We have spent our entire lives seeing advertisements for weight loss supplements and meal systems that guarantee to help us burn fat quickly. Magazine covers attempt to grab our attention with headlines like “Lose 20 pounds fast!” People try to get healthy by following the Whole 30 or Paleo diets…
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Liberty Square Business Feature: Pie Time
It’s always high time for pie at Liberty’s new pie and dessert shop. Pie Time, located next to Nickel and Suede and Bittersweet Apothecary at 111 N. Water Street, is the perfect place to go to satisfy those cravings that no dorm room mug cake can. Pie Time opened Dec.…
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Featured Hometown: Hutchinson, Kansas
Hutchinson, Kansas – most William Jewell College students have never heard of it. Some have passed through it on their way to the far more romanticized state of Colorado but have negative impressions of the town of 42,000. It’s flat. There’s nothing to do there. Kansas is lame. The drive…
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Sports Opinion: Why parents shouldn’t pressure their kids to win
Saturday soccer games, Monday night basketball practice and summers spent playing tee ball are the stuff of which many American children’s lives are made. Three out of every four United States families with kids over the age of six have at least one child in organized sports. Nothing is as…
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“The Bachelor”: good show or guilty pleasure?
Your first interaction with it was by chance. Maybe your mom had it on the living room television or your best friend invited you to a viewing party. Perhaps you saw a tweet and decided to play an episode using your sister’s Hulu login information. You told everyone that you…
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Top 10: Ways to live your best life
There are few things that get me as excited as the start of a new calendar or school year. The opportunity to set new goals and make improvements on myself brings a lot of hope when I feel I’ve gotten in a rut. Making a change is the only way…
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Holiday Happenings: From Scrooge to Santa – how to get into the holiday spirit
As soon as the leftover turkey is wrapped up in the fridge and the dishes are washed I am in full-blown Christmas mode. Are you still not feeling the holiday spirit? No worries – I tested some holiday activities over Thanksgiving break and ranked the best ways to turn any…
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Featured Alumnae: Rae Snider
Rae Snider, ‘17, graduated from William Jewell College with a major in English and a minor in women’s studies. Though she hadn’t planned on working in the nonprofit sector she is now active in the field in Kansas City. “I didn’t realize what I wanted to do, which I want…
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Nonprofit Leadership Association hosts trivia night to raise funds for local nonprofit
The Nonprofit Leadership Association (NLA) held a trivia night, restaurant takeover and raffle Thursday Oct. 25. The event was hosted at Rock & Run on the Liberty Square. Funds raised at the event went to Warrior’s Best Friend, a nonprofit in Kansas City that trains shelter dogs to be adopted…
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