Newly appointed Associate Dean of Students Rick Warner was getting ready for church on Sunday, October 5, when he received the news that Wabash freshman Johnny Smith had passed away early that morning. The tragedy pulled him away from his usual Sunday worship and back to the Wabash campus to deal with the situation.
Three [...]

The Dark Knight came out in theaters this past summer. Its general plot development was fairly easy to anticipate: When there is gross injustice; when the world becomes polluted with evil and no one is there to step up against it; when good things get ruined by bad people; and when good people get ruined [...]

Americans tend to have a peculiarity that defies logical explanation. For a nation known as a union whose citizens affectionately tout the motto “United We Stand,” America is divided on almost every issue and in almost every setting. From the great halls of Congress to the classic halls of a certain small liberal [...]

Though one might not notice it, Crawfordsville is a fairly diverse community when it comes to religion. The city boasts thriving Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Catholic congregations in addition to countless churches that sprinkle the city and the surrounding farmlands. Just like many communities, Crawfordsville is also home to a small population of members of [...]

by Brent Kent ‘09
and Jay Horrey ‘09
On October 28, 2007, Wabash College freshman Patrick Woehnker, 19, fell to his death after gaining access to the roof of an academic building. Woehnker and four other students entered the building via an underground maintenance tunnel.
The five underage students had consumed alcohol, but it was ruled out as [...]

How did your political career begin?
I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, and my father was very active in politics. In fact, he ran for the U.S. Senate and won. However, he died in a plane crash, and John Warner took up the mantle and was elected to the senate in 1978, so he’s [...]

Sitting here in Lancaster, England, I have found time to ponder many things—most notably how much I miss our dear college. I remember my “Ringing In” ceremony and a passage read by President White from Shakespeare’s Henry V after the English had defeated the French at the Battle of Avincourt: “We few, we happy [...]

Amid all the fuss during this election, I wonder if anybody else has grown tired of the finger pointing regarding media biases. And if the finger pointing in itself wasn’t enough, we have to endure tiresomely clichéd slogans (i.e. “CNN: No Bias No Bull” or “FOX: Fair and Balanced”) that claim objectivity and are repeated [...]

I have been thinking about Midwestern literature lately, and re-reading Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio. Anderson had no sense of plot, and he was careless with his characters, mooning over their inner lives while simultaneously taking inordinate pleasure in their lack of communicative skills. He immerses his characters in the most pathetic spiritual conditions, yet each [...]