The Collegian Reporter – Page 48

News / October 6, 2026 My Very Own Taste of Morningside

By Carter Gill – As the Morningside Mustangs faced the Dakota Wesleyan Tigers at the Homecoming football game this weekend, Morningside’s annual Taste of Morningside event kicked off with a selection of local Sioux City food and drink vendors. Vendors included: Sippin’ 712, Kai Thai, Morningside Beef, Blue Tequila on the Go, 2 Fire Smash...

News / September 30, 2026 ODK’s Into the Streets

By Doreen Mshana – Morningside University students recently took part in an exciting event called “Into the Streets,” sponsored by Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK), in Sioux City. This event aimed to help the community and encourage students to get involved. Through Into the Streets, students gain a deeper understanding of their local community and recognize...

News / September 30, 2026 Sports Management Class Aims to Level the Playing Field Through Experiential Learning

By Cameron Hamilton – In Katy Burford’s sports management class, the students are looking to improve and manipulate the game-changing factor of fan engagement and support. The class does this in cooperation with Morningside’s Pack the Stands events, held at specific home games for different sports throughout the year. Sports management is a relatively new...

News / September 30, 2026 Live-Posting Past Events, As If It Were Today

By RyAnne Steffen –If today’s social media were around for major events from the past, how would it appear? Would we be updated every hour, every minute, every second? Thanks to the X account @25YearsAgoLive (2001Live), we can now make an estimate of how those situations may have been handled. 2001Live, curated by Manny Marotta,...

News / September 18, 2026 Spanish Club Invites Morningside Students to Celebrate Latino Heritage in Siouxland

By Brayan Ramos – As September continues, the Siouxland community will have an opportunity to celebrate Latino heritage through a series of events connecting students, families, and community members through culture and education. The celebration began Wednesday, September 9, with the Spanish Club’s Spanish Film Festival at the UPS Auditorium at the Lincoln Center. The...

News / September 17, 2026 Sweet Corn Eating Contest

By Doreen Mshana – The Morningside Garden Club brought hands-on agriculture, community donation, and fierce student rivalry together last week during its second annual Sweet Corn Eating Contest at the Buhler outdoor theatre. This summer, AAFS interns planted sweet corn in the Cargill Outdoor Classroom. On September 9 students in AGRI classes 130, 234, and...

News / September 17, 2026 Klinger-Neal Theatre Receives Upgrades Thanks to Partnership with Lamb Theatre

By Carter Gill – Morningside University’s Klinger-Neal Theatre received a major facelift this summer with help from the new partnership with LAMB Theatre and their generous $1 million donation. These renovations bring massive improvements for theatre goers and students alike. Some of the biggest changes coming to Klinger-Neal are brand new state-of-the art technology, including...

Features, Morningside People, Sports

Sims survives childhood cancer

by Alexis Spier–McKenna Sims is the point guard for the women’s basketball team. She was diagnosed with cancer when she was four years old. Lymphocytic leukemia is a type of cancer where the bone marrow makes too many white blood cells. Sims became very sick when she was four, and her mother took her to…

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Transgender athletes

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…

Arts & Entertainment

‘Uncharted’ jumps to the big screen

by Payton Miller–The long-awaited adventure that is Uncharted hit theaters on February 8th, and fans of the original video games have got a lot to say about the adaptation. Tom Holland has taken a step away from the friendly neighborhood hero to play a treasure hunting pickpocket, a side of Holland that fans have never…

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Student Athletes and Sleep

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…

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Sex trafficking: A local problem

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…

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Morningside Lends a Hand to Ukraine Families

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,…