Month: December 2021

By Haley Rey, Editor in Chief Photos from Jamari Johnson, Abigail Kishimoto, Haley Rey, and shutterstock.com For a few of us at McKendree Media, it is time to say goodbye. Abigail Kishimoto, Jamari Johnson, and I (Haley Rey) are all graduating this month, and you will not be hearing from us anymore. Here are a few words we’d like to leave you with, to say goodbye…  Abigail Kishimoto, Head Culture Co-Writer: This semester has flown by! I feel like it was just yesterday that I joined the McKendree Review team, and I am sad to see it end so soon. Writing is something I have always enjoyed, but I did not really appreciate how much it could give you a voice until this year. If I could change one thing, I would have gotten involved with the Review before my last semester he...

By Abigail Kishimoto, Head Culture Co-Writer Photo from news.lvhn.org Congratulations everybody, the fall semester is quickly coming to a close, and we did so without a COVID-19 shutdown! These times have been very unprecedented for universities everywhere, and McKendree has navigated these challenges exquisitely. If current events have taught us anything, it is to be prepared for things to change at any moment. By this line of thinking, many professors continued to structure their classes to be able to switch to remote learning quickly if need be. For many, this meant more final projects instead of final exams, and schedules that could be easily adjusted if a shutdown did occur. Looking back, McKendree students have been very lucky to have had the opportunity to return to campus...

By Kenneth Glidden, Head Culture Co-Writer Photos from McKendree University Most Students here have heard about the Public Safety Office, or “PubSafe,” as most like to call them. As written on the Public Safety page of our university’s website, “Public Safety is responsible for maintaining a safe and orderly environment on the campus; assisting members of the University community as needed; responding to emergency situations including fire alarms, inclement weather alarms, and other incidents; and enforcing parking and other university policies.” Most students, however, don’t know much about the officers of public safety, what they do, or what services they provide for us students. Caleb Law, a junior here at McKendree, might be a good example of the average student when asked wh...