To celebrate Passover, Allegheny College Hillel hosted a campus-wide Passover Seder in Schultz Banquet Hall on Wednesday, April 12.
Passover is one of the most important holidays in the Jewish religion,...
Allegheny Student Government named Captain Mark Kelly as Gator of the Year for 2017. Kelly delivered a speech entitled “Endeavor to Succeed” in Ford Chapel on Wednesday, April 5, at 7 p.m.
“I have...
The presence of the monks on campus highlighted political tensions and the conflicting history between Tibet and China and caused some of the Chinese students to feel upset and uncomfortable.
Sen Rong,...
Seven Buddhist monks from the Drepung Loseling Monastery in South India visited Allegheny College from Monday, Feb. 27 to Sunday, March, 4. The monks are touring with The Mystical Art of Tibet world...
Sojourners Christian Fellowship held the third of a three-part Religion and Social Change Series during their weekly meeting in the Henderson Campus Center on Wednesday, Feb. 22. The sessions were discussion-based...
Children from the Allegheny and Meadville communities gathered in the David V. Wise Center on Friday, Feb. 10 for Allegheny Women’s Lacrosse team’s fundraising event “Kid’s Night Out.”
The lacrosse...
Rosanna Reyes spoke about increasing accessibility to higher education for first-generation students on Thursday, Feb. 16, at 7 p.m. in the Quigley Hall Auditorium. The lecture was part of the lecture...
An opening reception for the “Persuasion” exhibit in the Doane Hall of Art in the Bowman-Penelec-Megahan Galleries was held on Tuesday, Jan. 24. The exhibit, which will run until Feb. 21, presents...
Members of the Allegheny College community gathered in Schultz Banquet Hall on Thursday, Dec. 1, for a bake-off organized by students in the communication arts “Media Theory and Practice” class. All...
Students from the first-year seminar titled “Meadville’s Military Matters,” and the biology class “Physiology of Vision” presented posters on their community-engaged research projects in the...
Brian Miller, visiting associate professor of history, traveled with a group of 18 students to Denison University for a symposium entitled, “Crossing Borders: Refugees, Youth, and Higher Education,”...
Peterson Toscano, performance artist, gay activist and Bible scholar, visited Allegheny from Tuesday, Oct. 16, to Thursday, Oct. 20, as part of the college’s Year of Mindfulness. During his time on...
Allegheny College Board of Trustees member Sue Steven and her husband, Craig Blasingame, cycled the old Route 66 road from California to Chicago. They began in August and the trip took them six weeks in...
The lobby of the Henderson Campus Center filled with Arabic music, dancing, food and culture as Allegheny and Meadville community members joined Project Nur, Allegheny’s Muslim awareness group, for its...
The Allegheny and greater Meadville community gathered in Shafer Auditorium on Thursday, Sept. 22, for the inaugural Allegheny Listens: A Dialogue on Islamophobia.
The dialogue consisted of two main...
The Office of Spiritual and Religious Life and the college Counseling Center held An Opportunity to Reflect at 4 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 19, in Ford Chapel following the bombings in New York City and New...
Approximately 35 students came together to develop, write and perform six plays in 24 hours for the third annual Student Experimental Theatre 24 Hour Theatre Fest. The fest began at 7 p.m. on Friday,...
Meaghan Wilby, Science/International Editor
• April 29, 2016
Allegheny College’s Creek Connections hosts its 21st student research symposium in the lobby of the Henderson Campus Center on Friday, April 29. This is the second symposium of the year where participating...
Meaghan Wilby, Science/International Editor
• April 21, 2016
A “Dump the Trump” craft beer and a “Make America Regurgitate Again” sick bag are just a few examples of ways the world is reacting to Donald Trump’s bid for presidency.
A craft brewery in New...
Meaghan Wilby, Science/International editor
• February 11, 2016
Two separate Mellon Grants funded six study tours since 2012, with the final tour traveling to Cuba in January 2016.
The first three tours travelled to Morocco and Egypt in winter 2011 and Israel in 2013....
Meaghan Wilby, Science/International Editor
• February 4, 2016
Naisy Flannery, ’16, traveled to Costa Rica over winter break 2015-16 to work as a volunteer in a sea turtle conservation program. She also worked as a volunteer in Cloud Forest conserving and maintaining...
Tree trunks and stumps on the ground after logging efforts in the forest at The Andrew Wells Robertson Athletic and Recreation Complex on Dec. 3, 2015.
Meaghan Wilby, Science/International Editor
• November 19, 2015
Will Schmitt, the French teaching assistant, was coming home from Pelletier Library. Ben Ziolkowski, ’17, was in a hotel room preparing for his last away football game of the season. Amasa Smith, ’17,...
Meaghan Wilby, Science/International Editor
• October 29, 2015
Allegheny College is currently in the third week of its annual energy challenge. At the end of week two, energy usage has been reduced by a total of 64,277 kilowatt hours and $5,518 has been saved as...
Meaghan Wilby, Science/International Editor
• October 1, 2015
The Allegheny College and Meadville communities celebrated Eid al-Adha in the lobby of the Henderson Campus Center on Thursday Oct. 1.
