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By Emily Gibson Staff Writer Photo courtesy of Trevecca Marketing A new dorm that will house nearly 300 male and female students is on track to finish on time and budget to open in fall 2023. “We have talked about doing this for years and the need to do this for years, so it’s wonderful to see it come to pass,” said Ronda Lilienthal, associate dean of students for residential life. The new 112,000 square feet residence hall is the first dorm to be built on campus since Benson Hall was constructed in 1974 and will be open to students who have completed 50 or more credit hours by the end of this semester. The residence hall features seven floors with apartment-style rooms; a lobby space on each floor; six study rooms; a rooftop terrace with ...

By Lauren Steinbok Staff Writer Parker McClellan took Chemistry II in the spring of his freshman year. Up until then, he had been getting good grades, despite missing out on the last couple years of high school. He got back a test that he made a “C” on and thought he could probably benefit from tutoring. “It kind of freaked me out,” said McClellan. “I wanted to actually figure out what was going on. So, I started to get individual tutoring.” Photo by Miriam Rixon Experts call it “the COVID generation.” Essentially, this year’s freshman class missed nearly two years of in person high school classes because of the pandemic. Now, colleges around the county, including Trevecca, are finding ways to help them catch up and succeed at the college level. “Virtual learning...

By Abigail Allen Staff Writer Photo by Claire Anderson Trevecca students with federal loans, like senior elementary education student Bethany Maynard, are waiting to hear whether a plan by the Biden administration to forgive those loans will happen. President Biden’s student loan debt relief program has been blocked by courts due to multiple lawsuits against the program. The Supreme Court will hear arguments in February about the legality of the program. Six states—Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and South Carolina— asserted that the Biden Administration overstepped its authority with the program, claiming that it would take away states’ future tax revenue. Other individuals also filed lawsuits against the program. “I was a little bit disappointed because, onc...

By Michelle Loria and Grace Poole  Staff Writers Photo courtesy of Trevecca Marketing Waggoner Library will likely be closed the rest of the semester after a burst pipe flooded parts of the building over Christmas break. The closed space, which included a coffee shop, has limited places students have on campus to study and hang out, but Trevecca President Dan Boone said administration is working with the insurance company and contractors to get the space fixed, and possibly even reconfigured to better serve students.  “We’re doing a significant study to see if we’re going to reconfigure the library for student use,” he said. Some of the questions Boone said his team is asking include exploring if there is a way to do a better set up for the coffee...