Ah, Donald J. Trump – presumably our only president whose tweets come directly from his own – NOT SMALL – thumbs, instead of being carefully manufactured into inoffensive, flavorless blocks of word-meat by a team of government employees. Whether you think his unfiltered tweets are refreshing, dangerous, hilarious or just plain…
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Conspiracy Theory Column: The CIA killed JFK
It’s only fitting to kick off this column with the mother of all conspiracy theories: the assassination of the 35th president of the United States John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK). As both an assassination enthusiast and JFK stan, I have my opinions both on the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, and…
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Town Hall: MacLeod Walls optimistic about upcoming HLC evaluation
Dressed in a blazer of the College’s signature crimson color, William Jewell College President Dr. Elizabeth MacLeod Walls raised her arms as she opened the third Town Hall of the 2018-2019 school year with, “It’s a great day to be a Cardinal.” A good portion of Jewell faculty, students and…
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Sports Profile: Aly Raisman
At just 24 years old, Aly Raisman has garnered a dynamic range of profound achievements that most people could not dream of achieving in a lifetime. Starting gymnastics at the age of two, Raisman attributed her early love for the sport to the members of the 1996 Olympic women’s gymnastic…
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Opinion: Pope Francis, the Church needs an institutional overhaul
On Nov. 12, Pope Francis once again delayed the process to address the pervasive problem of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. The bishops from each of the 196 archdioceses in the U.S. were scheduled to meet to vote on measures to confront the child sexual abuse crisis when,…
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Troostapalooza addresses Kansas City’s internal economic and racial divisions
Saturday, Sept. 22, vendors selling homemade soap, original clothing items and baked goods lined the street as residents sped by on motorized scooters, danced to live music and indulged in crepes and barbecue from food trucks at 30th Street and Troost Avenue in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. This lively evening…
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Kansas City embraces hispanic culture and heritage at Fiesta Hispana
Kansas City’s Fiesta Hispana was held Sept. 14 through 16 in the Barney Allis Plaza at the Kansas City Convention Center. The festival is the epicenter of Hispanic celebration in the Midwest, bringing in upwards of 40,000 people each year. Attendees of the festival enjoy Hispanic culture in the form…
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Jewell hosts active shooter training as U.S. mass shootings become deadlier
Approximately 20 people dotted Yates-Gill Room 221/222 on the evening of Aug. 28 while Officer Kyle Hamline from the Liberty Police Department held an active shooter training course. The training was open to faculty, students and staff and was the second of two courses, the first being held Aug. 14.…
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Illusionist Craig Karges mystifies Jewell students at first CUA event of the year
Campus Union Activities (CUA) invited self-proclaimed “extraordinist” Craig Karges to perform for an audience of roughly 300 students in Gano Assembly at 8:00 p.m. Aug. 20. This was CUA’s first event of the 2018-2019 school year. Karges, who is, according to his website, an award-winning entertainer, a nationally recognized speaker…
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