I hate the internet. I think I hate it even more when it’s gone.
As I sit against a wall in the campus center, watching my Chromebook try its hardest to find the printer that sits just a few feet away,...
Mental health resources are changing on campus. In an effort to provide students with accessible wellness options both in-person and anonymously online, the Counseling and Personal Development Center will...
If you saw the Barbie movie this summer as someone who grew up experiencing girlhood, it’s likely that you cried. Whether it was America Ferrara’s monologue on the double standards of being a woman...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• April 28, 2023
The Slotes arrived at Allegheny College in a blizzard.
Even through the cold and snow, one thing was clear to Ben Slote: Allegheny was no ordinary school.
“I was just very impressed about how both...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• April 28, 2023
No one wants to speak about it.
Music blared over the stereo for sound checks, audience questions were being finalized and “wanna be an ACTIVE BYSTANDER?” was written on the green chalkboard at the...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• April 21, 2023
Like many things in America, weed is equally politicized and misunderstood. Since little is concretely known about the consumption and effects of marijuana, much of the conversation around its use is speculative....
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• April 14, 2023
As any true book lover knows, a book is more than a physical item. It is not the pages or binding or ink that make a book a book, but rather its contents.
The students of ART 584, “Contemporary Institutes...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• April 14, 2023
In my room there hangs an all-white poster. All that fills the space is 4,628 boxes, roughly a fifth of them checked with a single black line.
It’s plain, simple and terrifying all at once.
Each box...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• April 7, 2023
To speak or not to speak, that is the question. For many prominent members of the Republican Party, the question has a simple answer: Speak if you will benefit, stay silent if you will not.
Like a lot...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• March 31, 2023
The Allegheny Student Government held its weekly general assembly on March 28 to continue judicial proceedings, discuss finance issues and approve a new club.
The final order of business for the GA was...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• March 24, 2023
In between the sunlit windows and the plethora of hanging flags on the second floor of the Henderson Campus Center, dozens of stylish students lined up to have their professional photograph taken. Down...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• February 24, 2023
It may be February, but the Office of Career Education has its sights set on summer. With speakers lined up and plenty of ice cream to go around, the office’s “Summer Scoop Series” gave students...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• February 22, 2023
Editor’s note: Allegheny Student Government announced late last night that Smith has officially been removed from the 2023-24 presidential race, citing a violation of Article 1, Section 6 of the ASG...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• February 22, 2023
Ray Colabawalla, ’25, and Joe Leszczynski, ’25, are running for Allegheny Student Government’s President and Vice President, respectively. Leszczynski serves as the current vice president for the...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• February 22, 2023
Kevin Murphy, ’24, and Manasvi Bantawa, ’24, are running for Allegheny Student Government President and Vice President, respectively. Focused primarily on student culture, the ASG-outsiders want to...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• February 16, 2023
Love is in the air. Or maybe it’s consumerism.
Walking into any store in America in the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day, it seems that love is not so much a feeling as it is a product.
Massive...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• February 10, 2023
Few things are powerful enough to draw people out of their warm homes and into the cold and snow on a dark winter evening. Cookies are one of those things, and Meadville business owners know it.
Cookies...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• February 10, 2023
We live in a culture plagued by self-reliance attitude and self-improvement jargon, where failure is praised in theory but instantly rejected in practice.
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• February 2, 2023
If you pass by Oddfellows Hall on a summer day, you are likely to hear a distinct chatter from above. Look up, and you may catch a glimpse of a small, gray figure swooping through the sky. Those sights...
Sam Heilmann, Junior Opinion Editor
• January 27, 2023
When you think of Generation Z, what comes to mind? Depending on your age, you may think of your children, your peers or your students. Maybe a more abstract concept comes to mind — the future, open-mindedness...
A collection of posters scattered around the Allegheny campus this past week had one message to get across: supporting the arts is a campus-wide necessity. As students and faculty members filled the Allegheny...
It was a dark and stormy night as students and professors filtered into Ford Chapel to listen to the “Ghost Stories” of Karl Smith, ’11. After a brief rehearsal and some technical adjustments, Smith...
Sam Heilmann, Contributing Writer
• October 28, 2022
In classic liberal arts style, Allegheny is hosting a new collaboration project between the Dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the Office of Sustainability. The series of events, named “DEEPly...
Sam Heilmann, Contributing Writer
• October 21, 2022
In letting his selfish attempt to escape the law tarnish the court for the upcoming years, we all suffer at the hands of Trump long after his presidency.
We firmly believe that the burden of education should not be placed on only slightly older students who have minimal training in diversity and inclusion.