Play Preview: “Appointment with Death”
by Katie Milligan
The Cedarville Theater Department will present their winter production, the Agatha Christie murder mystery-drama “Appointment with Death,” for the first time on Jan. 31, 2019.
The play is based on a Christie mystery novel written in 1938. Christie herself later adapted the storyline into a play in 1945.
Set in the 1940s, the play features a large cast of over 20 characters brought together in Jerusalem by fate. This assorted group includes: the English Dr. Sara ...
Opioid Crisis – National Town Hall coming to Cedarville University
By Benjamin Smid
At 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 30th, Cedarville University’s Dixon Ministry Center will be the venue for a national town hall on the opioid crisis.
The opioid crisis is claiming hundreds of lives each day in the United States. Over the past decade, opioid overdose deaths have skyrocketed due to increased availability of the drugs and unnecessary prescriptions. In 2017, opioid overdoses killed almost 50,000 people, a nearly 100% increase in four years according to ...
‘Good Fences Make Good Neighbors’
A rhetorical analysis of Trump’s border wall
by Alexandria Hentschel
The seats of the Capitol Building were collecting dust. Government workers had stopped receiving paychecks. As of Jan. 12, the partial government shutdown had broken the record for the longest lapse in funding. The reason? An impasse over where lawmakers will find the funding in the budget for President Trump’s border wall.
It turns out Mexico isn’t ringing the doorbell at 1 Pennsylvania Avenue to hand over a giant ...
Pharmacy Students Excel In National Competition and Beyond
By Abby Shaffer
On December 1, Sarah Berman and Micah Bernard put their studies to the test in the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) clinical skills competition in Anaheim, California.
The competition gave each two-person student team a patient case. They then had two hours to come up with solutions to the patient’s problems, prepare a written plan, and present that plan to the judges.
While it was intimidating to enter a competition room filled with so many talented ...