This May, six members of the Hilltop Monitor editorial staff will graduate. Each senior shared their experience on the Monitor, memories of Jewell and plans for after graduation. Kristen Agar, senior accounting major, has been on the Monitor for the past four years and served as Editor-in-Chief this year.…
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2018 Faculty Award Finalists
Five finalists were announced for William Jewell College’s treasured Faculty Award. Seki Anderson, Caris Boegl, Jesse Lundervold, Erin Melton and Grace Miller were selected out of the thirteen students who applied for the award. The Faculty Award is a time-honored tradition at Jewell, given to one senior each year who…
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Dr. David Lisenby translates Spanish texts to English
Dr. David Lisenby, assistant professor of Spanish, has recently ventured into the realm of translating literary texts from Spanish to English. His first published translation is featured in the magazine Latin American Literature Today. The translated essay, “What She Understood: A Reading of Sergio Pitol’s ‘Mephisto’s Waltz,’” was originally written…
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Nano Nore: Decades of Teaching and Creating
Some individuals can trace the moment they realized what they wanted to do for the rest of their lives. For William Jewell College art professor Nano Nore, this moment occurred when she was 17. Nore had spent the summer between her junior and senior years of high school attending an…
Read MoreJoe Biden in 2020
Former vice president Joe Biden is unsure whether he will run for president in the 2020 race. A planned 2016 bid for the candidacy ended when his foremost proponent and son, Beau Biden, died at the age of 46 from brain cancer. Since the 2016 election, Biden has been critical…
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Aaron Hernandez CTE findings make new regulations critical
Aaron Hernandez, a former New England Patriot’s player, committed suicide in April in his jail cell at the age of 27. Hernandez was serving a life-sentence for the murder of a friend. Recently conducted posthumous scans of the football player’s brain revealed that Hernandez had extensive damage due to chronic…
Read More“It” is not all that
Stephen King’s 1000-page book “It” immediately recalls certain images: a murderous clown, red balloons and a group of kids fighting to save themselves from an uncertain fate. The titular “It” character is Pennywise the Dancing Clown (It), played by a terrifyingly good Bill Skärsgard, a being of unknown age that…
Read MorePodcast “S-Town” delves into empathy and mystery
There have been many attempts to bring rural, small-town life to the wider American audience. “Parks and Recreation” brought viewers comedic updates from Pawnee, Ind. while the HBO series “True Detective” approached rural Louisiana from its seedy underside. The new podcast “S-Town,” which stands for “Shit Town,” is a realistic…
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Feminist Club reflects and looks forward
William Jewell College Feminist Club hosted Feminist Week on the WJC campus Feb. 13 to Feb. 17. The Executive cabinet of the Feminist Club sought to raise awareness of their organization and feminism through Feminist Week, and to disseminate the definition of “feminism”: the theory of political, social, and economic…
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