To be honest, I am graduating in eight days and I did not think it would be this hard. Two weeks ago, I had gotten comfortable in the outfit of adulthood. But, as I said my first real goodbye today, it hit me that summer is just another season now,…
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Swimming wins SAAC Sportsmanship Award two years running
Pictured is the 2014-15 William Jewell College swim team. They traveled to Arizona during winter break for their annual training trip. For the second year, the William Jewell men’s swimming and diving team – and now, the women’s team – have brought home the Great Lakes Valley Conference Student-Athlete Advisory…
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Before You Vote: 2015-2016 Student Senate cabinet candidates
Mary Luber, editor-in-chief, sat down with the three 2015-2016 Student Senate president candidates: sophomore Bruce Rash, junior Grace Smith and junior Logan Routh. What do you believe is the main purpose or point of Student Senate? Rash: I believe that the role of Student Senate is to be the conduit through…
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“It Follows” you everywhere
David Robert Mitchell’s “It Follows” is not your mother’s horror movie . . . but then again, it sort of is. The latest teen horror flick does not even feel like one – it is like if “Halloween” (the 1978 original, obviously) and “The Outsiders” had a baby, and the…
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AFE: Sigma Nu returns to campus with plans to occupy Baseball House
The Beta Xi chapter of the Sigma Nu fraternity has been reinstated on the William Jewell College campus, ending its almost 13 year long hiatus from the Hill. However, at the start of the spring semester, when the members of the fraternity began moving their 5th generation couches and framed Fight…
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Hilltop Voices: 54 countries, 1 stereotype
Mary Luber, senior, spent a summer studying responsible community engagement and service in Cape Town, South Africa. She reflects on what she learned about the diverse continent and offers a new lens for thinking about Africa. The continent of Africa is composed of 54 vastly different countries. The residents of…
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Career Mentor Program accepts applications for fall term
It is a well-worn cliché: It is not what you know, but rather, who you know. And most importantly, it is who knows that you know what you know. But Marissa Bland, Director of Career Development and Internships, believes the cliché’s persistence is simply due to its accuracy. Bland’s staff…
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WHY-Fi: the answers to the recent wireless outage
If you attempted to connect to Wi-Fi this past weekend, you probably did not have much luck. Saturday, Feb. 14, both the Jewell Secure wireless network on the Quad and residence hall networks slowed through the afternoon before eventually disconnecting in the early evening. Information Technology notified students of the issue via…
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BDSM: Beyoncé Doesn’t Save Movie
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Wait, no, it is a commercial for unhealthy sexual relationships masquerading as the plot of an erotic Valentine’s Day flick! Don’t let the kind of perfect Queen Bey additions to the soundtrack or deceivingly artistic promotional photos fool you. If you thought it was…
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