Student-Run Newspaper of Thiel College
By: Heather Farr It has been a little over a month since the catastrophic train derailment happened in Ohio. Since then, Ohio Attorney General David Yost filed a 58-count federal lawsuit against the train company,…
By: Colin Schroyer February 28, 2022: Starting on Thursday, February 23, and continuing into the following days, the state of California was hit by a historic blizzard in the nation’s most significant winter storm. All…
By: Virginia Riddle Environmental “win-wins”, or objectives that have little negative environmental impact, are becoming more and more difficult to come by. An example of an environmental win-win would be the mass fishing of shrimp…
By Virginia Riddle Friday, December 3rd, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the request of Maine lobster fishers to lift fishing restrictions that were set in place to protect North Atlantic right whales. Lobstering groups claimed…
Photo Credit: National Congress of the American Indians By: Samantha Walker Washington, DC, NOV. 3: Last Wednesday National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) President Fawn Sharp was announced as a delegate for the 26th United…
By: Virginia Riddle Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s billionaire founder, pledged during a Glasgow climate summit to put $2 billion towards restoring environmental habitats and food systems. On top of this, he plans to have Amazon power…
Grant to Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad will cut harmful diesel emissions HERMITAGE, Nov. 1 – Grant funding of $2.9 million will allow Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Co. to reduce its fleet’s diesel emissions by…
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…
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…
By: Samantha Walker Within the last month there have been a magnitude of whether related disasters from all parts of the world. There has been talk of climate change and the threat of the irreparable…
By Cassie Stolz The late morning celebrations were thought-provoking and full of laughter. Thursday, April 15 Thiel’s Environmental club celebrated earth day a week early to avoid overlapping with the research symposium. Visitors from Ernst…
By Bobby Winner This past Thursday, the Thiel community came together to participate in a campus-wide community cleanup day as a part of the NCAA’s Division III Week. The event consisted of many of Thiel’s…
