Henry Thornton Junior Editor Author’s Note: This article will delve into the terms used in the conversation about campus sexual assault but it will not
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An ode to squirrels
By Dori Wilson Contributing Writer The Sewanee squirrels are well known for their obnoxious attitudes. They stare at you from trees, pick at any scrap
Sewanee soccer beats Rhodes!
Photo by Kimberly Williams By Keenan Lo Executive Staff The Sewanee Women’s Soccer Team won their sixth consecutive game on Friday, defeating rival Rhodes in
Club hockey returns for second season
By Martin Davis Staff Writer After a successful first season, the Sewanee Ice Hockey Club is back. Founded in the late fall of Vanderbilt, Belmont,
Sewanee sequesters carbon and conducts research on Haitian farms
Photo courtesy of Pradip Malade By Duncan Pearce Contributing Writer This past summer, Sewanee made its first payments for carbon sequestration to farmers in Haiti’s
Sewanee water campaign makes great strides
Photo by Kimberly Williams By Lam Ho Executive Editor The Sewanee Water campaign (once known as the Think Outside the Bottle campaign), a student initiative
Panelists address destruction of Palmyra
By Fleming Smith Executive Staff In late August of this year, the terrorist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) destroyed historic ruins at
Rerouting the Fiery Gizzard
Photo courtesy of awjphotography.files.wordpress.comlandowners By Maria Baker Staff Writer Chances are, if you’ve been at Sewanee for any amount of time, you’ve heard of Fiery
Historian McClay speaks on place
By Fleming Smith Executive Staff On September 16 in Guerry Auditorium, noted historian Wilfred McClay discussed the question, “Does Place Matter?” McClay argued that a
Award winning authors visit Sewanee
By Lauren Patterson Staff Writer On September 9 two extremely talented authors, Bobbie Ann Mason and Steve Yarbrough, held a fiction reading in Gailor Auditorium.