Senior Jacob Gerkin earned all American honors at the NCAA championships on March 10. The deciding match was a repeat of the final round of the RMAC where he faced Cal Baptist’s Daxton Gordon. In the RMAC championship, Gerkin lost 10-4, but at the NCAA tournament Gerkin pulled ahead in the end of the neck…
If you are like me, your go-to energy booster is coffee. However, this does not always work and is not always the best way to get more energy. `There are four avenues through which you can boost energy: moving, resting, lifestyle, and diet. The first way to get more energy is to move. If you…
On Mar. 8 to 11, members of the Varsity Swim Team competed in the NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving championships in Birmingham, Alabama. The Orediggers competing in individual events were Brennan Mays, Carrie Kralovec, April Wood, and Mia Wood. They were joined by Lilly Creswick, Josh Graber, Loki Hondorf, Ethan Pfeiffer, and Josh Schechter…
As the regular basketball season wraps up, so do the efforts of the student fan club Blue Crew. Associate Athletic Director Kathryn Burke joined the athletics administration team during early autumn this past year, and has jumped right into her role since then. One of Burke’s most notable accomplishments since joining staff has been the…
Feb. 27-Mar. 3 is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week. Eating disorders, which are often misunderstood, are classified as mental health disorders because that is exactly what they are: mental illnesses expressed with disordered eating behaviors. There are many different manifestations of eating disorders (EDs). The three main EDs are anorexia nervosa (deliberate starvation accompanied by…
Gokul Natesan is a senior who has helped the men’s basketball team excel to first place RMAC finish this year. He has gained many accolades over the years, notably 2016-2017 RMAC Academic Player of the Year and a second consecutive nomination for the Bevo Francis Award. Natesan finished the regular season with 1210 career points…
Pisces: Crazy couple of months, eh? All of the Winter holidays really makes you think, “You know what I want for my birthday? To change my clock!” If your birthday is March 12, happy birthday, you get minus one hour! If it’s not, well, you can’t exactly keep yours, either. Unless you’re in Arizona or…
In the sheltered environment of college, sometimes we don’t realise that certain issues are still present in our society, especially in the world of animal trade. As humans who believe that we are superior to other animals, we habitually endanger species by pushing them toward extinction. Although there are no good reasons for killing a…
Censorship is long proclaimed as one of the worst moral crimes against the press or the people’s voice. Oppressive, in fact. But where is the line drawn on what is and what is not censorship? I argue that censorship only occurs when the platform being controlled is a public platform. Twitter and Facebook have both…
On Feb. 24, the Crossroads Theater held the Confidence Omenai Send Off Show. This event was part of a series of slam poetry events put on by the local Slam Nuba. “WE CUT HEADS!” This is the epitaph the audience echos at every mention of the poetry team. Slam Nuba is a very competitive group…