The Aviso AVW

  Our campus tends to categorize people in one of three ways: single, Malone couple, and engaged. What a narrow way of thinking about a person! It is sad to be defined by one’s relationship status. This is a problem. We (and, yes, I also have been guilty) are so quick to label someone in [...]

  When classes started again after the week off for spring break I wrote a Pioneer Focus on senior first baseman Matt Anderson. In the piece, one of the questions I always ask is what your biggest superstition is and Anderson’s answer was glaringly different from past Pioneer focuses. “Eye blacking guys on the team [...]

  “I believe in relationship, not religion.” This phrase is thrown around a lot—especially on a Christian campus. While I used to believe quite strongly in this statement, I’ve begun to reconsider. After all, do we have the correct definition of religion? According to good ol’ Merriam Webster, religion is “a cause, principle or system [...]

  I remember visiting Malone for the first time five years ago and talking to the person who would soon become one of most influential people in my life: Dr. Chris Carmichael. This was the first time I met Dr. Carmichael. I had heard of the program he set up at Malone from my high [...]

  “You’re the first student this year who actually wrote times down for classes next semester!” –an enthusiastic Andrew Rudd. Advising. Everyone hates it. I remember posting and reading several Facebook statuses on the subject. Posts on how hard it is to figure out the schedules, fitting everything in and making sure you can graduate [...]

  Before I begin, I want to give my highest regard to Angela Mahoney for her brilliant rhetoric in the prevous opinion piece. She was very concise and made some valid points. I’m not here to necessarily dismantle the validity of those points, but rather to convey a different perspective from someone within the department [...]

  In My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers wrote on the topic of obedience and used the 1 Samuel account of Samuel and Eli to illustrate his point. In the story, God ordered Samuel to tell some things to Eli that Samuel thought wouldn’t sit too well, but he told Eli anyway because it [...]

  If you’ve ever read Brave New World, you may remember the characters in it going to see the “feelies.” Basically, the feelies were movies that engaged all the senses, including the sense of touch. Writing in the early 1930s, author Aldous Huxley was clearly satirizing the role of movies in modern culture, suggesting that [...]

  Today is Valentine’s Day, which means that love is in the air … whatever that’s supposed to mean. Each year, Feb. 14 is the day when all the couples out there get to celebrate their love for one other with little chocolate hearts, adorable kisses and candlelit dinners. It’s also the day when all [...]

  This year, I was part of a three-person writing team who wrote a 10 minute play in the space of one sleepless night. If you’re reading this and you don’t know what 24 Hour Theater is, you’re a sucker who already missed out. (I don’t mince words). I feel sorry for you, because there [...]