Check This! Video player finally implemented

After months of unofficial stalling and legitimate waiting until real video was available, I'm happy to announce that McDaniel Free Press has it's own video section. If you are an avid user of the site, you probably have noticed that the "Check This" menu link at the top of the page has been broken. Well, it's fixed now, and you can watch the latest videos from the McDaniel College Community. Geoff Peckham has done the work on the first three published ones, and we will try to get video from other places as well as time goes on. Enjoy!

If you want your video published, you're gonna have to campus mail it or hand it to me in the next two weeks, or wait until next year for the new people to figure it out. Either contact me, Mike Habegger (best), or send an email to freepress@mcdaniel.edu.

--M.W.H.



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The Senior Issue Approaches

If you haven't filled out the senior survey yet, re-check your email. I'll post it up here when I remember. If you want to be included in the senior issue of the McDaniel Free Press, then fill it out, and send it in.

Also, if you have any story ideas you wish to share, attach it to the email and maybe we'll get a reporter to come out and cover write about it for you. Wouldn't that be cool? A feature story about something near and dear to you in the Free Press?

C'mon people, where's the reminiscence? I could write a 500 page book about my experiences at McDaniel and what I've learned about life. Sheesh. At the very least, you could comment on the blog and let me know something about your college careers. Oh well. And if we(I) had more time, maybe there would be a special senior issue section. Actually, a blog may appear to contain all the senior content, slightly separate from the main Free Press pages.

Trust me, you'll thank me later, when you can google your name and get memories from High School.

Oh, and also, check this out--you can sign up for an email notification list so that when we publish a new issue, you can receive and email from us, and then you can keep up with what's happening on the campus, after you're long gone.

Additionally, you can now sign up as a member of the Free Press blogs, so that you don't have to put in those hard to read series of letters when making a comment on the blogs. You should do it. It saves time. And you get a profile of sorts. Then we can stalk you. Haha, not really but yeah, we can.

We're more trustworthy than Bill Gates, though. You can actually find me in real life, which is kind of scary.

-M.W.H.



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College Press Day

Probably should have made an announcement about this earlier, but hey. No one really came to my session. How sad. Anyway, have a good day!

And look for the senior issue coming in the next few weeks.



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Volume 8 Issue 4--We comin' at you

This was a good issue. It was tough to fit everything in. One might call it a "tight" issue. Slang be damned. Here are some highlights:

Features Co-Editor Juli Guiffre documents the experience of IVCF-ers during their 30-Hour Famine they undertook in an effort to support the 29,000 children under the age of five who die each day from hunger.

Blanche is due for a facelift, reports Kate Delenick. And not too soon. Said Ryan Liberatore, "“The only good thing about Blanche is the people that live here.” 'Nuf said.

In our most controversial article to hit the campus in a while, contributor Gail Beveridge investigates the new study-abroad program in Brussels. Early reviews are in, and they're not all positive, that's for certain.

In sports, Features Co-Editor Rachel Hooper explains the latest news regarding a possible split in D3 and what it might mean for the Centennial Conference, and Sports Co-Editor Chris Ferrick-Manley finds that the Women's Lacrosse Team is ready to roll to a championship.

Commentary Co-Editor David Nasongkhla is flabbergasted that there is talk of an actor's strike in the air tonight.

Finally, can you believe that Alcohol can help prevent heart disease? Who'd have thunk it. Julia Heck explains.

And why not check out the The Lighter Side of the Campus Safety Blotter. It's a fan favorite. The next one will be choc ful o spring fling madness, so enjoy the lull in campus violations while you can.

That's all folks, and more. Make sure you visit the blog pages as well. Geoff Peckham, News Co-Editor is sure to soon have some video up there. I'll link to it when he does. Note: for some reason, the quotes aren't working on the front page. Not to worry, they work in the article pages. I'll investigate sooner or later...

--M.W.H.



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Important! Use Safari 3.1

Even though this site isn't all that great looking, mainly because of my lack of talent in the design area of html, you can see my work with fonts, using Safari 3.1. Pretty amazing stuff. It reads css3 elements, such as new Web Fonts that get called from the server.

In other words, I never thought I'd say this, but you will love your life if you use Safari 3.1 to view this website.

Maybe Mac stuff isn't so bad afterall...

--M.W.H.



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April Fools!

I know we are a college newspaper, and it's April 1, a natural time for outlandish humor and administration outrage, but we got nothing for ya.

We did an April Fool's edition last year, and it fooled a hell of a lot of people. It was funny, but mostly a "concept" issue based on my early reading of the "House of Leaves."

At any rate, didn't want to do it again this year because, a) I'm not funny much, and b) I am hoping it will be a genuine surprise the next time it happens aka I don't want it to be a tradition.

**BREAKING** (10:05 a.m.) Little Baker Chapel finally burns down, weeks after small rug fire set by a fallen candle during a service sorority's induction...

(Yeah, not so funny. It's early, and actually, reading some stuff on the net right now, I'm kinda pissed we missed the boat today).

**BREAKING** Mom, Dad, I'm pregnant!

(Dr. Upton told me to say that one).

--M.W.H.



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