Current Staff Writers of the Thielensian (Fall 2022):
- Anna Boyd (Editor-In-Chief)
- Jacob Walsh (Co-Editor)
- Hannah Stoughton (Webmaster)
- Jason Walsh
- Katlyn Phillips
- Colin Schroyer
By: Virginia Riddle The University of Michigan (U-M) was granted $13 million from the National Cancer Institute to track how exposure to environmental contaminants could lead to cancer. The grant will be put into U-M’s School of Public Health and Rogel Cancer Center, specifically to the program of […]
Image Credit: Finance MonthlyBy Adam Button The recent uproar in cryptocurrency has brought more awareness to the problems that arise from such currencies like Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Ethereum. The main problem is the large carbon footprint, that the generation of cryptocurrency creates. What is cryptocurrency? There are six […]
By: Anna Boyd Abortion laws in the United States have been continuously argued for years. In the past year alone, many states have reopened the biggest case in the abortion battle, Roe vs. Wade. The Supreme Court made its decision in 1973 regarding this case, regulating the circumstances […]
By: Anna Boyd Florida Oct. 20: Remains and personal belongings of Brian Laundrie were found. Laundrie is the fiancé of Gabby Petito, he has been missing for over a month. The remains were found in Florida’s Carlton Reserve in a location that had been previously submerged underwater. While […]
Image Credit: Democracy NowBy Virginia Riddle Washington, DC Oct. 14: Indigenous water protectors started protests against the continued construction of Line 3 through a sit-in at the Interior Department in Washington, D.C. The protests were sparked by the Line 3 pipeline being built through numerous existing Indigenous territories. […]
Image Credit: AAMCBy: Dylan Evans Washington, D.C., Oct. 20: The White House announced that in two weeks, legislature will be detailing a plan to distribute vaccines to school children ages 5-11. Over the next two weeks, federal regulators will discuss the benefits of vaccinating school children, after taking […]
By: Samantha Walker Oct 19: Dr. Rachel Levine has become the first openly transgender four-star officer in the United States. Dr. Levine has been promoted to an admiral, which is the highest rank available within the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Before being sworn in as […]
Image Credit: CNBC By: Virginia Riddle Oct. 14: A panel of medical experts for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have voted in favor of the Moderna requests to make booster shots for COVID-19 vaccinations publicly available. The vote was unanimous, with all 19 panel members supporting a […]
By: Anna Boyd University of Delaware was in uproar over the past week after an assault was committed on a female student. A 20-year-old student Brandon Freyre got into an altercation with an ex-girlfriend after attending multiple parties that night. They were fighting due to the victim attending […]
Image Credit: Medill News Service By: Dylan Evans Washington, DC, Sept. 28: The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that a commission for farmers of color to address, as they stated, “racial equity issues.” Black farmers have expressed how they have been feeling discriminated by the USDA […]
By: Virginia Riddle Oct 5: Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro reported 46 criminal charges facing the Mariner East 2 pipeline. There were also an additional two charges reported to Shapiro’s office by the Pennsylvania Department of Protection (DEP). The Mariner East 2 is a natural gas pipeline that […]
Image by Thiel Women’s Volleyball InstagramBy: Hannah Stoughton Since the start of October 2021, the Thiel Tomcats women’s volleyball team has won 5 of their 6 matches, placing them at 4th in the PAC with a 6-4 PAC record as of October 10th, 2021. On October 2nd, the […]
By Adam Button OCTOBER 5th – Following a network outage of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus; Facebook apologizes to all users publicly on Twitter while defending themselves in court for knowingly harming their audiences for profit. On Monday, October 4th at 12:00pm EST, Facebook’s services were left inaccessible […]
By: Hannah Stoughton Sept. 29 –Thiel College men’s soccer team beat St. Vincent College 2-0 in the Presidential Athletic Conference (PAC) opener for both teams. The first half of the game was scoreless, with 15 shots between each team on goal. The teams managed to fight each other […]
By: Anna Boyd Henrietta Lacks was an African American woman living in the 1950’s when she was diagnosed with a sever case of cervical cancer. She sought for treatment at Johns Hopkins Hospital located in Baltimore Maryland. She was being treated by Doctor George Grey. Dr. Grey took […]
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