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.

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 presidential candidates would be wise to consider a stop in a place like Grantham, according to Ford Turner in a Feb. 17 frontpage “Patriot-News” article about the potential power of Pennsylvania’s young voters, primarily those on college campuses. After interviewing several Messiah College students and students from other area colleges, Turner surmises college campuses could be crucial in the candidates’ searches for votes.

Read “Candidates may gravitate to would-be voters on college campuses”

Broad media coverage of an airplane’s emergency landing Jan. 30 has brought some Messiah College students into the spotlight. Twenty-four Messiah students and two educators were traveling home on Jan. 30 from a J-Term cross-cultural trip to the French West Indies when the cockpit of their plane filled with smoke. Ninety minutes from land, the passengers were briefed in procedures for a potential water landing and emergency land evacuation. Thankfully, the plane safely landed in West Palm Beach, Florida.

A sampling of the media coverage:
Read “American jet diverts to PBIA with smoke-filled cockpit” from the “South Florida Sun-Sentinel.”
Read “Keeping Faith on Flight” from the “York Daily Record.”
Read “Panic, then joy as jetliner lands at PBIA with smoky cockpit” from the “South Florida Sun-Sentinel.”
Read “Students prayed as damaged airliner headed to PBIA” from the “Palm Beach Post.”
Read “Frightening flight” from the “Philadelphia Daily News.”
Read what local television stations are reporting: NBC 8, ABC 27, and CBS 21.
Read “Fear, chaos in the sky” from the “Lancaster New Era.”
Read “Emergency landing: Hanover women recalls smoke, panic, prayer” in the “Hanover Evening Sun.”

For senior Nikki Lobach, the countdown to graduation includes several significant milestones. Between now and then, Lobach is getting married, seeking a job, and hoping to help lead the Lady Falcons basketball team to a national championship. Aspirations for a national championship aren’t unfounded — the team is currently 13-1 and ranked ninth in the nation among DIII schools; Lobach leads in scoring. “The Hanover Evening Sun,” Lobach’s hometown newspaper, spoke with the basketball star and Coach Mike Miller in a January 12 article.

Read “Messiah standout juggles several roles in her senior year.”

After four phenomenal years with the Falcons, senior soccer player Kai Kasigurn has been recognized as the DIII Player of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Kasiguran is the third Messiah player to earn this top honor.

In a December 26 story in the “Harrisburg Patriot-News,” coach Dave Brandt said of Kasiguran, “Kai is perhaps the most accomplished player in the history of Division III soccer.”

Read “Kasiguran ends career as top Division III player.”

College students around the country find creative ways to blow off steam during finals week. At Messiah, they scream at midnight. This tradition earned the College a mention in a recent AP story about how students keep their sanity during finals week.

Read “Students de-stress during finals”