Cedarville’s most Passionate Sport: Club Rugby
By Danielle Cherry
A circle of blue and yellow moves in unison across the grassy soccer-length field.
“Oooh ole ole; ole tiki tonga; a wasa wasa wasa; oooh aliyah aliyah aliyah”
Excitement is tangible in the air as the team echoes the chant, quietly at first, almost an unheard whisper in the field. Then, a singular scream penetrates the atmosphere, and a cry rises up from the team. Bouncing off of each other and jumping with all their might, the Cedarville men’s rugby team ...
Global Outreach’s Local Teams make an Impac
By Julia Swan
Students bring hope to the hopeless through jail ministry
“We exist to bring hope to the hopeless,” said fourth-year M-Div student Owen Dorrity. “We want to engage in the Great Commission. The Lord tells us in Matthew 28 to go therefore and make disciples of all nations. And that’s just something we just want to see realized in every aspect of the world and inour community.”
This student-run mission involves sending students such as Dorrity to jails ...
What is woke?
By Janie Walenda
The day before the new Marvel television show “Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man” debuted, its lead voice actor Hudson Thames sparked controversy in a conversationwith Collider.
“I mean, my biggest fear was that it was gonna be annoying and woke, and it wasn’t, and I was like ‘Yes this is great, it’s so well written.’”
When viewers tuned in the following day, the controversy quickly turned to confusion. Within the first two episodes ...
Haven Sidell: Managing Costume Creation
By Katlynn Rossignol
“You think of the stereotypical costumer; and she’s like, frizzed and frazzled and running around and always has a measuring tape on her neck,” said Haven Sidell, Cedarville University’s costume shop manager. “The number of times I’ve left the shop and forgotten to take my measuring tape off my neck is so many. It’s definitely a stereotype for a reason.”
It’s hard to describe the vast scale of the costume shop storage hidden on the ...
Sidelining Sundays: The impact of youth sports
By Emily Tuttle
You’ve seen it before: dozens of five-year-old girls running around on a soccer field dressed in purple jerseys, worried more about picking dandelions than putting the ball in the goal.
The game doesn’t stop at five. As these children grow up, weekends are full of traveling to the next state for a tournament. And parents continue to swipe their credit cards for uniforms, team fees, hotels and anything needed for their child to succeed.
But should success be ...
‘The Last of Us’ season two starts quiet but strong
By Ben Konuch
“You can't heal something unless you're brave enough to say it out loud.”
When “The Last of Us” premiered on HBO in 2022, it quickly became one of the most well-received video game adaptations of all time. Following a harrowing journey across a violent post-apocalyptic America, HBO’s “The Last of Us” focused more on the human drama of loss, grief and love than it did on action. Anchored by stellar lead performances by Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey, the series ...
‘Severance’ season two immerses audiences in a split reality
By Teagan Warren
Many people crave to escape the tedious, stressful or confining nature of work. These people live for life’s adventures and pleasantries. Other individuals find their refuge in work from difficult home situations, enjoying the empowerment of doing good work. If these ideas connect with you, perhaps I could interest you in a procedure called “severance.”
In season one of the hit television series “Severance,” Mark Scout received this procedure to escape his ...
‘A Minecraft Movie’ is certainly a movie about Minecraft
By Sophia Monastra
I have one game on my computer, and it’s Minecraft. There’s something about it–the sleepy villages, the ruins left by unknown people, the horrifying mobs that crawl out at night, the strange and unusual biomes and the general vastness of the open world that keeps on calling me back. I don’t play as much as I should, but Minecraft has been a way for me to connect with my younger sister, whether we’re watching an SMP on YouTube or playing side by side on different ...
The princess saves herself in ‘MAYHEM’s’ story
By Justin Kemp
Mother Monster is back with what fans and critics are calling her best album yet. While not the unleashed, grungy, dark-pop sound fans expected from lead single “Disease” and the album’s promo, Lady Gaga’s “MAYHEM” is an immaculately crafted experience through the inner turmoil of an artist who has spent half her life in the limelight. Its bombastic, gothic exterior quickly reveals a beating heart full of pain and ready to embrace its fractured pieces in all their ...
‘House of David’ episodes 4-6 are a weaker journey with a thrilling conclusion
By Ben Konuch
“It is not about the greatness of man, it is about the greatness of God!”
Prime Video’s “House of David” had a phenomenal first half of a season, with deep storytelling and characterization of its characters that brought a well-known Bible story to life. Filled with surprisingly intense action and intriguing political tension, “House of David” was off to a fantastic start across its first four episodes. Its second half, however, began to show some cracks that ...
