If you haven’t heard of her by now, Tomi Lahren is a television commentator known to vehemently advocate for controversial, i.e. racist, conservative values and policies. She got a lot of notoriety for her attack on Colin Kaepernick and since then has become a symbol for neoconservatism among millennials. Needless to say,…
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Men’s basketball has high hopes coming into the 2016 season
The William Jewell College men’s basketball team went 9-17 in the 2015-2016 season and finished last in the GLVC West conference with a conference record of 4-14. This would probably explain why The Cardinals are seventh ranked (out of eight) in the GLVC West preseason polls. Coach Holley hasn’t even…
Read MorePodcasts: the internet’s take on radio drama
Radio didn’t die, it evolved. The proliferation of mobile devices, especially the iPod, gave birth to the podcast (from “iPod” and “broadcast”): an audio program made available through the Internet. Like the radio shows of days past, it’s free, widely accessible and almost invariably runs in a series, gathering fans and…
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Photo Feature: Noticed or Not
Photographer Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe
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William Jewell College Baristas: The Mamas of Jewell
Students go off to college, and without moms to make them breakfast and wish them a good day, the baristas step in to make the college version of breakfast—coffee—and to lend students a listening ear. Angela Martin, Cindy Eggleston and Kristina Clevenger, the William Jewell College baristas, bustle around the…
Read MoreTrump is unqualified, ignorant and dangerous, but he’s still my president
March 17, 2011: that was the day that I lost all respect for Donald Trump. Up to that point, I thought of him as a silly-looking, somewhat crude, egotistical reality show host that, I’ll admit, I enjoyed watching at times. But in an interview with “Good Morning America,” he discussed his laughable…
Read MoreRecap of the national election
Photo courtesy of PopSugar.com The 2016 Election season is over. The national election concluded Wed. Nov. 9 at approximately 2 a.m. Donald Trump received 279 electoral votes, making him our 45th President. In comparison, Hillary Clinton received 228 electoral votes. However, she won the popular vote. The only other occurrences…
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Letter to the Monitor: Jameson O’Connor
To my fellow students, I am concerned for the future of our republic. Not because of who our next president will be, but because I have seen so many Americans across the many social media platforms proclaim that our next president will “never be [their] president;” and because those Americans whose…
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Humans of Jewell
“I fell and had to have surgery on my knee, and I could hardly get around until I got my MRI. That was a challenge because I was scared and I was happy to get it over with, to find out that I could walk again. I couldn’t even sit…
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