by Chloe Krommendyk–The Morningside Dance Team was able to compete nationally in the 2022 NAIA Competitive Dance Championship in Ypsilanti, Michigan this past weekend at the George Gervin GameAbove Center. The team posted the highest score ever recorded in the NAIA Dance Championship, making them National champions for the school’s first time.  The Mustangs’ winning…

by Alexis Spier–Former male swimmer for University of Pennsylvania is now competing on the university’s women’s team. While she was competing for the men’s team, she began transitioning to a woman by taking testosterone blockers and estrogen. During the Ivy League Swimming week, she won the Ohio race. The race against Ohio went viral and raised…

Jadyn Steffen- Have you ever wondered what it might be like to start of your day with early morning lifting at 5:30 am, then go to class around 8am, eat lunch, go back to class until about 3pm, then go to practice at 3:30pm, work at 5pm or 6pm, get off work at 11pm, do…

Op-Ed by B. Huth, Haley Doran, Lena Bannavong, and Sharon Bassette When you think about sex trafficking you likely picture big cities on either coast, certainly not the midwest. People might think that sex trafficking is done by strangers and that it can’t happen to yourself, right? Wrong. Sex trafficking is a local problem. More…

by Jadyn Steffen–As Ukraine is still under invasion from Putin’s Russian military, Morningside University students try to help out in any way they can.   The invasion began on February 24 and several hundred Ukraininans have been pronounced dead and over 600,000 have been forced to flee their country with just days or hours of notice,…

by Chloe Krommendyk–Starting the school year last August there were many reports immediately after students arrived on the campus of cars being broken into and things being stolen. Not too long after that, there were also reports of students being approached by a community member asking personal questions. Senior Ashley Duncan even reported that at…