Coming Home
By: Katie Hale, Head Copy EditorSeptember 11th, 2013Driving back to Decorah after spending seven months away was a bizarre experience.read more
View ArticleRemembering all parts of history
By: Bethany Seavers Templeton, Copy EditorSeptember 18th, 2014I remember. I remember sitting in my grandparents’ kitchen before school. I remember the phone ringing, my grandparents saying it was my...
View ArticleRemembering all parts of history
By: Bethany Seavers Templeton, Copy EditorSeptember 18th, 2014I remember. I remember sitting in my grandparents’ kitchen before school. I remember the phone ringing, my grandparents saying it was my...
View ArticleDisliking showers, of the bridal and baby variety
By: Sarah King, Managing EditorSeptember 18th, 2014I am not a fan of showers. No, I don’t mean the kind that helps us all maintain healthy hygiene. I think it is important that we all bathe. I do like...
View ArticleDon’t touch me
By: Casey DeLima, Features EditorSeptember 25th, 2014A few days ago, YouTuber Sam Pepper released a video of a “prank” in which he pinches the butts of females on the street while asking them for...
View ArticleHow sick is too sick for class?
By: Katie Hale, Head Copy EditorOctober 2nd, 2014I hate missing class, and I always have. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve muddled through a cold or worse to go to school, staying home...
View ArticleRacism can never be “just for fun”
By: Casey DeLima, Features EditorOctober 9th, 2014I can hear the scoffs of “don’t be so sensitive” and “you’re looking too far into it” and “it’s just for fun” already. We’ve heard them once, we’ve...
View ArticleThank you, Luther College Confessions
By: Anna Jeide, News EditorOctober 9th, 2014I normally do not follow Luther College Confessions, but after friends and fellow students brought up the page numerous times, I decided to look for myself...
View ArticleWhat are opinions?
By: Sarah King, Managing EditorOctober 16th, 2014Part of Chips’s mission as the main source of student journalism at Luther College is to create a newspaper with unbiased, factual reporting. We try our...
View ArticleReflections from a Peace Scholar
By: Anna Jeide, News EditorOctober 30th, 2014If you’re like me, you feel that break was just enough time to resurface for a breath of fresh air before plunging back into the depths of research papers,...
View ArticleAgainst “DTRing” and labels in general
By: Sarah King, Managing EditorNovember 6th, 2014I frequently invite my friends over for tea. No, I am not mad nor am I a hatter (please excuse my painfully bad joke; I just couldn’t resist), I just...
View ArticleIt’s the most terrible time of the year
By: Sarah King, Managing EditorNovember 13th, 2014It’s that time of the year again. The barren trees and wilting prairie make the landscape a sad shade of brownish/grayish, the temperature drops daily...
View ArticleWhy we should celebrate International Men’s Day
By: Anna Jeide, News EditorNovember 20th, 2014Why do we need International Men’s Day? I have heard this question a lot lately. Perhaps it is a fair question. Men still hold the position of power in...
View ArticleAddressing bad audience behavior
By: Sarah King, Managing EditorNovember 20th, 2014Last Friday I saw “In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play,” and I do not think I could have been more disappointed. I wasn’t disappointed with the...
View ArticleThe big question
By: Sarah King, Managing EditorDecember 11th, 2014It’s that time of the year again, folks. Yes, it’s the time for giving, the time for carols and the time for overindulgence. It’s the most wonderful...
View ArticleHoly guacamole!
By: ?, February 12, 2015While Luther’s usual buzz of activity was engaged in a brief respite during J-break, controversy ensued in Norman, Oklahoma, over an online post by the Oklahoma University...
View ArticleIs lying ever okay?
By: Sarah King, Managing EditorFebruary 12, 2015The truth hurts. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is suffering. There are so many different ways people have said this, but what they all come down to is...
View ArticleSenate infringes on freedom of the press
By: Sarah King, Managing EditorFebruary 19, 2015This week, if you flip to page three of our paper, you will read the headline “Honor Council to Change Honor Code.” What you won’t read, however, is how...
View ArticleAddressing journalistic integrity
By: Sarah King, Managing EditorFebruary 19, 2015Brian Williams has recently been under a lot of fire, but not the kind he used to claim to have experienced. On Feb. 4, military newspaper Stars and...
View ArticleTU threatens action against newspaper
By: --, February 26, 2015When University of Tulsa student George “Trey” Barnett was suspended in October without a hearing after a series of posts allegedly harassing three faculty and a student...
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