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News:
Niranjana Mittal (left) and Blair Vandehey (right).
Meet our new editors!
The Lawrentian Staff
Our new News Editor and Variety Editor introduce themselves this week in News.
Sports:
Forward Laney Martens (24) was a part of the first class to play hockey for Lawrence and will be a part of the first class to graduate in the spring. Photo by Jacob Hanekamp.
Student-athlete feature: Laney Martens
Taylor Hughes
Laney Martens, a senior biology major from the Town of Snowmass Village, Colorado, has left her mark at Lawrence. A dual-sport varsity athlete, she was a part of the first group of athletes to play on the women’s hockey team, and she has also been on the varsity softball team for all four years of her collegiate career.
Variety:
crazy story
Julia Swee
Features:
A Dark-Eyed Junco perched on a tree trunk. Photo by Kai Frueh.
The Twitcher: A birding column
Kai Frueh
The beginning of a new year creates a new opportunity for a new bird list. Birders, including myself, enjoy keeping a year list which resets every year on January first to zero and then try to see as many species as possible in the next 364 days, with varying degrees of obsession. Some birders go all out and chase every single bird in their county, state or country (or if they are going global will fly around the whole world trying to find birds), or they will do it more casually, like myself, and just try to pick up as many species as they can without dropping everything to chase every small rarity that pops up.
Arts & Entertainment:
“Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.” Illustration by Sisa Pallchisaca.
“Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”: A good movie, but a better book
Aleksandra Jimerson-McKinnies
“Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” (2023), directed by Francis Lawrence, is the book-to-movie adaptation of Suzanne Collin’s book of the same name. In this cinematic return to the world of Panem, audiences are taken back in time to the tenth annual Hunger Games.
Opinions & Editorials*:
Opinions & Editorials Editor, Evan Ney.
A letter from the lame duck editor
Evan Ney
As I begin my seventh and final term as Op-Ed editor, the temptation is to write something sappy. It seems like the natural thing to do. There is, of course, a great deal to celebrate in the section looking back on my reign of terror (only slightly joking).
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