Doane’s Theatre department is revitalizing a class for next semester. The class is called Scenic Painting and is being taught by Professor Robin McKercher. The class is offered as a way for students to learn how to paint realistically for set designs or for interior decoration. “It is mostly geared toward creating scenery and doing
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Doane hosted Destress Fest on May 8. Destress Fest was a way for students to unwind before finals and have a break from their studies. “Seeing the joy on student’s faces when they get the stress out on smashing computers or pet a mini horse, or just forget about school for a second [was my
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The New Xanadu (TNX) hosted a ceremony to unveil the 2024 edition of the magazine. TNX had speakers present their submissions and have faculty members talk about what TNX means to them. “It feels very odd, having something out there […] it’s a much bigger deal than anything I’ve ever done, so it is taking
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My opinion pieces have been notoriously dense and left field, meaning that it does not follow the typical expectations for what an opinion piece would be for a newspaper. This leaves editors and readers in confusion as to what gets me down these roads. Typically, when I write an opinion piece, I have read a
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Doane hosted a Student Leadership Awards ceremony on May 5. There were eight total categories for awards and recognitions and they came from a variety of departments at Doane. Some of the recipients included seniors Julia Ramirez, Payton Detavernier, Zach Turner, Quincey Johnson, Elsy Sierra-Valle, Chelsey Ordaz, Guy Moran, Landon Stocks, Kylie Hughes, Maci McCarter,
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Doane’s Honors Program held a showcase for its seniors in the program. The class is the senior capstone of the Honors program and was taught by Sociology Professor Kari Gentzler. The students who presented at the showcase were seniors Anabelle Daugherty, Dani Avalos, Maci McCarter, Emma Woods, Zekiel Krejci-Hyde, Kylie Hughes, Abby Haught and Tori
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The Current Legal Issues class at Doane University is going to be presenting their mock opinions on May 8 from 6 to 7 p.m. in Gaylord 427. The opinions are going to be centered around the Supreme Court (SC) case “US v. Rahimi,” a 2024 case about gun control. The presenters are sophomore Jenny Cardoso,
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Actions speak louder than words when it comes to policymaking. For the last 20 years or so, the words of the president have not correlated with the actions of the president. For the record, I know that the president does not legally have the right to make policy, but they can influence policymaking directly. There
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Doane’s Student Programming Board (SPB) hosted another event in their series, titled “Coffee Shop Series.” The premise of the series is that the SPB brings in artists or groups of artists from the surrounding area and has them perform here at Doane University. For this event in the series, SPB decided to bring in Jack
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I finished Dostoyevsky’s phenomenal “Notes from Underground” recently, and it got me thinking. In the novella, the anonymous narrator describes his plan to get beat up by General Zverkov, get sent to prison and live on the street as a beggar when he is released, only to come across this general again and make him
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