The Wayne Stater

Letter to the Editor

Karen Granberg • September 7, 2016

To the Editor of the Stater: Thank you to Morgan Stough for the story, Title IX includes LGBQT, in last week’s Stater. The story gives me the opportunity to say “thank you” to WSC Administrators...

High on the Plains: Let’s wrestle, a dirty political love story with dinosaurs

Chad Christensen • September 7, 2016

It was Labor Day weekend, and I did like many Americans—I tried not to labor. I sat on my back deck in the shade with a cocktail and tried to tune everything out. Occasionally, when I found the strength,...

New Beginnings

Mason Schweizer, Staff Writer • August 31, 2016

On July 10, the Stater won the Academic Freedom Coalition of Nebraska award for intellectual freedom, largely in part to our dedicated and in-depth journalism on what has been happening with the administration....

Temporary Fulfilment

Stephanie Hempel • August 31, 2016

The year is two thousand and sixteen. The Earth has not yet fallen to pieces even though violence has wrapped its untimely grip around the human core. The people who have decided themselves fit to govern...

Past lessons on freedom, tolerance and smoking bans

Dr. Todd Greene, Guest Columnist • August 31, 2016

The last time WSC Student Senate pushed hard for a campus-wide outdoor smoking ban was in 2010. That year a veteran of the war in Iraq approached me outside of Connell Hall. He smoked cigarettes. This...

A letter to Sayde

Thadd Simpson, Staff Writer • August 31, 2016

My sister is going to be a freshman this year. Not at Wayne, oh no, she needed a longer runway for the landing jet plane that is her life, but still, a freshman is a freshman. So I decided to write a letter...

‘The boom splat’

Sarah Lentz, Opinion Editor • April 28, 2016

All day, Meryl Streep’s rendition of “Last Midnight,” from “Into the Woods,” has been playing in my head because this is my “last midnight, the boom splat.” In a few weeks my Wayne State...

Mason’s maundered musings: Johnny Eightball

Mason Schweizer, Columnist • April 28, 2016

Few athletes in recent memory have been as polarizing as Johnny Manziel, or his alter-ego-like nickname Johnny Football. Johnny wooed even the casual fan with his unbelievable play, earning him the...

High on the Plains: Retro gaming, the Jimmy Buffett mentality and the angry cat

Chad Christensen, Columnist • April 28, 2016

It’s late here in the sleepy hills of Ponca, and I’m banging my fingers on the keys. My cat is extra mean tonight. He was in a showdown with the neighbor’s cat and apparently sh*t is on. Cats...

Sunshine state of mind: ‘if it scares you, do it’

Stephanie Hempel, Columnist • April 21, 2016

Before I took off on the plane to Greece I was handed a note that said “if it scares you, do it” written in artistically cultured penmanship by my friend Morgan Bentley. As an alumni of the Greece...

The last goodbye

Laura Anderson, Editor-in-Chief • April 21, 2016

As I sit here on a Tuesday night trying to write a goodbye column to you all, I realize that no one will truly care to read about this (myself included.) I mean, Wayne State College, how do...

Delusion of Grandeur: Improv through life

Natasha Fuehrer, Columnist • April 21, 2016

Have you ever prepared for a conversation or had to do something that you’re like, “I’d rather have my toenails ripped off than write this paper” or “I think I’d rather be chased by Michael...