9/19/2022 EMMA FIGLEWICZPHOTOGRAPHER DANIELLE NYKANENSTAFF WRITER As winter athletes get excited for the start of their seasons, a new team will be preparing for their first season ever. In December 2021 Alma athletics announced that women’s wrestling would be added to the athletics program as the 28th varsity sport. With practices starting on October 10th, […]
CLAIRE WITTLIEFFSTAFF WRITER 9/19/2022 This fall season, Alma College’s Kiltie Marching Band celebrates its 100th anniversary. The band held its first performance of the season at the Alma College football game against Manchester University on Saturday, September 10. Dr. David Zerbe, Alma College’s Director of Bands and Percussion Studies, began his career at Alma in 1988. […]
KYLE SCHECKPHOTOGRAPHER CLAIRE HIPPSCOPY EDITOR 9/19/2022 Among Alma’s distinguished faculty and staff is Matthew Collins, the director of the Alma College Library and occasional adjunct faculty member in the religious studies department, where he specializes in disambiguating the meaning of the New Testament. The library-to-Learning Commons renovations have posed some challenges for the library staff. […]
ALIVIA GILESLAYOUT EDITOR 9/19/2022 Stranger Things star Noah Schnapp recently began his first year at the University of Pennsylvania. Concerning images, including screenshots of what appear to be other students’ private conversations about Schnapp, have surfaced on Twitter. This has caused fans to worry about the actor’s safety. Since starting school, images of the 17-year-old […]
REYNA EDWARDSSTAFF WRITER 9/19/2022 Alma College’s campus has been experiencing Michigan’s 5th season, construction, for countless months now; however, the college is not focusing on the actual problem at hand south of Superior St. Many students believe that South campus housing has been neglected by the school. While the learning commons and the chapel are […]
WESTON HIREVELAGRAPHIC DESIGNER MARIA KOLBSTAFF WRITER 9/19/2022 On August 31, Russia’s state-owned energy giant Gazprom halted gas flows to Europe via a major pipeline, Nord Stream, citing maintenance works on its only remaining compressor. This is believed to be in response to new sanctions levied against Russia by the G7 nations, an informal group of […]
CLAIRE WITTLIEFFSTAFF WRITER 9/19/2022 On January 6, 2021, the United States capitol building was insurrected by a number of Americans, anywhere between 3,000 and 20,000 people. Since the day of the insurrection, a string of hearings has taken place that have concentrated on the January 6 incident. Along with the hearings, an investigation of former […]
LEIA LEHRERGRAPHIC DESIGNER EMMA FIGLEWICZSTAFF WRITER 9/19/2022 As summer wraps up and the air becomes colder, the dreadful cold and flu season again comes to Alma. Luckily, the campus offers students the opportunity to get a flu vaccine at the Wilcox Health Center’s walk-up, no appointment flu vaccine clinic. Students are welcome to come to […]
