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The Clarion

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The Clarion

Kaitlyn Kast (15) dribbles past a Joliet Junior College defender during her team’s home victory on Feb. 17. Madison College beat both Joliet and Rock Valley College to win the NJCAA Division II Regional IV title.

Women’s basketball team wins region IV championship

Bailey Ayres, Sports Editor March 1, 2016

Rock Valley College has been the team to beat in both the North Central Community College Conference and the NJCAA Division III Region IV women’s basketball tournament. Despite splitting regular-season...

Todd Bowie tunes a guitar on stage before the start of an Eagles concert.

Todd Bowie’s rock and roll fantasy

Bailey Ayres, Sports Editor February 17, 2016

The students in Todd Bowie’s visual communications classes have to feel somewhat amazed when their instructor starts telling stories about his past. When Bowie lists the people he’s worked with...

Tristan Wheeler at work on a student’s laptop.

WolfPack Techies can fix your computer

Eric Swanson, Staff Writer February 17, 2016

The WolfPack Techies are reimagining the way computer repair service is done. They can solve an assortment of computer problems, including virus removal, and even hardware installation. Starting out in...

Social media users and sports analysts display a double standard in their reactions to how two quarterbacks have behaved after Super Bowl losses.

Super Bowl role models held to a double standard

Patrick Kempfer, Opinion Editor February 17, 2016

Let’s talk about the public’s reaction to the way two men leave a Super Bowl. On the one side, you’ve got a pure bred southern boy, ripe with all the morals this side of the Mississippi, and on the...

Movie review: ‘Hail Caesar’

Elliott Puckette, Arts Editor February 17, 2016

The Coen Brothers are some of the most recognizable names in directing. Along with creators Wes Anderson and Quentin Tarantino, they are known for creating films with highly recognizable and unique styles...

Madison College women's basketball coach Jessica Pelzel speaks to her team during a time out at a recent home game.

WolfPack women’s basketball suffers tough losses

Clarion staff report February 17, 2016

Two late-season losses have likely derailed the Madison College women’s basketball team’s hopes of winning its first conference title since 2009-2010. Madison College avenged an earlier loss by...

Madison College West Campus Sign

West Campus plans

Kimberly Michal, Staff Writer February 3, 2016

Welcome to the new. Goodbye to the old. In June 2016, Madison College’s West Campus will be shut down. The building located at 302 S. Gammon Road is not actually owned by Madison College, rather the...

Hookup Culture Illustration

Hookup culture and P.C. sex

Patrick Kempfer, Opinion Editor February 3, 2016

We have a big problem in this country. Young people are not receiving adequate information that will give them the knowledge and the aptitude required of them to make confident, sound decisions that...

Stephen Thompson played Count Perris in last year’s production of “Romeo and Juliet.”

Stephen Thompson: Fullfilling many roles

Ana Bon, Artistic Director February 3, 2016

Stephen Thompson has many different titles – student, actor, ultra marathon runner, caregiver and friend – all because he believes in taking chances. Thompson, a Madison College student, shared...

Madison College women’s basketball player Megan Petty passes the ball around a Milwaukee Area Technical College defender during a recent home game.

Tied for conference lead

Bailey Ayres, Sports Editor February 3, 2016

As we enter the final month of the regular season, the Madison College women’s basketball team finds itself atop the NJCAA Division III rankings. A four-game winning streak has allowed the WolfPack...

Cristalyne Bell (center), sits with co-editor Norman Stockwell (right), and Robert W. McChesney, who wrote the foreward to “Rebel Reporting” during the book launch inside The Rainbow Bookstore Cooperative on Dec. 15 in Madison.

From student to ‘Rebel Reporter’

Josh Zytkiewicz, Managing Editor January 19, 2016

Cristalyne Bell was 23 when she started at Madison College and she wasn’t sure what she wanted to do. “I thought about taking a couple of classes to just see how it went, and I was really impressed...

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Do your job, vote!

Kimberly Michal, Staff Writer January 19, 2016

President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address is a song of hope, compassion, and a message to motivate our nation that has become so besides itself, so increasingly drowned in fear that two-thirds...

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