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Meaghan Wilby, Features Editor

Meaghan is an English major and double psychology and German minor from New Zealand who also plays on the women’s basketball team.

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Professor of Art History Richard Schindler and Assistant Professor of Art Steve Prince discuss one of the pieces on display in the Doane Hall of Art in the Bowman-Penelec-Megahan Galleries on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017. The exhibition includes propoganda posters from World War I and II and Puerto Rico, as well as photographs from World War II.

‘Persuasion’ presents progaganda projects

Meaghan Wilby, Features Editor January 26, 2017

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...

Allison Cosgrove, ’18, and Lindsay McParlane, ’18, sell tickets for the bake-off on Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016. All proceeds were donated to Hope, Help, Harvest, a nonprofit, student-run organization that raises money for food banks in Crawford County.

Bake your heart out for Hope, Help, Harvest

Meaghan Wilby, Features Editor December 1, 2016

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...

Projects promote positivity in communities

Meaghan Wilby, Features Editor December 1, 2016

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...

Symposium humanizes immigrant experience

Meaghan Wilby, Features editor November 17, 2016

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, delivers his one-man presentation “There’s Something Gay About Climate Change” in Grounds for Change on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2016. Toscano used comedic relief through monologues and character changes to look at queer responses to climate change.

Sexuality, mindfulness and climate change

Meaghan Wilby, Features editor October 20, 2016

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...

Board of Trustees member Sue Steven, ’75, and her husband, Craig Blasingame, pose in front of a Route 66 sign in Chicago, Illinois at the end of their bike trip from California to Chicago on Oct. 2, 2016.

College Trustee takes on Route 66

Meaghan Wilby, Features editor October 13, 2016

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...

Students bring a slice of Islam to campus

Students bring a slice of Islam to campus

Meaghan Wilby, Features editor September 29, 2016

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...

College reflects on recent bombings

Meaghan Wilby, Features Editor September 22, 2016

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...

Menachem Lattke, ’18, participates in SET’s third annual 24 Hour Theatre Fest on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016 in Arter Little Theatre.

SET hosts annual 24 Hour Theatre Fest

Meaghan Wilby, Features editor September 8, 2016

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,...

Creek Connections holds annual research symposium

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...

International perceptions on the Donald

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...

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Allegheny faculty, staff and administrators pose for a group photo on the Falljokull glacier during the Iceland study tour in May 2015.

Staff return from final study tour

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....

World unites for Paris

World unites for Paris

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,...

Annual energy challenge in progress

Annual energy challenge in progress

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...

Alex Bakus, ’17, has his photo taken at the promotional photo booth for the Sri Lanka EL Seminar on Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2015.

Summer EL trips open for applications

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...

David Gerard gives presentation on climate change

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...

Arabic Teaching Assistant Salah Algabi, Associate Professor of Arabic Reem Hilal with daughter Uswah and Jochen Richter, German professor socialize at the picnic.

Language department hosts annual event

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...

ES class spurs sustainable changes on campus

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...

International meet and greet

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:...

The new international students pose for their first group photo in front of Brooks Hall on Thursday, Aug 20.

Thirty-two international students join Allegheny

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....

Reflections

Meaghan Wilby, Staff Writer December 5, 2014

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...

Risa Kondo, ‘18, wore a traditional Japanese yukata, representing one of five countries in the fashion show during the International Dinner on Nov. 23.

International Club hosts multicultural dinner

Meaghan Wilby, Staff Writer December 4, 2014

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...

Internationalization

Meaghan Wilby, Staff Writer November 21, 2014

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...

Job Shadow

Meaghan Wilby, Staff Writer November 14, 2014

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...

“Whoops” – Making Mistakes

Meaghan Wilby, Staff Writer November 7, 2014

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...

International Problems

Meaghan Wilby, Staff Writer October 25, 2014

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...

Keeping up Relationships

Meaghan Wilby, Staff Writer October 17, 2014

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...

Deep End?

Meaghan Wilby, Staff Writer October 16, 2014

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...

Photo courtesy of the the International Club.

International club shares cultures

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...

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