The Campus Newspaper

04/27/2025

As many of you know, the Allegheny chapter of Turning Point USA, a club whose charter was rejected by Allegheny Student Government, hosted an event for Krolczyk, an ambassador for the Riley Gaines Center, which advocates against the participation of trans women in women’s sports. Despite massive opposition from both current students and alumni, Cole declined to cancel the event, instead dedicating the college’s resources to platforming her anti-intellectual hate speech.

Dear Editor, When I was a freshman in high school, my English teacher pulled me aside before we began our Shakespeare unit and told me, “We won’t be talking about it in class, but I thought you would want to know that many scholars believe Shakespeare was a bisexual or gay man.” She was right....

04/27/2025

Overall, these four years have helped me to remember that it’s okay when plans fall apart. Sometimes, the best parts of life are the ones unplanned: the classes we take by chance, the communities we stumble into and the passions we grow into unexpectedly.
I’m walking away from Allegheny with a degree, but also with a better sense of purpose and who I want to be in the future. So yes, goodbyes are still hard, but they are a little easier knowing that you are leaving having found something you didn’t even know you were looking for.

Goodbyes have never been easy for me. As I reflect on my past four years at Allegheny College, I can’t help but feel a strange mix of nostalgia, gratitude and disbelief at how much has changed since I first stepped foot on campus as an eighteen-year-old with dreams of becoming a music teacher. As ...

04/27/2025

I have come to reflect on my journey and just how much I have changed. Coming from Houston, Texas all the way to Meadville, included lots of new experiences. Houston is as flat as a pancake, and you cannot go anywhere substantial without a car. It’s safe to say the first walk back from downtown Meadville more than gassed me my first August here.

If you had told me my freshman year that I would be a gym freak by the end of my senior year of college, I would’ve laughed, been in complete denial and told you to stop making up lies about my future. But as I sit here in Grounds For Change with my creatine concoction...

04/26/2025

Dan Winston, ’10, sits in the Vukovich Center for Communication Arts, reflecting on his whirlwind year of performances.

Dan Winston, ’10, sits in the Vukovich Center for Communication Arts, reflecting on his whirlwind year of performances. “In August and September, I played Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption up in Erie. That was a very emotionally taxing role,” Winston said. “And a couple months ago I ...

04/26/2025

The models take to the runway for the final walk of the show.

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04/26/2025

Students choose from a selection of over 500 hand-crafted bowls at the “Empty Bowls” event in the Henderson Campus Center Lobby on Wednesday, April 16. President of Clay Club Eleanor Rochford,’26, stated that the artists in the club had essentially been working on this project since they came back from winter break, hosting a bowl crafting event and then a bowl decorating event over the course of the semester.

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04/25/2025

Users of GatorHub would have noticed an alert on March 28 offering relief and resolution to an alarming suspicion that had interrupted 9 a.m. classes in Oddfellows earlier that day. “Early Friday there was an alert of a gas leak at Oddfellows,” the notification read. “The gas company was called and met our HVAC team to investigate this. No gas leak was found.”

Users of GatorHub would have noticed an alert on March 28 offering relief and resolution to an alarming suspicion that had interrupted 9 a.m. classes in Oddfellows earlier that day. “Early Friday there was an alert of a gas leak at Oddfellows,” the notification read. “The gas company was calle...

04/25/2025

Cardboard cutouts of Allegheny College President Ron Cole, '87, and Allegheny mascot Chompers provide a photo opportunity for students during Gator Give Day on Thursday, April 17.

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04/25/2025

Allegheny Student Government met on April 22 for its final General Assembly of the year. The presidential transfer of power was carried out, as well as elections of cabinet positions and final reports of the current cabinet.

Allegheny Student Government met on April 22 for its final General Assembly of the year. The presidential transfer of power was carried out, as well as elections of cabinet positions and final reports of the current cabinet. Cabinet Reports Director of the Treasury, Doug Malcolm, ’27, reported the...

04/20/2025

This past weekend, I went on my first solo trip ever. I turned 19 on April 14, so I decided as a treat to myself I’d visit my friend in Princeton, New Jersey. ✈️ In the excitement of the moment, I decided I was also going to see the Jersey Shore and New York in the same weekend. Since I’m basically a professional now, here are some things you should absolutely know before your first solo trip.

This past weekend, I went on my first solo trip ever. I turned 19 on April 14, so I decided as a treat to myself I’d visit my friend in Princeton, New Jersey. In the excitement of the moment, I decided I was also going to see the Jersey Shore and New York in the...

04/20/2025

When the Trump administration announced new semiconductor tariffs (taxes on imported computer chips used in everything from phones to cars) on April 2, according to ABC News, it reignited a debate with generational stakes. For students like Joseph Oforkanski, ’27, the move encaptures a paradox. “There’s a security benefit, keeping U.S data infrastructure domestic, but the back could make other nations dislike Americans.” His concern mirrors warnings from Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who, according to Reuters, argued such policies risk “disrupting the global economic order.”

When the Trump administration announced new semiconductor tariffs (taxes on imported computer chips used in everything from phones to cars) on April 2, according to ABC News, it reignited a debate with generational stakes. For students like Joseph Oforkanski, ’27, the move encaptures a paradox. .....

04/20/2025

I realized that experiencing the conversations and storytelling I did at this conference brought the people and groups I was learning about in class to a new level of reality and significance to me. Instead of subjects in a documentary or article, these people and their stories were right in front of my face and I felt lucky to be able to hear them as they intended to tell them, alongside family and friends.

It isn’t always easy to look back on an academic year and list the tangible things learned in a nine-month span. As my second year as a communication and media studies major comes to a close, I find myself to be a better writer, speaker and consumer of media than I was when I started...

04/19/2025

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04/19/2025

Grant Filbeck (left) from Junior Achievement explains the nonprofit’s efforts of teaching financial literacy, workforce readiness and entrepreneurship so students can think about their plans after school.

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04/19/2025

Thomas Conners, assistant professor of the world languages and cultures department, explains the many forms research can take while setting the stage for Allegheny faculty presenters.

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04/18/2025

Allegheny Student Government met on April 15 to discuss end-of-the-year plans, vote on recognizing three clubs and report the budget.

Allegheny Student Government met on April 15 to discuss end-of-the-year plans, vote on recognizing three clubs and report the budget. Cabinet Reports Director of the Treasury Doug Malcolm, ’27, reported that due to Easter weekend, the finance meeting which is typically on Fridays, will instead be ...

04/18/2025

The vice president of Allegheny College’s recently established Turning Point USA chapter, Braeden Means, ’28, announced on April 1 that he will transfer from the college at the end of the academic year. Means announced his decision in a Facebook post that has since garnered over 160 comments and been shared more than 230 times.

The vice president of Allegheny College’s recently established Turning Point USA chapter, Braeden Means, ’28, announced on April 1 that he will transfer from the college at the end of the academic year. Means announced his decision in a Facebook post that has since garnered over 160 comments and...

04/18/2025

Laughter and music rang out over North Main Street on the overcast evening of Thursday, April 10, as a crowd of over 100 Allegheny students and faculty members gathered on the lawn outside the Newton Observatory for a “Trans Joy Jamboree.” The event was a celebration of “trans joy, success, and athleticism,” according to its flyer, and was hosted by Students Against Genocide, All Gender Equity Society, WARC Radio, Allegheny Ghost Club and Grounds for Change.

Laughter and music rang out over North Main Street on the overcast evening of Thursday, April 10, as a crowd of over 100 Allegheny students and faculty members gathered on the lawn outside the Newton Observatory for a “Trans Joy Jamboree.” The event was a celebration of “trans joy, success, an...