Arts & Entertainment, News / April 30, 2024 Kiosk 86 highlights end of the year

by Maren Ewertz–The Kiosk release is a highlight of the school year’s end. Every year since 1938, Morningside has released a short collection of fiction, nonfiction, and other forms of short stories in a book. From the years 1938 to 1952, the Kiosk was referred to as Manuscript. Then Manuscript became Perspectives from the years 1953-1970. Ever since 1971, we...

News / April 30, 2024 Morningside receives $2 million gift for the School of Business

by Maren Ewertz–Tom Rosen, a graduate of Morningside College from 1970, has given a $2 million gift to the Morningside University campus. The donation will be the essential funds for the construction and design of a brand new School of Business building. Rosen earned his degree from Morningside College with minors in livestock marketing and...

Arts & Entertainment / April 30, 2024 Fall in to Fallout

by Maren Ewertz–As someone who has watched people play the game Fallout. I was excited to see that there would be a new Fallout series based on the game streaming on Amazon.. Throughout the series, we are introduced to the characters in a clean and easy to understand way. For someone who doesn’t know much...

News / April 29, 2024 2024 graduates will not receive hoods

by Maren Ewertz–Traditionally, Morningside University graduates received an academic hood at graduation. This hood was white with a maroon chevron pointing upwards. This design originated around 1963. Looking in the Sioux, Morningside’s yearbook that ran from 1901-2004, students appear to wear the hoods we know today in 1963, but not in 1962. As the years went...

Morningside People, News / April 29, 2024 Morningside says goodbye to Terri Curry

by Maren Ewertz–Terri Curry, Vice President for Student Life and Enrollment at Morningside University, has been a well known and integral force for Morningside for nearly four decades.  Curry has dedicated 39 years to Morningside. When Curry was interviewed recently, she touched on her motivation to pursue a career in academia, revealing that her graduate...

News / April 26, 2024 Palmer Research Symposium celebrates student involvement

by Chaise Pfanstiel–Morningside’s Palmer Research Symposium is an annual event that gives students the opportunity to present their research to the community to contribute to the greater knowledge of the campus. It is a campus-wide celebration of student involvement in research. Students were able to present both empirical and non-empirical, completed in a class or...

News / April 21, 2024 Is taking the train worth it? Yes.

by Diego Teixeira Setton–America is not exactly known for being public transport friendly, and its trains are definitely nothing like in Europe or Asia. But can they stand on their own? Recently, I traveled by Amtrak train from Omaha to Chicago. It was my second time taking the trip and while I was moving towards...

News

The Siouxland Chamber of Commerce holds dinner meeting

By Claire DeRoin–The Siouxland Chamber of Commerce Annual Dinner Meeting drew hundreds of locals to the Convention Center September 27.The sharp black and white theme in the banquet hall made for an elegant setting as guests in suits and business garb filed in and filled 112 tables. Servers weaved between tables, their crisp white uniforms…

James Bond takes on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Arts & Entertainment

James Bond takes on The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

By Shelby Powell– David Fincher released the full-length trailer for his latest opus The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which stands at an unprecedented 3 minutes and 45 seconds. Starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara, it is an American adaptation of the literary trilogy written by Steig Larsson. In what could be classified as a…

Fall TV Preview: New Girl
Arts & Entertainment

Fall TV Preview: New Girl

By Shelby Powell– Zooey Deschanel stars in the Fox sitcom New Girl as Jess, a twenty-something in search of an apartment after finding her boyfriend with another woman. She finds herself living with three men, a mix of the male archetypes most viewers are familiar with. There is Nick (Jake M. Johnson), the overly sentimental…

Arts & Entertainment

Gaming isn’t just for kids anymore

By Kevin Green– It’s that time of year again; time to batten down the hatches and get ready for old Jack Frost to come a-dancing. Many of you are from Iowa and live in the dorms at Morningside. So you know all too well that even jaunting out for a bite to eat is soon…

News

International Peace Day

  By Claire De Roin– The International Students Association brought International Peace Day to campus with a paper crane folding table outside of the cafeteria Wednesday, September 21. Chisato Murillo and Jessica Sievers were staffing the table at dinner, teaching students how to fold square pieces of paper into cranes. Each colorful paper bore a…

1 … 286 287 288 289 290 … 302

Searching