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Payje Davis Associate Arts & Culture Editor Officer Andrew Duarte of the West York Borough Police Department was laid to rest on Friday, Feb. 28, at Living Word Community Church in Red Lion, Pennsylvania. Officer Duarte was killed in the line of duty at UPMC Memorial Hospital in West Manchester Twp on Saturday, Feb. 22, […]
Mathya Clay Staff Writer As corporate America grapples with shifting economic pressures and political climates, many companies are scaling back or re-evaluating their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Once celebrated as essential pillars of workplace culture, these programs now face resistance, with some businesses opting to cut back or abandon them entirely. For university […]
Kaya Wagner Staff Writer On Feb. 19 an explosion occurred at a SPS Technologies factory located at Jenkintown in Abington Township. A massive fire then erupted in the 560,000-square-foot facility and led to the evacuation of all 60 workers there. Schools the following day opted to close, with authorities issuing a shelter-in-place order within a […]
Sevan Sinton News Editor On Jan. 28, a conservative advocacy organization filed a lawsuit against multiple Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education schools, including Millersville University, alleging discrimination against white and Asian students in a program that aimed to support minority participation in STEM. The Equal Protection Project EPP alleges that the program is underinclusive, […]
Michael Keehan Staff Writer The Dr. Rita Smith Wade-El Intercultural Center for Student Engagement, or the ICSE for short, is a diversity-related office located in room 111 of the Student Memorial Center (SMC). It opened on Jan. 30, 2018, and was given its current name on Sept. 19 of that year to honor Dr. Smith […]
Kaya Wagner Staff Writer Friday evening, a Medevac jet crashed in a busy Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood, killing at least seven and injuring nineteen others. It has been confirmed by the Federal Aviation Commission that the plane, a forty-three-year-old Learjet 55, took off at 6:30 p.m. from Northeast Philadelphia airport en route to Springfield-Branson National Airport […]
Sevan Sinton News Editor Wednesday, Jan. 29 saw 64 passengers and crew aboard American Eagle Flight 5342 lose their lives after a midair collision with an Army helicopter, which was carrying three soldiers on a training flight above the Potomac River. One day later, President Donald J. Trump issued a memo titled “Immediate Assessment of […]
Sevan Sinton News Editor Former presidential candidate and Trump appointee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced a two-day bombardment of questioning from senate leaders in pursuit of his confirmation to become Head of the Department of Health and Human Services; a nomination he received from President Donald Trump in November. Kennedy fended off questions from the […]
Photo courtesy of GetArchive. A corn filed sits in the middle of a drought. Victor M. Fallas III Staff Writer The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has declared a drought watch for Lancaster County and 34 other counties due to a prolonged period of low rainfall. This advisory calls on residents to voluntarily reduce […]
Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Boeing 777-200LR flies over a mountain rage. Abigail Manbeck News Editor Recently, some of Boeing’s workers were on a seven-week strike. The largest union that is part of Boeing has now ended the strike and approved the latest contract that was part of the cause of said strike. According to […]