to Weather Channel
Tailgating, for most, might be defined as an activity that ends when a football game begins. At McDaniel, though, tailgating and the game are one entity, and our unique style…
The Big Games: Homecoming and Hopkins
There is not much that McDaniel and other Division III schools can look at to compare themselves to major Division I programs like Michigan and Alabama. One factor though that…
Lighter Side of the Campus Safety Blotter
As usual, McDaniel students (especially freshman) have returned to campus with one thing on their minds— partying. Maybe it’s the 400 American Pie films or perhaps the timeless Beastie Boys…
New Tradition Established to Build Sense of Community
Nearly all McDaniel students can remember ringing the bell after Convocation and look forward to ringing it again upon graduation, but the Class of 2015 has experienced the beginning of…