Meet Jennifer Taggart, Cedars’ new editor-in-chief
Jennifer Taggart is a senior journalism major from northern Ohio. She first came to Cedarville as a high school student for a summer journalism camp. The past three years, she has worked as a reporter and section editor for Cedars. Watch this video for her personal story. It was produced near the end of last school year by freshman journalism student Keegan D'Alfonso, who is serving as the off-campus news editor this year.
Former Cedars Editor-in-Chief Wins SPJ Award
Anna Dembowski won second place in the Best College Feature Writing category at the Ohio’s Best Journalism Contest, sponsored by the Society of Professional Journalists. Her winning article Safe Spaces and Speech: A Wordless Battle was published in the December 2015 issue of Cedars.
Dembowski, former Cedars editor-in-chief and 2016 Cedarville journalism graduate, is now a reporter at the Community Impact Newspaper in Texas.
Ohio's Best Journalism Contest chooses winners based on the ...
Born Out of the Fires of Failure
Andy Graff hadn’t written one creative sentence since editors rejected the novel he’d spent seven years writing. Two years had passed since the manuscript he’d labored over through college, grad school and beyond found a home in his dresser drawer, never to be read by anyone else.
So he sat in front of his fireplace on a Wisconsin winter night, feeding old college papers, notes and syllabi to the flames. As he went through the boxes, throwing the reminders of his college ...
Just Sayin’…On Endings
“How did it get late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon,” Dr. Seuss wrote. “December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”
How did it get late so soon? How did the time go by so fast? I remember setting foot on campus in August 2012, wearing my LeBron James T-shirt. I remember walking through all the buildings, getting my picture taken for my student ID, connecting my laptop to Cedarville’s wireless network ...
After Scalia’s Death, What’s Next?
Supreme Court decisions in favor of conservative viewpoints could soon lean more liberal if Judge Merrick Garland is confirmed, said Kevin Sims, professor of political science at Cedarville.
President Barack Obama nominated Garland as a replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia after Scalia died on Feb. 13. Sims said Garland, current Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, is a living constitutionalist, which means he has a more liberal view of the ...
Student Spotlight – Christa Cape: Artist
Senior art major Christa Cape is one of four students who received the 2016 Yeck College Artist Fellowship from the Dayton Art Institute.
As part of this fellowship, Cape, along with three other college students, has spent the last nine weeks teaching and mentoring 14 high school art students.
“It has been really cool to watch the high school students’ progression for the last nine weeks,” Cape said. “It was fun getting the opportunity to teach, because that isn’t really ...
Running with a Purpose
For the amount of time Cedarville’s women’s 4x800-meter relay team has been running, it’s members have accomplished quite a bit.
It’s a young team. Olivia Esbenshade is the only junior, while Carsyn Koch, Carly Rose and Sarah Hoffman are all sophomores. Women’s track and field head coach Jeff Bolender said the four each bring something different to the team.
“They are all talented runners,” Bolender said. “Each of them have different strengths, but for all of them, the 800 ...
Cedarville to Launch Cybersecurity Track in Fall 2016
Cedarville University’s School of Engineering and Computer Science is launching a cybersecurity track within the computer science major for the 2016-2017 school year. In a post-Edward Snowden, Apple v. FBI age, cybersecurity is in the news nearly every day, and Cedarville's program will allow its students to be competitive in the computer science field.
According to Dark Reading, a cybersecurity news site, there is a lack in cybersecurity education. Of the top 10 computer science and ...
Sophomore Thrower Mariah Cruise Sets New School Record
Sophomore Mariah Cruise recently broke the Cedarville women's track and field team shot put record, but she said she does not want to be known just for her success on the field.
“I definitely want others to see me as being humble and using my talents for God,” Cruise said.
Cruise was first introduced to the idea of throwing in track at an early age. Her father was her high school’s track coach. She grew up around the sport and began competing during seventh grade.
“My ...
