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Join the Green Side, Learn About Recycling on Campus / Make McKendree Green

22Feb

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Join the Green Side, Learn About Recycling on Campus / Make McKendree Green

By Ashley Hathaway, Contributing Writer As a student of McKendree, I have always cherished the faculty and staff that encourage students to be involved highly in academics, sports, and the variety of clubs on campus. While students are constantly encouraged to be involved and often see promotion of different athletic events and club meetings across campus, I cannot recall an instance where I have been encouraged to recycle or compost while on campus. While there happens to be an occasional recycling bin throughout the classrooms and a single compost bin near the garden behind the student success center, recycling and composting seems to be lacking around McKendree. Even when recycling bins are present, it seems as if our community is lackadaisical in their efforts to recycle their waste. A...

13Feb

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Campus News, Entertainment, Opinion

Marriage Meets College

By Kyle Boldin, Contributing Writer Doves flying free, rice scattered across the courtyard, and the inevitable “I do’s” representing love and lifelong unity: this signifies a beautiful union between two or more people who genuinely treasure each other and decide to spend their lives together. As universities continue to diversify, married college students have become an ever-growing factor, and McKendree is no different. Amongst the McKendree community thrives a small percentage of students, both traditional and non-traditional alike, not only achieving bachelors but also saying “I do.” While the majority of marriages in college often occur between non-traditional students, traditional students have tied the knot as well. According to senior Kelsey Schultz, “I knew I wanted to marry my hu...

8Feb

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Campus Events, Campus News

Banned Books Brown Bag

By Alec Deyong, Contributing Writer Featured image from Freedom to Read Foundation A man rents several books from a public library. These books, however, represent an idea that he doesn’t agree with. So, why is he renting them? Well, to burn them on a public forum for all to see. This is an archaic but familiar concept to most that might make you think of the Nazi book burnings and other malicious acts of censorship. This particular event though is not a story from our distant past—this happened just last year in Orange City, Iowa and was streamed on Facebook Live. Burning books has long been a symbol of censorship and oppression by restricting information. In modern times, the practice is seen almost exclusively in movies and, ironically, in history books. This might lead many to assum...

30Jan

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Campus News

Mission Trip to Poland

By Magdalena Knapp, Editor Photos: Emily Barylske Emily Barylske is a junior from McKendree University. Emily didn’t spend her summer like most students did working in a hometown restaurant for $8 an hour: She went on a mission trip to Poland. What she experienced and how her faith helped to change one person’s life for good are only a few of the experiences she shared with the McKendree community during last week’s Brown Bag. Emily Barylske travelled with a team of volunteers to Poland for two weeks over the summer. Despite being the youngest member on the team, her impact was huge. Over the two weeks Emily was in charge of a group of 7-9 year olds in an Indian village that has been set up by the organization she travelled with and has been growing over the years. Emily’s tribe was cal...

28Jan

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Campus News

Disabling Our Progress

Katherine Gemmingen, Head Copyeditor The following article represents the author's opinion about a specific topic. The information is backed up and was proof read by our editors. Freedom of speech is part of the First Amendment of the US Constitution and therefore has every writer the right to share his or her opinion. Feel free to email your editors about any issues with the article or leave your comment here. It’s hard to disagree with the idea of McKendree University boasting a scenic campus. The view of the front lawn from Bothwell Chapel is one that stuns in every season as the trees change. The quad is picturesque, mostly thanks to the meticulous grooming done by the grounds crew. As much as we students may complain about the age of Old Main, there’s something awe-inspiring about th...

25Jan

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Campus Events, Campus News, Sports

The Story of a Walk On

By Jawaun Jackson, Contributing Writer Photo: Jawaun Jackson For starters, I walked onto a non-NCAA team here at McKendree, so technically I just joined a sport club in terms of bureaucracy. However, I have always seen it as I walked on to a championship winning program. In comparison, McKendree to bowling is the same as University of Alabama to football. I found myself being the weak link of a dynasty destined organization. There was also this chip on my shoulder because I lacked skill compared to my new-found teammates, and it didn’t help that they were some of the best amateur bowlers in the nation. Now, to the comedic part of my story. When applying to this great institution I accidentally put golf instead of bowling as my sport due to a mouse and keypad snafu that I did not notice f...

21Jan

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Advice, Campus News

Getting sick? Not with us!

By Magdalena Knapp, EditorPictures: google.com, mckendree.edu A college student has a stressful life: You rush from one class to the next one, to the library, the computer lab, study groups, study tables, and many other places. The minutes between one class and the following are counted, and you sometimes barely have time to use the bathroom or check your phone, not imagining time to get sick! The campus and dorms are great places to be around for students, but also for bacteria. A dorm room is the perfect environment for all sorts of diseases and infections. To avoid getting sick, we can need all the help we can get. The McKendree Review talked to Lesa Auten, medical assistant from McKendree University and found out some helpful tips for you to stay healthy and kick off this spring semes...

12Nov

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Campus Events, Campus News, News

Honoring National Veterans Day

By Magdalena Knapp, Editor On Sunday, November 11th, the United States of America stands still for a day to honor all men and women who served in the military for their country. Most of us have someone in our family who has either served as an active member in one of the many wars, or was somehow involved in the military. Once a year on the same day, America unites and pays their respect for those who have served, lost their lives in the war, and dedicated everything they had to their country. McKendree University does the same. Since Thursday of last week we can observe an enormous amount of miniature American flags draping the walkways on our campus. Dr. James Dennis gave the order to lower the flag between the PAC building and Voigt Science Hall to half-mast in order to honor our veter...

9Nov

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Campus News, Local News, News, Perspective

Reflections: McKendree survivors

By Nathan Ploense, Contributing Writer A year at McKendree cannot go by where Residence Life holds its famed Sex in the Dark program. While usually aimed at freshman, it offers the opportunity for students to ask sex and gender questions, in a judgment free area, and receive general answers back. Though proven to be a popular program on campus, many students feel that it has started to run its course and become stale. Not even the offer of free food is necessarily enough to get people out of their room or break from their busy schedules to participate. However, a new program was put in the works when Resident Assistant Elizabeth Graham wanted to re-create the old program into something that explored heavier, less talked about topics. The beginning of the event – Michael Calhoun When...

Hidden Victors – Forgotten teams of McKendree

7Nov

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Hidden Victors – Forgotten teams of McKendree

By Jackson Jawaun Pictures: McKendree University In the shadow of the mainstream sports at McKendree live some successful programs. Programs that are not too known to the student body. From the outside looking in McKendree sports is much more than Football and Basketball. There is Bass Fishing, Bowling, Swimming, and many others who are all very successful yet unknown to the population of McKendree. These programs do not receive the same exposure as more popular sports, and for some their only platform is the athletic site which is expected but football is exposed to students through mediums of social media and McKendree email. Every person with a @McKendree.edu email receives a message about McKendree football coming almost a week in advance. It is known across campus rather if the team ...