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The Beat Goes On: 150 years of The Campus

The Campus

The Campus is the independent, student-run newspaper of Allegheny College, a small liberal arts college in Meadville, Pennsylvania. It has been publishing continuously since 1876, making it one of the longest-running college papers in the country. This is the story of how it got there, and who keeps it going. The Beat Goes On traces...

The Campus Alumni Panel

The Campus

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150th Anniversary Reunion Weekend Edition

The Campus

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Senior Reflection

The Campus

My first class at Allegheny was Journalism 100, a class that helped me learn the ropes of journalism and started me down a three-year-career with The Campus. I remember sitting in a contributing writer’s meeting when, then-Editor-in-Chief Sami Mirza, ’24, asked if I wanted to write anything for the paper. I had taken a few...

Senior Reflection

The Campus

The Campus is defined by the people who love it, who care for it day-in and day-out and who carry on its legacy by donating hours upon hours of their time each week. Not because they’re paid, but because this is how they serve their community. The Campus might seem like it is a given...

Senior Reflection

The Campus

I’m writing this from the newsroom on the last Wednesday evening I’ll ever spend arranging an edition of The Campus on the page, and, uh, this story is way past the Monday evening deadline I should have been able to hit. In a different universe, I probably wrote a heartfelt and polished senior sendoff in...

Senior Reflection

The Campus

I am absolutely terrible at this kind of writing. Writing this goodbye, I keep trying to imagine myself as a TV show character writing their memoir during the series finale while flashbacking to scenes we’ve all seen before. Despite all my effort, that type of melancholy introspection isn’t within the purview of my personality. But...

Senior Reflection

The Campus

Dear Beloved Allegheny Community, Four years ago, I stepped foot on this campus as a doe-eyed freshman with no idea what I was doing. I still remember struggling with courses, making friends, missing my home and being completely uncertain about everything. I entrusted these feelings to my first academic advisor. She was one of the...

04/24/26 Paper

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Ben Stavnezer and Aubryanna Snyder to serve as next Campus editors-in-chief

The Campus

Ben Stavnezer, ’27, and Aubryanna Snyder, ’27, were elected to serve as the next co-editors-in-chief of The Campus during the 2026-27 academic year. Stavnezer and Snyder bring to The Campus a combined ten years of newspaper experience. Stavnezer joined staff as a layout editor in spring 2024. Since then, he has contributed to The Campus...

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