Author Archives: Heidi Paxson

Top 10 Facts About World Series

1. The Fall Classic didn’t begin until 1903- other post-season championship series existed before that 2. American Association folded in 1891 and the National League absorbed four of the American Association’s former franchises, expanding to twelve teams 3. William C. Temple built the foundation of post-season popularity with a championship trophy to the winner of […]

Climate change is real and complacency is dangerous

Clinton is the only candidate to combat this  By Clay Parlette @claypar111 A look at the official GOP platform reveals an elegant collection of positions, weaved with patriotic bits of American exceptionalism and statistically derived logic that appears to make the Republican way of thinking the “obvious” way of thinking. Why does the party oppose […]

Political climate on campus heats up

Check-in with the College Democrats and Republicans  By Darius Merriweather @WishUWereOCHO With Election Day rapidly approaching, most Americans are pretty set on who they are casting their ballot for come November. The same can be said at the University of Findlay. Students have been increasingly involved in supporting their candidates and the two student groups […]

Climate change: None of the candidates have the answer

By Reilly Butz @reillybutz7 Since the second Presidential Debate featured a memorable question from the self-made legend Ken Bone, clean, efficient energy has become the topic of discussion. Ken’s question was perfect. It included how each candidate would try to improve efforts for clean and efficient energy, while preventing mass job loss. While neither candidate […]

UF volleyball keeps the ball rolling

Lady Oilers hope to maintain winning streak  By Martyce Kimbrough @TheRealBuddha20 The UF volleyball team is coming off of a big weekend at the GLIAC/GLVC Mizuno Midwest Region Volleyball Crossover Tournament on Saturday, Oct. 15 in Aurora, Illinois. The Oilers had two victories over Missouri-St. Louis and Drury. They defeated Missouri-St. Louis in sets of […]

After 18 years, Coach Strahm’s legacy still impacts Oilers

Strahm made a ‘bond of brothers’ on the football field  By Kevin Scrock @KRock_6 Some students go to college to get away from their parents. For anyone who played football for former Findlay coach Dick Strahm, they found another one. The 2004 College Football Hall of Fame Inductee led the University of Findlay to four […]

Members of the Saitama Prefectural Assembly to visit Oct. 16

Japanese officials to talk politics and business with Oilers  By Kelsey Nevius @kelnevs On Oct. 16 and 17, students from the University of Findlay will get a chance to connect with officials from Japan. Members from the Saitama Prefectural Assembly will be visiting the campus to help increase intercultural relationships and learning. As the only […]

Clowns on campus

Spraw: ‘It’s not a good time to be clowning around’  By Melissa Carrick @MelissaCarrick As Halloween nears, the number of clown sightings and reports increase. UF’s security is taking this issue seriously as they responded to an incident on Oct. 3 at 6:45 p.m. According to William Spraw, UF’s chief of police and director of […]

Bobby’s WLFC Weekly Review – I Had A Dream That You Were Mine – Rostam and Hamilton Leithauser

By Bobby Beebe @howamibobby Rostam Batmanglij left Vampire Weekend early this year stating he wanted to spend more time working on different projects, specifically more electronic music. This made it quite shocking when he released a new guitar-based record, I Had A Dream That You Were Mine with former Walkmen frontman Hamilton Leithauser. The duo […]

Gervais earns GLIAC Offensive Player of the Week

UF QB breaks Findlay records  By Martyce Kimbrough @TheRealBuddha20 Junior quarterback Rhys Gervais has been named the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Offensive Player of the Week due to his efforts in Sept. 24’s 58-13 win over Lake Erie College. “I felt very comfortable with our game plan going into the game,” said Gervais. […]