Learning to Live Without Social Media
By Heidi Raine
I recently friended my best friend’s mother on Facebook. The interaction went like this:“Heidie, you have a Facebook? I thought it was for old people.”“Haha yeah, I guess...do you have one?”“Yes! Friend me!”Kimber is now one of my 738 friends, a number that feels ob-scene but also doesn’t begin to capture all of my family, high school classmates, coworkers, old teachers, church friends, college friends, camp friends, sis-ter’s-church’s friends and obscure ...
On Staring
By Heidie Raine
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
–Flannery O’Connor
Sitting in the library, looking through the thick-paned glass of the upper-level windows, I am staring. I am squinting and watching and questioning all that passes below. This is what I see:
I see a boy with olive cargo pants and a faint mustache topple off his longboard, roll like a bowling ball and land in the frosted crunch of cold spring ...
Campus Security Protects and Serves the University
by Noah Tang
The Campus Security department helps to keep Cedarville University safe (as crimes still occur here in the cornfields). It includes several full-time and part-time officers. Full-timers are senior-ranking officers while part-time officers include student officers, who are called cadet officers.
Junior criminal justice major William Geist has served on Campus Security as a cadet officer for almost two years, including breaks. He joined Campus Security because “it is a unique ...
Cedarville University Leaves a Major Impact on a Graduating Senior
by Anna Harman
Hannah Salyer is a senior an d soon-to-be graduate at Cedarville University. She will graduate with her Bachelor’s degree in Professional Writing and Information Design with a Bible minor.
During her time at Cedarville, she has developed an understanding of what genuine friendships and a good, Christ-centered community should look like. She made many lifelong friends who are some of her dearest brothers and sisters in Christ. Salyer feels that she is more open and ...
Cedarville Freshman Receives Adversity Scholarship from NFL Legend
By Alan Brads
Molly Goodman, a freshman at Cedarville University, refuses to be defined as “the sick girl” but rather as an overcomer of adversity.
During her freshman year of high school, Goodman started exhibiting symptoms of ulcerative colitis, a debilitating and incurable bowel disease.
“Some of the symptoms of my illness through high school were extreme tiredness and weakness, and that’s added on top of the side effects from medication,” Goodman said.
She missed ...
The 2000s Are Making a Comeback
By Anna Harman
It’s crazy to think that the 2000s began over 20 years ago. Many current Cedarville students were born in the early 2000s, and it hardly feels like it was so long ago. It’s common that fashion changes over the years. People often get bored with certain looks and create new ones or go back to old ones that were retired for a while. In this case, 2000s fashion trends seem to be making a comeback in 2022.
The 2000s were notorious for awkward style choices such as low-rise ...
Biophysics Society Promotes Biblical Worldview in Science
by Noah Tang
Early last semester, several faculty members and science majors started the Biophysics Association (BPA) at Cedarville University. It functions as the Cedarville chapter of the global Biophysical Society (BPS). Both organizations exist to promote a better understanding of how physics intersects with other fields of science.
On its website, the Biophysical Society defines biophysics as “The field that applies the theories and methods of physics to understand how biological ...
Jaklyn Cato Glorifies God through Her Passion for Flowers
By Anna Harman
Jaklyn Cato is the owner of The Village Petaler, an in-home floral shop right here in Cedarville. She is a wife and a mother of three boys, running her own business with the creative help of family and friends. They moved back to the area a little over a year and a half ago.
The Village Petaler began with her wedding in September 2011. She really began to work with flowers at her sisters’ weddings. She continued receiving more opportunities to work and the more she ...
SGA Gives a Voice to the Student Body
By Jewell Strock
The Student Government Association at Cedarville University serves to provide a voice for the student body, encourages involvement on campus, develops campus morale and enhances the quality of student life.
Senior Sage Showers (left) and Junior Zach Forehand (right) are the rising SGA president and vice president for the 2022-2023 school year
The head of SGA is the president and vice president. These roles are important because they impact the student body. SGA held a ...
The Impacts of The Russia-Ukraine War on The Global Economy
By Esther Fultz
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the world economy is in a shaky place at best. Supply chain disruptions, high rates of unemployment and increasing inflation are impacting the lives of millions, both throughout the United States and across the world. Russia’s recent invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing conflict that resulted is only expected to exacerbate these challenges. Many of these disturbances are already being witnessed, with the obvious example of skyrocke...
