This article is the first in a two-part series that will look into student organizations’ autonomy at William Jewell College, and by extension, other private colleges around the country. We will begin by unpacking an issue that affects “The Hilltop Monitor” especially, and that is censorship. In our recent April…
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Softball Coach Dustin Combs achieves 300th career win
April 9, the head coach for the William Jewell College softball team, Dustin Combs, won his 300th career game. This historic win, an 8-5 victory over Drury University, is a landmark in Combs’ near 20-year-long career. Combs began his career in 1998 in the Springfield Public School System. As he was…
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AFE: The Hilltop Monitor loses liberal propaganda award to every other accredited publication
This year “The Hilltop Monitor” regrettably did not receive the Karl Marx Award for Excellence in Liberal Propaganda. The competition, literally every accredited publication in the country, was just too stiff. The failing “New York Times,” by holding the Trump administration accountable, placed first. It’s leftist agenda made itself particularly…
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EPA will experience major challenges under Trump administration
“The Guardian” recently ran a story about how the northern hemisphere is witnessing a 26-day jump-start to spring this year, causing a litany of problems for plant and wildlife. For example, caribou set their seasonal migration calendars by day length, whereas plants respond to temperature. With increasing global temperatures due to this…
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Sports are culture, not art
A few weeks ago, “The Hilltop Monitor” ran an editorial that was critical of Meryl Streep’s Golden Globe award acceptance speech, in which she made some—seemingly—disparaging comments about Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and football. “Hollywood is crawling with foreigners and outsides, and if we kick them all out, you’ll have nothing to…
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Lynn McCutchen’s senior show, “Private Lives,” was an illustrious success
Lynn McCutchen, senior theatre performance major, has put on one of the best shows I have seen from the Jewell Theatre Company, which should come as no surprise. Having known McCutchen personally for several years now, I can say with certainty that she has some of the most comprehensive knowledge…
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Letter from the Editor: President Obama’s Legacy
While preparing for an editorial in which I’m going to consider President Obama’s legacy, the first thing that came to mind was to go through his policies. This seemed like a fitting place to start, to think about the practical ways in which he used the office of the Presidency…
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Curry Library in the 21st century
William Jewell College’s Curry Library is finding ways to adapt to the intense 21stcentury emphasis on the digital. What worked for libraries 50 years ago, or even what worked five years ago, does not work anymore. There are always new and innovative technologies being produced in the library field, and,…
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Protect our athletes’ right to protest
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 policies. She got a lot of notoriety for her attack on Colin Kaepernick and since then has become a symbol for neoconservatism among millennials. Needless to say,…
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