Dear Brutus, My family is coming to Milligan for the first time for Homecoming. What do you suggest we do while they’re here? Sincerely, Out of Ideas Dear Out of Ideas, Homecoming is a great time for family to visit! The weather is finally starting to cool down and the mountains are beautiful with the […]
Sometimes, the best escape from college stress can be found in creating content for entertainment, expressing talent, or even having simple conversations. Several students at Milligan College use their free time to unravel their creativity into YouTube videos. Brent Doolittle is a senior majoring in communications who is currently hosting live streams and video skits […]
Smiling clowns can sound like a fun time for some people. For others, it’s the worst nightmare imaginable. In the 2017 movie adaptation of Stephen King’s It, smiling clowns is a terrifying reality in the small town of Derry, Maine. When Georgie (Jackson Robert Scott), a young boy with a passion for fun, goes missing […]
If you are anything like me, appropriately decorating your room for the season is a must–especially in the autumn and winter months. I know, I know. Poor college students don’t necessarily have the budgets to perform a complete room makeover every four months. But here are a few cheap tricks to give your dorm a […]
The Lady Buff basketball players from the ‘80s will have the opportunity to reunite on Nov. 3. Growing up, I heard stories about Milligan’s basketball team from my mom, Karen Barker Williams, who played in the mid ‘80s, and the people and friendships she talked about made me want to attend Milligan. One of my […]
Two dates that have become important to the residents of Kingsport are Oct. 4, 1960, and Oct. 4, 2017. These are the dates of the explosions at Eastman Chemical Company. The explosion in 1960 took a high toll on the community. Sixteen people died and over 400 were injured. The recent explosion was on a […]
This past Thursday, students piled into the Steve Lacy Fieldhouse for Moonlight Madness. Both the men’s and women’s basketball teams played a scrimmage, and the cheer and dance team previewed some of their numbers for the year. The highlight of the basketball games was when junior soccer player Amy Long joined the women’s team and […]
Last Friday, Milligan’s honors program hosted a professor from Appalachian State University who spoke on how literature and science, specifically sciences like biology and ecology, could benefit from each other. Dr. Kathryn Kirkpatrick is an English professor of feminist, cultural and ecocritical theory; Irish literature and culture; and poetry and poetics. In her lecture titled […]
Ever wonder what worm racing is? Just ask a Buffalo Rambler. On Oct. 21, the Buffalo Ramblers will drive to Banner Elk, NC, to experience the 40th Annual Woolly Worm Festival; after the race, the Ramblers will hike up the Blue Ridge Parkway to Rough Ridge — a two mile round-trip. The plan is to […]