Is it morning already? Where’s my phone? That alarm is piercing. The light from the phone screen burns my eyes and I flinch. In turning my alarm off, I landed on Facebook. The first headline of the day was Barbaric. Young Children Missing from Texas Detention Center. My ears ring at the thought. How has twenty minutes gone by? I was quickly checking Facebook. Wait no, turning my alarm off. What was I doing on Facebook? I need to wake up. Those poor mothers. What will I wear t

On Saturday, April 25th , 2026 at eight o’clock in the morning, you could feel the anticipation building inside the Kelly Center. With posters rolled up in hand, students anxiously waited to grab their name tag and find their assigned spot in the McCoy room. Communication Arts seniors unraveled the accumulation of their academic experience and cautiously pinned them to the wooden frame. Many students brought creative supplemental items to include with their posters like infog

by Gabe Moore When I lived in North Carolina as a young man, the church we attended had a circuit-riding pastor who frequently enjoyed doing his best Jerry Lee Lewis impression during the song segments of services. He’d play the piano, run around back and forth at the front of the church and holler “Amen!” incessantly. This pastor also dearly loved to engineer a revival service. In fact, he concocted a series of them at least once every year. They were good times. I remember

by Claire Loudon Collegiate volunteers from Wilmington College's Agricultural Education Society helped to make Speak to Lead possible for Ohio FFA members. On Thursday, February 5th, 2026, Wilmington College’s Agricultural Education Society hosted their annual Speak to Lead contest. This contest is a staple for many FFA members, giving them firsthand experience in preparation for the Ohio FFA Public Speaking Career Development Event (CDE) hosted each spring. Public Speaking i

by Mary Rose On January 23 rd and 24 th , 2026, I attended my third straight Winter Leadership Experience (WLE). This conference is hosted by the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation (OFBF) in varying locations around the state each year. Although the national average age of farmers is almost 60 years old, many of the attendees at WLE are the younger faces of agriculture. WLE is intended for the younger generation of producers through the Young Ag Professionals program, also known as

Plowed, icy Elm Street on Wilmington College's campus in the aftermath of Winter Storm Fern. by Mary Rose While Winter Storm Fern may be gone, the snow and cold temperatures she left in her wake are here to stay a while longer. With the weather report staying below freezing, it seems like a great time to snuggle up underneath some blankets with the heat cranked up. Some may be working from home or having remote instruction, like I have. However, others may be staying horizont

When I was in the fourth grade, my teacher told us never to abbreviate Christmas as ‘Xmas’. Her reasoning was simple enough that even a group of ten-year olds could understand it. One of my classmates immediately pegged the problem with making that abbreviation as “taking Christ out of Christmas.” It took me several years to realize that she wasn’t really all that worried about our spelling and what we wrote on our Christmas cards. She was trying to teach us about a symptom o

Larry Fitzgerald is one of the greatest wide receivers in the history of the National Football League. Over the course of a 17-year NFL Career, he had 17,492 receiving yards and 121 receiving touchdowns.(1) In addition to his numerous accolades and stats on the field, Fitzgerald is known to be an incredible philanthropist. He runs the Larry Fitzgerald Foundation, which advocates for breast cancer research, in honor of his mother, Carol, who died of breast cancer in 2003 . (2)

Wilmington College is amping up their music program this semester with more opportunities for students and community members to hear music across the campus grounds. Assistant Professor of Music Evan Hatter is raising the expectations for the Wilmington College Music Department. This includes more student performances from the Quaker Thunder Pep Band. In the fall semester alone, the band held an outdoor jazz concert, performed at the Homecoming pep rally for students, and add