month : 02/2025 20 results

Share the love dinner provides encouragement and community to widows for Valentine’s day

By Julia Swain  On a day known for romance, Beavercreek Christian Church is prioritizing widows by hosting a special community gathering. The “share the love” dinner, which the church hosted on Saturday, February 8, helps support attendees through fellowship, food, and entertainment, which has included trivia, a fun video, and bingo in past years. The dinner is around two and a half hours long and is put on by volunteers who help with every facet of the event.  “We came up ...

Lady Jackets Declare Victory Against Lake Erie

By Lauren Vargas After meeting their match in the Lady Jackets only a week prior, Lake Erie seemed determined to have a taste of redemption. With a 0-13 season under their belts, a win was essential to improve their rankings. Unfortunately for them, the Jackets stole the show with yet another victory, improving their record to 11-12 on the eve of Valentine’s Day by a score of 81-61. Although a definitive win for the Jackets, they struggled at times to gain control of the game, starting ...

Remembering Grace Maxwell 

By Avonlea Brown On Wednesday, Jan 29, the world received news about the deadly plane and helicopter crash in Washington D.C. On Thursday, Jan 30, Cedarville University received news that one of its students, junior Grace Maxwell, was on that flight.  Maxwell majored in Mechanical Engineering, was an on-air talent for Resound Radio and a member of the student-led writing org Inklings. Her unique personality and how she lived out her faith left imprints on the people close to ...

Cedarville falls victim to Lake Erie’s “Storm” in 23-point loss

By Emily Tuttle The Lake Erie Storm stepped onto the Cedarville University basketball court, ready to wreak havoc on the Jackets for a full 40 minutes. The Storm’s frenetic pace and unrelenting full-court press caught the Jackets in their whirlwind on February 8, where Cedarville fell to Lake Erie 74-51. Head Coach Rob Jones knew Lake Erie’s style of play was unique: fast-paced, tenacious and, unfortunately, efficient. In a one-day turnaround from their loss to Ashland, the Jackets...

Lady Jackets fall to Ashland in a tooth-and-nail brawl

By Danielle Cherry On the dreary night of February 8, the Cedarville women’s basketball team pulled all their effort together to face Ashland in a tooth-and-nail fight, where the Eagles came out on top 75-51.   After the thrilling win against Findlay a week ago, the women began with excitement and confidence. A technical issue at the beginning of the game seemed like it wouldn’t be anything more than a setback, yet the game that followed proved it messed with the Jackets' ...

‘Wolf Man’ isn’t the triumphant return to the golden age of monster films we hoped

By Ben Konuch “Sometimes when you're a daddy, you're so scared of your kids getting scars that you become the thing that scars them.” “Wolf Man” wasn’t on my radar until its masterful teaser trailer premiered in early September, and from that moment on, I couldn’t wait for its release. A reimagining of one of Universal’s classic monster films, this new take on “Wolf Man” comes from Leigh Whannell, director of one of my all-time favorite movies, 2020’s “The Invisible ...

Cedars March for Life 2025

By Sam Sofio Prior to the National March for Life, Cedarville students walked to the Washington Monument, where the rally would take place. As they approached, they heard the sound of worship getting louder and louder. On January 24th, Cedarville University’s Students for Life chapter joined tens of thousands of Pro-Life supporters from all over the nation in Washington, D.C,, for the National March for Life:A march calling for the end of the barbaric genocide of millions of babies ...

Synergy Connect helps equip students for gospel-sharing in any location   

By Sam Sofio Synergy Connect is not meant for a select few students; all Cedarville students are called to GO.  Launched September 23rd, 2024, Cedarville’s student-led Synergy Connect organization offers all students an incredible opportunity to shine the light of the Gospel in the most unreached places in the United States and around the world. “Our mission is to mobilize trained disciples to multiply healthy churches together,” said senior History major and Vice President ...

‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ is surprisingly deep

By Sophia Monastra Let me start off by saying that I’m neither a gamer nor immersed in the Sonic the Hedgehog lore. My knowledge about this speedy blue hedgehog comes from a combination of the IDW comics, previous movies, random clips of “Sonic Boom” pilfered from YouTube and Wikipedia. With that said, I know enough about Shadow the Hedgehog to have a bit more context for this movie than my companion: my younger sister, who had no exposure to Sonic the Hedgehog in any media ...

International Student Spotlight: Martin from Albania

By Sam Sofio Born in Tirana, Albania, sophomore Martin Kita has seen the love of God gently lead him both to salvation and to pursue Psychology at Cedarville University. Despite the impact the Gospel has had on Albania through the Apostle Paul, foreign countries began to occupy Albania and hinder the advancement of the Gospel. The most recent country to occupy Albania was Germany during the 1940’s. “We were a communist country,” Kita said. “We had no religion, and we were ...