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Ashleigh Smith Art Director Junior Katelyn Brawn has never enjoyed rejection, but when she received her first rejection letter, she had it framed. “You’re not a good writer unless you’ve…

Megan Hildebrand Staff Reporter Have you ever been to a McDaniel sporting event and thought to yourself, “Wow this field is set up perfectly.” If not, you should. There are…

Megan Robinson Staff Reporter It’s much more than a catchy song and dance, the YMCA is an organization focused on improving the community individual by individual. The YMCA has played…

Samantha Lambert Staff Reporter The opening night of local art gallery Off Track Art last month was a huge success. The parking lot was packed while people waited outside to…

Clayton Rosa Staff Reporter Tucked away in the basement of Rouzer, across the Minute Maid vending machine, is an office that houses one interim director, one secretary, and four part-time…

Laura Hutton Co-Editor in Chief McDaniel students joined their peers from Maryland’s independent colleges and universities on February 12 in Annapolis to save state funding of their institutions. The Sellinger…

Roxanne Fleischer News Editor Twenty-three years at McDaniel must mean that Bobby Anderson enjoys her job. She spent 10 years in the Registrar’s office before becoming the secretary of the…

Lauren Laker Staff Reporter Working two jobs, taking calls from angry parents and tolerating co-workers while raising a family may seem like quite a challenging feat for some, but not…

Alex Roman Staff Reporter Words like dirty, grimy, vomit-filled, and stinky are often used to describe the infamous boys dorm, Rouzer. However freshmen Kevin Wright, Chris Michell, Nick Sicuranza, and…

Clayton Rosa Staff Reporter If the Africa we know comes from the representations streaming through our radios and news mediums, then Africa can be generalized in few words: famine, disease,…

Kate Maloney Staff Reporter Ten thousand people applied to become an Obama Organizing Fellow last spring. Thirteen hundred were accepted ? only 150 from Michigan. Our own Amelia Vance was…

Casey Crough Staff Reporter “I want to see as much of the world as possible before I die,” said Jason Norton ’09, a senior who represents one of 20 students…

Samantha Lambert Staff Reporter It seems that there is a rising technological epidemic in the world today: text messaging. People, young and old, are using text messaging as an actual…

Rose Eney Staff Reporter It may come as a surprise to many McDaniel students that an average of 70 students per year transfer to our school. So why do they…

Brent Lowe Staff Reporter Paul McCartney’s new CD, “Electric Arguments” combines the ex-Beatles’ classic style with more instrument heavy pieces that gives it an all new sound without losing that…

Not-So-Astrologically-Inspired Horoscopes Jen Noel and Kris Breeden Staff Reporters Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): He’s just not that into you? Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20): You are a dear soul. You put…

Katelynn McGinley Staff Reporter The Academy Awards are just around the corner, in case you’ve forgotten that Brad Pitt has actually been doing things with his life other than raising…

Kate Maloney Staff Reporter Coming to a classroom near you, South Park: The Class will premiere Fall 2009 at McDaniel. The hit TV show is the focus of a new…

Danielle Smith Staff Reporter With 24 years of experience at McDaniel College, Dr. Christianna Leahy manages to not just juggle but to “hacky sack” her way through the constant challenge…

Roxanne Fleischer News Co-editor It all started with that soft bean bag chair, the one she says she was partial to in her elementary school library in Austin, Texas. Her…