Cedars wins top awards in Ohio News Media Association collegiate newspaper contest
COLUMBUS – Cedars won its sixth straight Frank E. Deaner Award as the best small-college newspaper in Ohio at the recent Ohio News Media Association Convention.
Cedars placed first in seven of the 10 categories in Division B for schools with enrollment under 10,000. Eight schools entered the competition.
The Cedars placed first as a staff in the following categories:
News coverage ahead of Capital and Xavier. The judge cited broad campus and community coverage that ties in well ...
Nursing Honors Society hosts missions seminars
By Mariah Hines
The Nursing Honor Society is currently hosting Monday Night Missions, a ten-week mission series geared towards giving students insights from a professor’s past missionary experiences. The series began as a personal project of Abigail Patton, president of the Nursing Honor Society.
Referencing a missions trip to Honduras she was apart of with her church, Patton said many people did not seem to have the right mindset. They got to spend time with the people, share with them ...
Movie Review: ‘Peter Rabbit’
by Ian Sarmiento
“Peter Rabbit,” based on the classic tale by Beatrix Potter and directed by Will Gluck, hopped into theaters last week. The film invites audiences into a new adventure with the Rabbit family as they defend their home from a new threat.
Peter Rabbit (James Corden) is a whimsical, smart, and mischievous . He and his family live in a burrow with one goal: find food. Easy, right? Especially since they live next to a food garden. If only it wasn’t owned by the McGregor ...
ELML Gives Staff and Students a Chance to Love Their Neighbors
By Hannah Day
Cedarville University’s staff and students will be sharing the spirit of love and friendship of Valentine’s Day by assembling packages to help those in need at the Love Your Neighbor event.
This year’s event is the second annual Love Your Neighbor event held at the university, hosted by the English Literature and Modern Languages department. The purpose of this event is to remind students that there are more types of love to celebrate on Valentine’s Day than romantic ...
Play Review: ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’
by Kaileigh Willis
Cedarville’s Department of Art, Design, and Theatre performed its first showing of “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” on Thursday, Feb. 1.
The story follows the four Pevensie children, Peter (Zachary Krauss), Susan (Heather Lange), Edmund (Hunter Johnson) and Lucy (Anna Luttenegger) as they enter the land of Narnia through a wardrobe in their uncle’s spare room. Upon discovering this new realm, the four children encounter many mystical creatures such as a faun ...
The Foreign Film Series Kicks Off It’s 14th Year This Month
by Gary Phillips
In 2004 Dan Clark, Associate professor of English, and Andrew Wiseman, Professor of Spanish, came up with the idea of the Foreign Film Series, a selection of films that are produced in other countries that show the culture in which they are filmed. After gaining approval in spring of 2004, they were able to fund the first series through a gift from the Student Life department and they were able to screen the first film in spring of 2005. Since the first semester, the FFS has ...
The Variable in the Vaccine
Why This Year’s Flu Season is the Worst in a Decade
By Breanna Beers
Flu season is now in full swing, and for an illness with a vaccine readily available since the 1940’s, the virus seems to be running rampant across the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), this year’s flu season is may be worse than any in nearly a decade, and is nowhere close to being over yet.
There are several different categories of influenza strains, broken down by the proteins on ...
Congress In Turmoil Over Immigration
What’s Happening With DACA and the Wall?
by Alexandria Hentschel
The United States legislature is battling over immigration, a standoff which was the main cause of the January’s government shutdown.
On the table are two vastly different proposals. First, the Consideration of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) bill, which is up for renewal and offers certain people who came to the United States as children and meet several guidelines the opportunity for consideration of ...
Students Care More About Who They Live With Than Where
by Shelby McGuire
Dorm selections for the 2018-2019 school year are quickly approaching, and it’s time for students to start thinking about where they want to live--or rather, who they want to live with. The deciding factor for dorm selections for most students is the community.
For some, dorm selections are a no brainer--they’ve had the perfect room in their favorite dorm for the past few years, and they aren’t moving an inch. Others, however, are ready for a change and a new ...
Cedarville Falls in Overtime Against Malone
by Tim Miller
The Cedarville Yellow Jackets (10-10, 5-8 G-MAC) suffered a gut-wrenching loss to Malone on Tuesday night in overtime, 84-82. The loss drops Cedarville to ninth place in the conference, leaving them out of the G-MAC Conference Tournament at this point.
Four players reached double figures in scoring for Cedarville. Those four combined for an 88 percent share in the Yellow Jackets’ scoring.
Sophomore guard Colton Linkous scored 20 points to lead the Yellow Jackets. Freshman ...
