The Campus Newspaper

04/30/2026

“I would literally never do that much work for free,” is something my freshman year self definitely said about The Campus to a friend who’d started churning out news articles as soon as orientation week was over. Like most declarative statements freshmen make about the future, that was wrong.

I’m writing this from the newsroom on the last Wednesday evening I’ll ever spend arranging an edition of The Campus on the page, and, uh, this story is way past the Monday evening deadline I should have been able to hit. In a different universe, I probably wrote a heartfelt and polished senior s...

04/30/2026

It has been one of the great honors of my life to be elected to lead The Campus for the past two years. I am incredibly proud of this newspaper and so excited to see what it accomplished in the future. (And I promise I will always pick up the phone.)

The Campus is defined by the people who love it, who care for it day-in and day-out and who carry on its legacy by donating hours upon hours of their time each week. Not because they’re paid, but because this is how they serve their community. The Campus might seem like it is a given...

04/30/2026

My first class at Allegheny was Journalism 100, a class that helped me learn the ropes of journalism and started me down a three-year-career with The Campus. I remember sitting in a contributing writer’s meeting when, then-Editor-in-Chief Sami Mirza, ’24, asked if I wanted to write anything for the paper. I had taken a few pitches before but nothing caught my eye that week. I asked if I could do a comedy corner, and there began years of jokes and tomfoolery.

My first class at Allegheny was Journalism 100, a class that helped me learn the ropes of journalism and started me down a three-year-career with The Campus. I remember sitting in a contributing writer’s meeting when, then-Editor-in-Chief Sami Mirza, ’24, asked if I wanted to write anything for ...

04/30/2026

Even though I’ve only been on staff for seven short months, I have had so many amazing experiences working with the rest of staff. Since joining, I have gained a new love for writing both creatively and in more news-oriented modes. I am eternally grateful for my time on The Campus, no matter how short it was.

I am absolutely terrible at this kind of writing. Writing this goodbye, I keep trying to imagine myself as a TV show character writing their memoir during the series finale while flashbacking to scenes we’ve all seen before. Despite all my effort, that type of melancholy introspection isn’t with...

04/30/2026

As I depart from Allegheny, I’m not walking away with all the answers or everything figured out. But I am leaving with something even better: the confidence to keep asking questions, strive for success and keep growing.

Dear Beloved Allegheny Community, Four years ago, I stepped foot on this campus as a doe-eyed freshman with no idea what I was doing. I still remember struggling with courses, making friends, missing my home and being completely uncertain about everything. I entrusted these feelings to my first acad...

04/29/2026

I miss Mourer, more than I express to myself and to my teammates. He made a huge impact on my life by just being himself, and that is something that is extremely special to be able to do. Even if he cannot be here physically, I know that he’s looking down at all of us, and I know that he’s proud of me. No matter what the future holds, he taught me how to stay on the grind and how to get through things when they get tough. If there is one thing to take away from all this, it should be to never settle.

I knew I wanted to write this letter when Assistant Professor of Psychology Nancy Frambes, ’87, mentioned it during the first day of positive psychology, and I knew exactly who I wanted to write it to. During the last couple of weeks of class, Frambes explained that this letter should express how ...

04/29/2026

The hallways of Steffee Hall of Life Sciences buzzed with a nervous energy on the afternoons of Monday, April 20, and Tuesday, April 21 — the kind that comes from years of work and finally presenting it to an audience. The biology department’s annual Senior Project Symposium brought 35 graduating seniors together to present research they had designed and defended over the course of their final year. From agricultural pest control to public health policy, the researchers behind these topics varied: athletes, future dentists and doctors and others were each drawn to science by a different strung-together thread of curiosity.

The hallways of Steffee Hall of Life Sciences buzzed with a nervous energy on the afternoons of Monday, April 20, and Tuesday, April 21 — the kind that comes from years of work and finally presenting it to an audience. The biology department’s annual Senior Project Symposium brought 35 graduatin...

04/29/2026

With classes winding down, comps submitted, graduation robes fitted and post-grad plans at least somewhat committed, the class of 2026 has one final challenge to overcome before they’re launched into the world, degrees in hand: finding a place to call home.

With classes winding down, comps submitted, graduation robes fitted and post-grad plans at least somewhat committed, the class of 2026 has one final challenge to overcome before they’re launched into the world, degrees in hand: finding a place to call home. Although the Princeton Review estimates ...

04/29/2026

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04/29/2026

Students admire the combination of colors that coated their clothing after throwing the wet powder onto each other as part of the celebration.

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