The Paralympic games follow up the Olympic games for people with a wide range of disabilities, including impaired muscle power or muscle movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision or intellectual impairment disabilities. There are winter and summer Paralympics, and they happen every four years…
Read MoreFantasy Football Advice: Week 4
Waiver Wire Targets Jordan Howard, Chicago Bears After Jeremy Langford suffered a high ankle sprain on Sunday, the Bears look prepared to depend on the rookie Howard in a larger capacity. Howard has played well when given the opportunity and boasts amazing potential, but his production will largely depend on how…
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A Letter to the Monitor: Luce-Virlynn Apollon
Luce-Virlynn Apollon discusses racism and the Paige Shoemaker controversy “It feels good to finally be a n*gga.” Those aren’t the lyrics to the latest hip-hop song. But rather, that was the caption to a Snapchat posted by a student at Kansas State University. On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Paige Shoemaker…
Read MoreThe Merger of Sports and Fashion
More and more, fashion is influencing sports, and sports are influencing fashion. The worlds of fashion and sports have been closely related since the early 20th century, when famous tennis player Rene Lacoste founded a fashion company called “La Societe Chemise Lacoste” in 1933, which aimed to create sophisticated clothing…
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Oxbridgers return to Jewell
William Jewell College has been offering the distinctive Oxbridge program for more than 25 years. This program allows students the opportunity to study abroad at Oxford University in England during their junior year. The Oxbridge majors include literature and theory, history, history of ideas, institutions and policy, molecular biology and music.…
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National Parks Centennial
“See America First” This is what four William Jewell students Jesse Lundervold, Blair Sundhausen, Chandler Eaton, and Daniel Bittel did this past summer as the National Park Service (NPS) celebrated their 100th year anniversary. This slogan was propagated by the Great Northern Railway as they attempted to converge the $500…
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Photo Feature: Summer in the Park Service
Via lens and foot, park ranger Chandler Eaton spent a season trekking around the Rocky Mountains. In 1916, the Department of Interior created a government agency to preserve and protect the nation’s National Parks, monuments and landmarks. This past summer, junior political science major Chandler Eaton worked as park ranger…
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To be honest…with Dylan Jones
To be honest I feel like we, as Americans, need to expand our worldview to learn more about ourselves and other countries. In August, I began the CTI course Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It has helped me expand my worldview by learning how people of other religions practice their faith and how…
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Hammocking: A Field Guide to Jewell
Harper Vincent explores the best places to literally hang out on the WJC campus. The Jury is still out on whether hammocking is a sport, but here at William Jewell College, students can often be spotted lounging in Enos around campus. Even if a student doesn’t personally own one, hammocks…
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