Celebration Day has replaced Gator Day for the spring semester 2017. Instead of hosting Gator Day in the middle of the semester, Celebration Day is scheduled for May 2, 2017, the day after classes end.
Terry...
Shane Bauer, a senior reporter for Mother Jones, visited Allegheny College to give two talks on April 7 and April 8 as part of “The Injustices of the Justice System” conference hosted by the Student...
The softball team will begin its season on Saturday, March 11 in a doubleheader against Washington and Jefferson College. This season’s captains are outfielder Taylor Massart, ’17; first baseaman Abrianna...
Levi Lundell, ’17, won the People’s Choice Award for PPFF’s Stewardship Video Contest on Jan. 30. The project was due Jan. 17.
The film, titled “Leaving the Right Mark,” can now be found on...
Shannan Mattiace, chair of the political science department, edited part of “The Handbook of Latin American Studies,” volume 71, which was recently released in fall 2016. This handbook is used as a...
Allegheny College received the E2 Energy to Educate grant in 2016. The grant awarded the college $37,500 to build a greenhouse for the Carr Garden—often called the “Carrden”—this upcoming summer....
Allegheny faculty, staff and students were invited by the provost’s office and Year of Mindfulness organizers to participate in a challenge from Jan. 23 through Jan. 27 to not correspond through email...
Campus: Why did you decide to coach?
Victory: I grew up with my mom coaching. I always loved that side of things. She was a basketball coach, so she always joked that when I would walk into the gym, I...
Heather Bosau, ’17, has been accepted to participate in the Pennsylvania Legislative Fellowship in Harrisburg from mid-January to early April, making her the third student from Allegheny College to be...
Allegheny students and staff have created a trail of edible plants along land owned by the Meadville Area Recreation Complex.
This “Edible Trail” provides food for the community and college students...
According to an email sent to Allegheny Faculty on by Associate Provost and Director of the Gateway Terrence Bensel on Dec. 9, 2011, Gator Day was first implemented into the academic schedule for Tuesday,...
Rachel Belson, Contributing Writer
• October 13, 2016
Campus: Why did you decide to coach?
Holko: Well, I played basketball for four years at Westminster College, and I was a history major with a secondary ed [education] minor. I didn’t really want to...
Rachel Belson, Contributing Writer
• September 29, 2016
At the end of the 2015-2016 school year, former Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Sue Stuebner left Allegheny to take a position as president of Colby Sawyer College in New Hampshire....
Rachel Belson, Contributing Writer
• September 8, 2016
Standing for the national anthem shows that a citizen supports the United States of America, the military, the government, and what the country believes in. Many people agree that if you are not standing...
Earth Day this year fell on April 22. Admittedly, I had to search online to see whether Earth Day is the same day every year—and apparently, it is. I wonder, why is this date not ingrained into my...
It finally happened! After more than 20 years of acting, Leonardo DiCaprio has finally received an Oscar. He earned his long-awaited award for best actor in a leading role as Hugh Glass, in “The...
Rachel Belson, Contributing Writer
• February 25, 2016
Over the years, NASA has hosted a variety of non-NASA-affiliated organizations and group conferences in its buildings, so long as NASA employees hold these meetings and events on their own time.
These...
Rachel Belson, Contributing Writer
• February 11, 2016
Beyoncé, singer extraordinaire, shocked Americans by performing her new song “Formation” during the Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show. Many viewers cheered her on. Yet others were dismayed and angered by...
Rachel Belson, Contributing Writer
• November 12, 2015
The ability for employers to require potential employees to submit whether they have committed a felony in the past on a job application is in the center of a national debate. It is wrong to ask this...
Rachel Belson, Contributing Writer
• October 29, 2015
In America today, many people find certain Halloween costumes to be culturally offensive. While some costumes are ridiculed for being too sexualized or revealing, the most ardent opposition concerns...
Rachel Belson, Contributing Writer
• September 17, 2015
Before debating whether the Confederate flag should be removed or allowed to fly, we must first look at the importance of the flag through a historical perspective. Did you know that the flag considered...
Rachel Belson, Contributing Writer
• September 4, 2015
Allegheny College’s Safety and security, for the 2015-16 school year, has decided to add a few rules for the locations for parking.
This is disparaging to students because it is already difficult to...
Rachel Belson, Contributing Writer
• October 30, 2014
After three years of effort, the Student Art Society and North Village Residents Staff collaborated and began painting a mural on the first floor of North Village 2.
This idea came from a student who...
Rachel Belson, Contributing Writer
• October 2, 2014
CBS news reported that Thomas Eric Duncan was confirmed to have the Ebola virus on Sept. 30, four days after he arrived in Dallas, Texas, on a flight from Liberia. Because he did not exhibit symptoms while...
