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The Hilltop Monitor’s relationship with freedom of the press and censorship

21 April 2017
Brett Stone
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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

21 April 2017
Brett Stone
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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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EPA will experience major challenges under Trump administration

3 March 2017
Brett Stone
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“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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Lynn McCutchen’s senior show, “Private Lives,” was an illustrious success

17 February 2017
Brett Stone
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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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Curry Library in the 21st century

2 December 2016
Brett Stone
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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

18 November 2016
Brett Stone
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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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Humans of Jewell

11 November 2016
Brett Stone
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“I fell and had to have surgery on my knee, and I could hardly get around until I got my MRI. That was a challenge because I was scared and I was happy to get it over with, to find out that I could walk again. I couldn’t even sit…

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“A Seat at the Table” is the best album of the year

28 October 2016
Brett Stone
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Talking about an album that means a lot to me is always a challenging thing. I’m having such difficulty with Solange Knowles’s “A Seat at the Table.” How can I describe the hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach after hearing the line, “I tried to let go my lover,…

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Dr. Elizabeth MacLeod Walls talks rebranding and more

16 September 2016
Brett Stone
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The Hilltop Monitor had a chance to ask William Jewell College’s new president, Dr. Elizabeth MacLeod Walls, about the upcoming year, focusing on Jewell’s “rebranding.” Bolded are our questions, and her responses are denoted with EMW. What was your first impression of William Jewell College? EMW: My first impression of…

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