Over the past few weeks, I have had the honor of sitting down with the seniors of the Decaturian. These people have been my mentors and some of my first friends at Millikin. As they prepare for graduation, seniors Athena Pajer, Jordan Diver, Caleb Kelch, and Alexia McDermott reflect on some of their...

    A three-alarm fire engulfed an abandoned Aramark building in Decatur Saturday, spewing billows of black smoke, visible for miles. Almost all of Decatur’s fire stations responded, but the cause of the fire is still unknown. Though dozens of people gathered at the intersection...

Your mental health can’t always wait until an appointment becomes available at the campus health clinic. So, we turn to the resource immediately available to us: our phones.  There is an app for practically everything now, including personal mental health. There’s an array of apps providing counseling...

Despite being part of the same school, Millikin University’s arts and athletic departments have responded differently as the one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 shutdown has passed. Arts and athletics have had drastically different goals and barriers both prior to and following the pandemic. Those...

Our mental health affects us in many ways. The covid pandemic has shifted our experiences from in-person to online. How has it affected our mental health?  According to CNET, “To say that the past year has done a number on our collective mental health is an understatement. The coronavirus pandemic,...