William Jewell College’s 18th annual David Nelson Duke Colloquium Day was held April 20 at various locations on campus. During Colloquium Day, students from almost every discipline present research and creative projects to faculty, fellow students, family, friends and the general community. Jewell students spend months and sometimes years planning…
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Trump sends National Guard to U.S.-Mexico border
On April 4, President Donald Trump ordered National Guard troops to the Mexican border as the first step in his plan to reduce and control illegal immigration and drug trafficking. This order came two weeks after the president received criticism for signing a spending bill that did not include funding…
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2018 Faculty Award Finalists
Five finalists were announced for William Jewell College’s treasured Faculty Award. Seki Anderson, Caris Boegl, Jesse Lundervold, Erin Melton and Grace Miller were selected out of the thirteen students who applied for the award. The Faculty Award is a time-honored tradition at Jewell, given to one senior each year who…
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The power of love gained and lost in “Call Me by Your Name”
“Call Me by Your Name” is a 2017 dramatic film adapted from André Aciman’s book by the same name about a 17-year-old boy, Elio, who lives with his family in the northern Italian countryside. During the summer of 1983, a 24-year-old graduate student named Oliver lives with the family, interning…
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To be honest…with Christina Kirk
To be honest, stereotyping majors is useless and usually degrading. Regardless of your major, I’m sure you’re familiar with the demography associated with it. Business majors are football players. Physics majors are awkward loners. Political science majors are charismatic and truculent. But how many people truly identify with these generalizations?…
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Eric Greitens has been indicted
Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens was indicted Feb. 22 after allegations of sexual misconduct and blackmail were revealed in mid-January. The allegations concern a consensual encounter in March of 2015 during which Greitens allegedly took a partially nude photo of his hairstylist without her permission, threatening to leak it if she…
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Missouri Right to Work Referendum to appear on November ballot
Missouri enacted a right to work law in August 2017 that, according to the National Right to Work Foundation, “guarantees that no person can be compelled, as a condition of employment, to join or not to join, nor to pay dues to a labor union.” Amidst divided governments, the passage…
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A review of “The Shape of Things”
“The Shape of Things,” a 2001 play by Neil LaBute, played in Brown Theater Feb. 16 and 17. Senior theatre and psychology major Brioni Garvin directed and starred in the show for her senior capstone performance, a project in which senior theatre majors demonstrate their comprehensive theatrical education at Jewell…
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