The Collegian Reporter – Page 181

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...

Features

Grocery shopping simplified

By Diane Nguyen–Grocery shopping can sometimes be a challenge because there is a part of you that wants to eat to feel full, but the other part also wants to be healthy. Eating to feel full can mean eating junk food and making you feel not so hot about yourself. Eating healthy leaves you feeling hungry in…

Features, Food and Drink

Soups on Sunday

By Diane Nguyen–Growing up, my parents always made some type of Vietnamese soup for my siblings and me when it got cold outside. Or my friends and I would make a pot of whatever we had in the house and bond over that. When I went off to college my roommates and I always shared…

News

Holiday Spirit and an Elf in Dimmitt

By Kara Bentz–The Hanging of the Greens has been a long-standing tradition here at Morningside College. Monday night, November 30, the 2015 Hanging of the Greens event occurred in the formal lounge of Dimmitt Hall. This event celebrates one of the oldest holiday customs in Europe, the burning of the Yule Log. 66 years ago,…

Arts & Entertainment

Christmas Tunes: The Top 5

By Jenni Beaver–Thanksgiving has flown by and now it’s time to break out the Santa hats. Christmas is right around the corner and that means lots of festive music. Here are my top 5 Christmas tunes that get me in the spirit of the season. Number five: Grandmas got run Over by a Reindeer This…

Editorials, Features

How to Not Feel Overwhelmed

By Diane Nguyen–With Thanksgiving break over, we only have a couple weeks left before the end of the semester! Then after that is Winter Break and after that nothing else to worry about, until next semester. Yet with only two weeks left, you’ll probably find yourself feeling overwhelmed. Overwhelmed with the fact that this semester…