Media Mentions

First-year student Quinn Dillon came to Messiah College from Maine with experience as his high school mascot Dexter the Tiger. He didn’t anticipate quickly landing a role as Messiah’s mascot — Fandango the Falcon — and then going “pro” for a Class AA minor league baseball team. Now, Dillon will spend the summer as Rascal for the Harrisburg Senators.

Read “Dillon now pro mascot” from the Bangor Daily News.

On April 13, Messiah College hosted The Compassion Forum, an event that brought Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to campus for a conversation about how their faith informs compassion issues. (Senator McCain was invited, but unfortunately could not attend.) Here’s what various media outlets are saying about the event:

Nationally:
CNN
New York Times
Washington Post (log-in required)
USA Today
Wall Street Journal
Hartford Courant

Locally:
Harrisburg Patriot-News
Carlisle Sentinel
York Dispatch
York Daily Record

Regionally:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Philadelphia Inquirer

An April 6 “Carlisle Sentinel” article about the challenges in the student loan industry quoted Messiah College Financial Aid Director Greg Gearheart about the appeal of direct lending.

Read “Local colleges explain student loan issues.”

Emeritus Professor Clyde A. Ross explored the concert of “just war” in relation to the war in Iraq in a April 6 “As I See It” column for the “Harrisburg Patriot-News.”

“Insisting Iraq war is ‘just’ corrupts Christian tenets” is not available online.

James LaGrand, professor of American history, commented on Senator Barack Obama’s recent “A More Perfect Union” speech in the popular op-ed column “As I See It” in the April 7 “Harrisburg Patriot-News.”

Read “Obama suggests moving past racial divide.”

New faculty member and urban anthropologist Jenell Williams Paris is wondering, “What’s the deal with the East Shore-West Shore divide?” As a Grantham resident who regularly visits Harrisburg with her children, Paris explains in her March 30 “As I See It” column for the “Harrisburg Patriot-News” why the West and East Shores seem much further away than an odometer would tell.

“More than miles separate Harrisburg, West Shore” is not available online.

Messiah College pre-med students practiced “humor in healing” by dressing as clowns and visiting patients at Harrisburg Hospital. The story, on the front page of the Local section of the March 31 “Harrisburg Patriot-News,” features Messiah students’ participation in the “Clowning Around at Harrisburg Hospital” program.

Read “Clowning and Curing.”

As a current Messiah College student and a special contributor to the “Harrisburg Patriot-News,” Prasana William interviewed a number of college students to determine whether there’s more to dinner in the dorms than Ramen noodles and Easy Mac. She shared her findings in a March 25 article.

Read “Campus Cuisine: Many College Students Add Culinary Skills to Major.”

The “Harrisburg Patriot-News” profiled singer Haale in anticipation of her March 26 concert as part of Messiah’s B-Sides series. The concert is free and will take place in Larsen Student Union (not Brubaker as the article indicated) at 10 p.m.

Read “Meet Haale: Singer melds rock with ancestral Persian influences.”

The Falcons traveled to Hope College, Michigan, this past weekend were they scored a decisive 80-60 victory over Oglethorpe College in the Final Four before faltering in the championship game to undefeated Howard Payne.

Read “Messiah plans to continue tradition” in March 20 “Harrisburg Patriot-News.”
Read “Messiah women reach title game” in March 22 “Harrisburg Patriot-News.”
Read “Seniors sink Falcons to claim national title” in March 23 “Harrisburg Patriot-News.”
Read “One more to go for Falcons” from March 22 “Carlisle Sentinel.”
Read “Falcons falter in finals” from March 23 “Carlisle Sentinel.”