The Collegian Reporter – Page 152

Photo / April 27, 2025 Students’ Favorite Skies of Sioux City

By Jaden Carney – As you stroll around Morningside University in Sioux City, Iowa, one of the most beautiful things that will grab your attention is the park-like beauty of the campus. However, have you ever experienced the campus at sunset? If not, you are truly missing out. You can walk around Morningside Campus any...

Sports / April 25, 2025 Tennis Takeover: Morningside to Host GPAC Tennis Tournament

By Mia Wenzel – Morningside University will host the GPAC Tennis Tournament for the second consecutive year. On April 9, 2025, the Morningside Men’s Tennis Team clinched back-to-back regular season GPAC Champions with a 7-0 victory against Mount Marty. On April 14, 2025, they further solidified their status as back-to-back regular season GPAC Champions with...

Arts & Entertainment / April 24, 2025 From One Generation to Another: Morningside’s Choir Centennial Concert Celebration

By Thomas Godtland — Morningside Choir’s Centennial Concert will be held in Eugene C. Eppley Memorial Auditorium Saturday, April 26, at 7:00 p.m. and will feature music from the Centennial Alumni Choir. This concert will feature past and present conductors of the Morningside Choir such as Dr. Ryan Person (current), Timothy Watson, and Dr. Bruce...

Arts & Entertainment / April 24, 2025 Final All America Concert Band Performance

By Thomas Godtland — The All America Concert Band will be having their final performance of the season titled,“Dance!” on Sunday, April 27, at 7:30pm in Eugene C. Eppley Memorial Auditorium. As the name would suggest, selections from this concert will be inspired by dance, featuring highlights from Dancing in Air by Yo Goto, I...

Arts & Entertainment / April 24, 2025 Morningside Hosts 2nd Annual Concert Band Festival

By Thomas Godtland — Morningside University will be hosting their 2nd Annual Concert Band Festival this Thursday, April 24. Starting at 9:00am, participating bands will have the opportunity to perform in Eugene C. Eppley Memorial Auditorium and receive feedback from two adjudicators. These adjudicators will be using IHSMA (Iowa High School Music Association) large group...

Arts & Entertainment / April 24, 2025 Morningside Spring Concert With Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band

By Thomas Godtland — Friday, April 25, Morningside’s Wind Ensemble and M-Avenue Jazz band will present their Spring Concert in Eppley Auditorium. M-Avenue, under the direction of Dr. Erik Mahon, will perform Gold & Lavender by Eric Oatts, C Jam Blues ala. Mambo by Duke Ellington and arranged by Michael Philip Mossman, Mixolydian Soul Frog...

Features / April 23, 2025 Is It Just Me, or Have People Become More Rude? (It’s Both)

By Gabriel Ruiz – I recently learned that nearly half of Americans believe people have become ruder since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. To be honest, I’m surprised the statistics aren’t higher. The notion that individuals we encounter in our daily lives are ruder than in the past is not a new...

Arts & Entertainment

Hidden Figures Movie Review

(02.26.2017) By Liv Minshall — Hidden Figures is a film about three underappreciated female African American mathematicians behind NASA’s great Space Race in the early 1960s. Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janella Monae star as Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, and Mary Jackson, respectively. The movie primarily follows Johnson (Henson) as she is (dis)placed into…

Morningside People

Morningside College’s First Australian Study Abroad Experience

(02.26.2017) By Rachel Potter — Morningside College student Allie Vanhouten was the school’s first student to study abroad in Australia, through a program called CIEE. Vanhouten studied at Wollongon, New South Wales, Australia living in dorms with a roommate, also an international student, from North Carolina. While Vanhouten was in Australia she took three classes, equivalent…

Features

How Students Spent Their Snow Day

(02.26.2017) By Rachel Potter — On Friday, February 24, Morningside College cancelled all classes. After speaking with students, not one could remember the last time Morningside canceled every class at once. Students love having a day off from classes, along with the free time for different actives, from sleeping in to catching up on homework. Molly…

Arts & Entertainment

Nintendo Fans Anticipate “The Switch”

(02.24.2017) By Liv Minshall — With one week until the release of Nintendo’s latest console, the Switch, the anticipation of gamers everywhere is practically palpable. Previously known by its working title, the NX, the Switch is Nintendo’s latest attempt to conquer both the handheld and home console market once again. This system is creating quite the…

News

Student Government Proposes a Change in Senate Size

(02.24.2017) By Rachel Potter — Morningside College’s Student Government is looking to decrease its senate size. Student Government currently has 27 senators and six executive seats. There are two representatives from each grade, three Roadman representatives, two Apartment representatives, five Dimmitt Representatives, one Plex Representative, and seven commuter representatives. Currently the Senate is considering two representatives…

Features, Food and Drink

Pineapple on Pizza: Disgusting or Delicious?

(2.24.2017) By Lindsey Smith–In recent news, the President of Iceland, Gudni Th. Johannesson, announced he would ban pineapple on pizza if he could. With all of this attention placed on a pizza topping, we wondered what people at Morningside College thought about it. Some people find pineapple delicious, like student Megan Bush, who says, “I…