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Category: Opinions

AFE: The Mcdonald’s Commercial: Redone

1 April 2016
Cole Allee
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The original, 2010. The Hilltop Monitor Version, 2016.

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AFE: 9 Things You Didn’t Know “PLC” Actually Stands For: #9 Could Help Those of You Fishing for a Phormal Date

1 April 2016
Chandler Eaton
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What does PLC actually stand for? 1. People Leaving Computers ON the seemingly crimeless hill, students leave their laptops lounging about the PLC with no…

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Trevor Adams and the Charlotte Hornets

4 March 2016
Alyssa Young
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Trevor Adams, junior business administration major, interned with the professional basketball team The Hornets from September 2015 to December 2015. While he was away, Adams…

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A response to Steinem and Albright’s comments on the democratic nomination

19 February 2016
Jesse Lundervold
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Gloria Steinem, a noted feminist activist, and Madeleine Albright, a former Secretary of State have recently endorsed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. However, both women have…

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Character Values: What they mean to students

20 November 2015
Sarah Crosley
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The character values of William Jewell College are posted around campus. You can see them on the flags, RAs have them on their shirts and…

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Hilltop Voices: Will Hyde on Pope Francis

9 October 2015
William Hyde
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As crowds gathered down the sides of Constitution Avenue, one would almost believe a president was being inaugurated or be reminded of the historic speech…

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A summer in Romania

25 September 2015
Athena Palmer
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Senior Sarah Crosley uses Hall Grant to spend three weeks in Romania working on archaeological sites. This past summer Sarah Crosley, senior Classics and English…

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Why public media matters

18 September 2015
Brett Stone
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 Sophomore Brett Stone interned this summer at KCPT, a local broadcasting station in Kansas City that allowed him to see the advantages of public media…

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Hilltop Voices: Erin Melton on the 2016 presidential campaign announcements

24 April 2015
Erin Melton
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In case anyone has failed to notice, campaigning has in fact begun for the 2016 presidential election. There has been much speculation in the past…

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