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Month: November 2016

Protect our athletes’ right to protest

18 November 2016
Brett Stone
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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…

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Men’s basketball has high hopes coming into the 2016 season

18 November 2016
Jake Marlay
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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…

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Podcasts: the internet’s take on radio drama

18 November 2016
Luke Lockhart
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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…

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Photo Feature: Noticed or Not

11 November 2016
Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe
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Photographer Sofia Arthurs-Schoppe

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William Jewell College Baristas: The Mamas of Jewell

11 November 2016
Lauren Berndt
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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…

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Trump is unqualified, ignorant and dangerous, but he’s still my president

11 November 2016
Luke Lockhart
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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…

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Recap of the national election

11 November 2016
Dylan Jones
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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…

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Letter to the Monitor: Jameson O’Connor

11 November 2016
Jameson O'Connor
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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…

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Humans of Jewell

11 November 2016
Brett Stone
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“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…

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