Eid al-Adha is one of two main holidays in Islam.
The Office of...
The Allegheny College International club meets every second week and hosts events every semester for international students and the rest of the student population to attend. The club kicked off the year...
Meaghan Wilby, Science and International Editor
• September 17, 2015
The International Education Office is offering six Experiential Learning Seminars for summer 2016.
According to the Allegheny College website the seminars are worth two or four credits and the trips last...
Meaghan Wilby, Science and International Editor
• September 10, 2015
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Economics at Lawrence University, David Gerard gave a presentation on Monday, Sept. 7 in Quigley Hall about the economics and politics of climate change.
It...
Meaghan Wilby, Science and International Editor
• September 3, 2015
The department of modern and classical languages hosted its welcome-back picnic on Wednesday, Sept. 2. The picnic is an annual catered event for all declared majors and minors in the department. Students...
Meaghan Wilby, Science and International Editor
• August 27, 2015
At move-in on Aug. 22 every new freshmen received a stainless steel, Bisphenol A free water bottle as a result of work done by the Fall 2014 Environmental Science 210 class. The class conducted a survey...
Meaghan Wilby, Science and International Editor
• August 21, 2015
Thais Guimarães
Brazil
Exchange student – one year
Campus: What is your first impression of Allegheny?
Guimarães: “The people are very receptive and friendly, really, really friendly.”
Campus:...
Meaghan Wilby, Science and International Editor
• August 21, 2015
Thirty-two new international students from 13 different countries joined the Allegheny community this year. This group is compiled of degree seeking students, exchange students and teaching assistants....
Meaghan Wilby, Junior Science/International Editor
• April 16, 2015
Salah Algabli arrived at Allegheny in August, now he may never be able to return home. Algabli is the Arabic Fulbright foreign language teaching assistant for this academic year. His visa expires in June,...
Meaghan Wilby, Junior Science/International Editor
• March 26, 2015
Allegheny College’s International Education Office is implementing a new Culture 2 Culture Peer Mentoring Program that will begin in the 2015 fall semester. The program intends to help incoming international...
Meaghan Wilby, Junior Science/International Editor
• February 5, 2015
Assistant professor of economics Jialu Liu Streeter is currently conducting research on the environmental cost of China’s international trade. According to Streeter, her research aims to connect international...
Welcome to holiday season in America. Here people go from stuffing themselves full of turkey to preparing to stuff stockings all in the span of less than 48 hours. Christmas music has been playing non-stop...
On Nov. 23, Allegheny’s International Club hosted its annual International Dinner in Schultz Banquet Hall. The event was attended by international and domestic students, as well as faculty, their families...
As part of a summer internship, Jessica Mazzoni, ’15, spent more than two months living in Nyadire, Zimbabwe with her friend, Natalie Geer, a student from Ohio Wesleyan. While Geer spent her time studying...
Senior Jacqueline Coplen, a finalist for the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, found out last night, Saturday, Nov. 22, that she did not receive the prestigious fellowship. In a text message to The Campus...
What is Internationalization? As in international student and the beat reporter for international life at Allegheny, I’m still not entirely sure. What I do know is that we have an International Teaching...
Chants for M.V.P. rang through the David V. Wise Center on Tuesday, Nov. 18, as Japanese student Ryo Ishibashi, ’18, jogged off the blue court after being knocked out in the final of the International...
Jacqueline Coplen, ’15, has been selected as a finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. If Coplen is selected, she will be the first Allegheny student to be a Rhodes Scholar. The Rhodes scholarship, one...
As part of an assignment for class this week I did a job shadow at The Meadville Tribune. The assignment was to pick a journalist, contact him and then follow him round for six to eight hours to get a...
Draft. Reread. Edit. Read. Edit more. Read, reread, reread. Edit, edit, edit. Read. Have someone else read it. Drive yourself crazy as the words on the page become ingrained in your mind. You re-arrange...
Being a student journalist is hard: You have to be able to juggle classes, homework, friends, food, sleep, in my case a varsity sport and then, somehow, on top of all that, manage to find sources, put...
Different food, different customs, different culture and, for 69 out of the 75 international students, a different language as well.
Welcome to life as an international student at Allegheny College....
For over 20 years the Max Kade Foundation has funded the Writer-in-Residence Program at Allegheny College. The program funds a professional and often renowned German writer to live on campus and teach...
This week’s post is going to be about my beat. Not in some ‘links to greater journalistic ideas’ way but in a very specific, deals with a problem that is tied to the idea of trying to write an international...
I think this is probably the most reiterated statement I’ve heard in Journalism 320 since the beginning of the semester and from various different outlets too. We’ve been lucky enough to have several...
It was my first, real official story. I’d gone to the meeting. Listened to the editors speak and voluntarily raised my hand to write about the Chinese Mid Autumn Moon Festival. I had no idea what that...
Meaghan Wilby, Contributing writer
• September 25, 2014
The International Club hosted their annual fall picnic on the lawn outside North Village I on Sunday, Sept. 14. Food representing a variety of different cultures was provided by the club. Most of the food...