KAEYLYN WOJTYLKO StAFF WRITER Photo by EMMA GROSSBAUER Recently, the United States has seen multiple changes regarding laws including ages you are eligible to drink, smoke marijuana and now tobacco use. On Dec. 20, 2019, President Trump signed the bill which was set to go into effect immediately. The American Lung Association has been pushing... Continue Reading →
Healthies shakes up downtown Alma
JACOB SMITH STAFF WRITER The Opera House has welcomed a new tenant in their street side business space. Healthies of Mid Mitten is a health shake bar. The husband and wife duo of Michele and Ron Welch own Healthies. As friends of owners of a similar shake bar in Mt. Pleasant, they were encouraged to... Continue Reading →
Bowling makes history with big win
ALYSSA GALL SPORTS WRITER On Saturday, November 16, Alma College’s Bowling Team made history at the BGSU Falcon Classic. With some standout performances and the overall team score, both the Varsity and JV team finished the tournament in first place. This first-place finish for both teams at a tournament is a first for the program and an indication for the rest of the season to come as the Scots... Continue Reading →
Parking predicaments frustrate campus
KAELYN WOJTYLKO STAFF WRITER Photo by EMMA GROSSBAUER Parking has been a hot topic on campus, especially since the overnight street parking is now no longer allowed between the hours of 2 a.m. and 7 a.m. Many students have been parking in the streets since the beginning of the semester, which has taken a few... Continue Reading →
Tips to surviving hell week and exams
SYDNEY BOSSIDIS STAFF WRITER Photo by GRACE GRELAK Final exams are fast approaching—only 14 days until they begin. This means there is only one week until what students commonly refer to as “hell week”—a stressful time used by many to prepare for their upcoming tests, practice their presentations and write their last-minute papers. Stress is... Continue Reading →
Alpha Psi Omega Hosts Annual One-Act
DYLAN COUR STAFF WRITER Every year during the fall semester, the theater honorary fraternity Alpha Psi Omega hosts a play festival known as the One-Act Play Festival. The festival is student produced both in terms of direction and technical production. Every aspect of the show is created by the students. “It is a fully student... Continue Reading →
Supreme Court decide the future of DACA
CHELSEA FABER STAFF WRITER The Supreme Court of the United States heard the case made by the Trump Administration to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which allows undocumented individuals who entered the country as a child to remain in the United States legally. DREAMers were those brought to the U.S. illegally as... Continue Reading →
The Bolivian coup is a rerun
ATULYA DORA-LASKEY STAFF WRITER Reading the news regarding Bolivia over the past couple of weeks has left me thinking a lot about Jurassic Park. More specifically what the author of Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton, coined as Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. Crichton described this effect as “You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you... Continue Reading →
