As October comes to a close, the American media apparatus begins its biennial harvest. The “October surprise” is an event wherein political actors and campaigns unleash last-ditch negative PR about their opponents, while the media collects and reports it. The goal is to make a party’s opponent look personally bad, because a voter’s final decision...
Year: 2024
Hacks for Saga meals
When everything from the cereal to the salad bar is fair game, students get creative in the dining hall. Having many meals’ worth of experience, they shared tricks to making Metz’s food in the Knorr Family Dining Room to their taste. Saga’s soft-serve ice cream machines are many students’ favorite, but some put a twist...
Ever considered mind control? Try Media Theory
The air loom is a mind-control device capable of manipulating and influencing the thoughts of an individual from afar. James Tilly Matthews wrote of a network of these devices operated by gangs across London in his journal during the late 18th century. The victims targeted by the loom, including Matthews himself, could experience everything from...
Populism must serve Constitutional ideals, Heritage president says
Kevin Roberts, the president of The Heritage Foundation, discusses America’s founding ideals in Drummond lecture. Courtesy | Olivia Pero “I’m Kevin Roberts from Project 2025, and I’m here to help,” the president of The Heritage Foundation said as he opened his speech for the Drummond Lectures in Christ Chapel series Oct. 23. The Left has...
Dear Collegian, As a Christian, I’ll be voting for Donald…Duck
You know whom I really hate? These so-called “conservative Christians” who vote for Donald Trump. That’s why I will be casting my vote for Donald Duck this election… because I am a good person. Of course, I don’t really mean that I “hate” hate them — I don’t think I could “hate” hate anyone — but...




