ZACH CARPENTERSTAFF WRITER 3/27/2023 Alma College Women’s Lacrosse is off to a great start to their season, starting 6-0. Across the six-game win streak, the Scots have been able to play games across three states. “Our team had a breakthrough season overall last year and we have taken that momentum forward into our 2023 season,”... Continue Reading →
Alma College STUNT team has successful season
ALIVIA GILESLAYOUT EDITOR 3/13/2023 Following their most recent games on Sat., Feb. 25 and Sun., Feb. 26, the Alma College STUNT team has had a successful season. On Sat., the STUNT team took on Concordia University Ann Arbor, winning with a final score of 18 to zero. The Scots lost against Davenport University, with a... Continue Reading →
Shonda Buchanan visits Alma College
LIATHANO RAMERIEZPHOTOGRAPHER MEGAN NEELEYCOPY EDITOR 3/13/2023 Professors have expressed students’ hunger for Shonda Buchanan’s literary works. Buchanan, an award-winning poet and educator, is now working for the Master Fine Arts program in Creative Writing here at Alma College. Among her most accomplished works is her memoir, Black Indian, an intergenerational telling of Buchanan’s “large extended family... Continue Reading →
Supportive or intrusive: there’s a “Fine Line”
ALIVIA GILESLAYOUT EDITOR 2/20/2023 With out-of-the-box red-carpet looks and energetic performances, Harry Styles finds himself the center of attention at most music award shows. This year at the Grammys though, a comment Styles made had many fans making assumptions about the artist’s gender identity and sexual orientation, which are, frankly, nobody’s businesses. In his acceptance... Continue Reading →
Taking a ‘Wrecking Ball’ to double standards
LEIA LEHRERGRAPHIC DESIGNER ALIVIA GILESLAYOUT EDITOR 2/6/2023 Following album releases from Taylor Swift and SZA and Miley Cyrus’s single, ‘Flowers,’ women are dominating the music charts and breaking records. Often though, the public’s focus is not on the art itself, but rather on the personal lives of the artists. When Miley Cyrus released ‘Flowers,’ a... Continue Reading →
Alma College basketball update
KYLE SCHECKPHOTOGRAPHER MEGAN NEELEYCOPY EDITOR 1/23/2023 Out with the old and in with the new. Scots, it’s time for some basketball. Now that football – with its season full of victories – is over, the time has come to focus on the triumphs of Alma College basketball. The Alma College Men’s Basketball team has had many... Continue Reading →
New membership system at Stone Rec Center
DANIELLE NYKANENSTAFF WRITER 1/23/2023 New year, new upgrades. The start of the year marked the arrival of a new membership system for the Stone Recreation Center. This system, RecDesk, will provide a digital platform for scheduling, programs and membership information. “The reason we switched to this is because... it gives us more functionality with memberships... Continue Reading →
Sean Burke named new Alma College Provost
ZACH CARPENTERSTAFF WRITER 1/23/2023 On Dec. 14, 2022, Alma College announced that effective Jun. 1, 2023 Dr. Sean Burke will be the new Provost and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs at the College. The announcement came after a months-long search that saw many different candidates apply for the position. The application process included meetings with both faculty and students on campus... Continue Reading →
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