Six Black Lives Matter (BLM) murals were unveiled on various streets in Kansas City Sept. 5th. These murals can be found at the following intersections: E. 63rd and Brookside Blvd. E. 63rd St.and Troost Ave., 31st St. and Troost Ave. E. 18th and Vine St. W. 10th St.and Baltimore Ave.…
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Wildfires scorch the West Coast
California has been experiencing a record-setting fire season with over 25 major fires and two extended attack wildfires. Washington and Oregon are also ablaze – 1 million acres have burned in Washington and 807,000 acres in Oregon. In California, 3.3 million acres have burned. At least 33 people have died…
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Funky Socks of Jewell
Angelica Gutierrez gives us a peek into some Jewell students’ funky sock collections.
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Jewell named Kindest School by Synergy Services
On Aug. 8, 2020, William Jewell College was named “Kindest School” during the 30th Annual Kansas Citian Awards hosted by Synergy Services, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping “families in crisis through a variety of programs… [that aim to] heal trauma and build resilience in individuals to build strong families…
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The Best Socially Distanced Study Spots on Campus
Chloe McDonnell shares some photos from her favorite socially distanced study spots on William Jewell College’s campus.
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A Look at Two New Student Organizations
Gender Issues and Feminism Gender Issues and Feminism (GIF) is a student-led campus organization dedicated to understanding the “multiplicity of lived experiences of womanhood” and involving the campus in an ongoing discussion about important issues relating to sex and gender, the GIF cabinet explained. GIF is an organization which seeks…
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Communication in Times of COVID-19
It is easy to feel quite isolated during social isolation. I find myself often reminiscing about the wonderful times I had with my friends at Jewell and wishing that I could interact with them as I did before. While social distancing makes it so that the kind of communication that…
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Six Books to Read in Quarantine
Given that this pandemic has made it so that many of us are holed up in our abodes, we seem to have an excess of time to kill. Perhaps our first instinct is to reach for our phone, but there’s only so much bandwidth to go around in a particular…
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What is Women’s History Month?
On February 29, Donald Trump issued a proclamation that declared March as Women’s History Month. In doing so, Trump has upheld a presidential tradition of proclaiming March as Women’s History Month that began with President Carter in 1980 – though originally, Women’s History Month was Women’s History Week. But, what…
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