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Sydney Emerson

Sydney Emerson, Opinion Editor

Sydney Emerson is a member of the class of 2023. She is from Bradford, Pennsylvania and is an English major with a history minor.

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Slayer’s scheme or guest’s graffiti?

Sydney Emerson, Opinion Editor April 14, 2023

“Abe Lincoln departed this life August 13th, 1864 by the effects of poison” — or so a certain Meadville hotel guest may have hoped. The graffiti was found shortly after John Wilkes Booth stayed at...

ASG hosts Dearden for FS updates

Sydney Emerson, Opinion Editor February 17, 2023

Despite the middle of the semester looming on the horizon, new beginnings dominated the discussion at the general assembly of Allegheny Student Government on Tuesday, Feb. 14. The meeting began with a...

Beware the BuzzFeed quiz-ification of our lives

Sydney Emerson, Opinion Editor February 17, 2023
Gen Z is credited with busting the binary wide open, shaking up and occasionally eliminating altogether the stiff rules of gendered and sexual expression. But from my view at the eye of the storm, I’m doubtful.

YA? Why not?

Sydney Emerson, Opinion Editor November 18, 2022
The more snooty readers among us think that complex ideas can only be presented in complex packages, that anything worth reading must make the reader feel a certain level of page-by-page agony. This, of course, is utter nonsense.

How grading creates an alternate reality

Sydney Emerson, Opinion Editor November 11, 2022
The American system of education forces students to suspend their disbelief and pretend that what they’re doing day in and day out matters to their futures beyond the GPA that will ostensibly get them into college.

Scholarships are socialist

Sydney Emerson, Opinion Editor October 14, 2022
At their core, these opportunities are a pact: you do your part in some way, through work, study or both, and we will make sure that your needs are met. Free from certain burdens of modern adult life — namely financial — you will have the opportunity to grow and explore as a person.

Growth mindset is unhealthy

Sydney Emerson, Opinion Editor September 2, 2022

You can be anything you want to be. Good vibes only. Think lovely thoughts. Fake it ‘til you make it. Radiate positivity. You can always do better. Online platforms abound with catchy mantras designed...

Ford Chapel has been the center of religious life on campus for over 100 years.

‘Meeting This Moment’

Sydney Emerson, Features Editor May 12, 2022

For almost 200 years, Allegheny has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Now, with fractures in the church and the Allegheny community’s approach toward religion, the college will play host...

Allegheny is stuck in ‘the Sad Gap’

Sydney Emerson, Features Editor May 9, 2022

Allow me to paint you a picture. Tell me if it sounds familiar. You are reading the news or Twitter or Facebook or this week’s edition of The Campus. Everywhere you look, every new Tweet or article or...

Mediocre masterpieces

Sydney Emerson, Features Editor April 21, 2022

“National Treasure” is a masterpiece. “Clue” is, too. I love “Night at the Museum” and “The Proposal” just as much as I love “Citizen Kane,” “Goodfellas” and “Dr. Strangelove.” Movies...

When will it end?

Sydney Emerson, Staff Writer April 7, 2022

There’s been another one, and this time, it’s in our own backyard. A shooter opened fire at Erie High School on Tuesday morning, injuring one student before fleeing. Less than an hour later, the...

“Ban the Bible, too”

Sydney Emerson, Staff Writer February 24, 2022

I am disturbed by the filth that Americans are reading, and you should be, too. Take, for example, a story in which two daughters live alone with their widowed father. They make a pact to get him drunk...

The Allegheny Penny Dreadfuls

The Allegheny Penny Dreadfuls

Sydney Emerson, Features Writer October 28, 2021

After being practically shuttered from college activity for almost two years, Oddfellows Hall sits as an enigma at the top of North Main Street. The building, which always had a mysterious and imposing...

Social media is destroying lives

Sydney Emerson, Features writer October 22, 2021

In episode two of The Wall Street Journal’s investigative podcast “The Facebook Files,” it was reported that, written in bold on an internal research report from Facebook, was the phrase “We make...

Photo source: Wikipedia 
Edward Rulloff, also known as James Nelson, is pictured here. Ruloff taught at Allegheny briefly under a psuedonym. Ruloff killed his wife and young daughters in 1844, prior to teaching at Allegheny.

Allegheny’s murderous professor

Sydney Emerson, Features Writer October 14, 2021

In 1858, an English philologist named James Nelson arrived in Meadville with the hopes of earning a professorship at Allegheny College. He was a skilled teacher who knew Latin, Greek, German, French and...

Via: Merrick Archives Digital Images Collection
Hulings Hall, as seen here in 1881, was constructed in 1871 as the first residence hall for women on campus.

The Allegheny Penny Dreadfuls

Mo Mansour and Sydney Emerson October 1, 2021

Between the old buildings and even older traditions, Allegheny’s long history has generated its fair share of myths and legends. There are the classics — the likes of William McKinley’s infamous...

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