Powered by AI: The Future of Sports is Already Here

On a chilly Tuesday afternoon inside a college gym, a basketball player scrolls through practice clips—not on a coach’s laptop, but on an app powered by artificial intelligence. Within seconds, it highlights missed defensive rotations and suggests positioning adjustments. What once took hours of ...

Fire Week in Scotland: Rain, Conga Lines and Cadbury Eggs

 I arrived in Scotland expecting whimsical castles, charming villages, and breathtaking scenery. Instead, I got pulled into a conga line, developed a deep love for Cadbury eggs, dunked my head in a river, and got rained on daily—which, as it turns out, is part of the full experience.  Our ...

The Ballad of Prof. Thomas T. Taylor

As a young boy growing up in North Carolina, Thomas Taylor read the World Book Encyclopedia, tracing over the signatures of the presidents and studying newspaper articles such as the devastating Burning of Columbia in 1865. He knew that history would be his passion well into adulthood. Now a history ...

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Ed.

College is a place where you learn about your desired career path and get a degree in a major that is connected to that career. Millions of people in the United States alone are currently pursuing a college degree, with millions more that have a degree in some fashion. Students can often ...

Creativity in Culmination: Senior Art Exhibit & Reception

On Saturday, April 11, the Wittenberg Art Department hosted its senior art exhibit reception in the Ann Miller and Thompson Galleries to great public approval, with over 50 attendees at the gathering. The exhibition “Prologue to Somewhere”  featured the works of nine art seniors with a variety ...

Pickleball: Between Classes and Courts

The gym hums long before the matches begin. Fluorescent lights buzz overhead, reflecting off polished hardwood courts where thin white lines carve out the geometry of competition. The sharp pop-pop of plastic balls meeting graphite paddles echoes like a metronome, steady and familiar. Along the sidelines, ...

Americus: Diamond In The Rough

Every year thousands of college students fan out across the United States and other parts of the world, hoping to experience other cultures during their time away for Spring Break. In the case of Wittenberg University, students have the opportunity to travel to Scotland, Costa Rica, Germany, and… ...

Elizabeth Brady: A Story of Overcoming Grief

When two graduate students met at the Wheaton College radio station, they didn’t know their lives would be intertwined long after. Now, over three decades later, with the smell of her freshly brewed coffee wafting through the air, Elizabeth Walma Brady recalls her life: the good, the bad, and the ...

Turn Off the Dark: Portrait of a Young Freelance Artist

3 a.m. in Smyrna, Tennessee. It’s raining, and Twenty One Pilots is playing quietly. Dalyn Bentley is hunched over his drawing tablet, undoing and redrawing a line for the umpteenth time while his mom, stepdad, and older sister sleep. He rolls his stylus restlessly between his fingers. The heavy outline ...

Wittenberg is now "Accredited on Probation"

The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) has changed Wittenberg University's status from "Accredited" to "Accredited on Probation." According to the HLC, "Probation is a public sanction that allows the institution a period of time to resolve the areas of concern. The initial period for Probation is up to ...

Witt Welcomes New Writing Center Director

As Wittenberg kicks off its fall semester, acclaimed poet Marjory Wentworth makes her debut as the new Director of the Writing Center and Oral Communication Center (OCC), as well as an adjunct professor in the English department. Experience Wentworth’s experience in education is extensive; she previously ...

For the Love of the Poem: John Poch Reading

John Poch hosted a live reading of his poetry on April 8 in Ness Auditorium. This reading was the last event of the Wittenberg English Department's "Reading Series 2026." Poch is an English and Creative Writing professor at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana. He has published eight poetry collections ...

The Ups and Downs of Performative Luxury

The Sunseeker Resort Florida Gulf Coast, Curio Collection by Hilton (yes, that is its full name) of Port Charlotte is perched right on the waterfront. It’s an extraordinary structure, tall and white and gleaming, practically on top of Charlotte Harbor. The land used to be unremarkable here, a little ...

Distractions We Fully Support

"My Turn: The Rise of Lil Baby and the Soundtrack of Ambition"

In the music world today, lots of artists only get famous for one song. But Lil Baby was not like that. When he dropped his album “My Turn," he showed everybody he was authentic. The album came out in early 2020, right around the time Covid-19 made an appearance, but it still blew up everywhere.  Even ...

International Student Week: A Tale of Two Students

Applying and getting accepted to a college is an endeavor all college students experience, but the added stresses of moving across the globe and applying for a student visa is a struggle only international students know. There are financial, institutional, and physical barriers that only these students ...

Pam Evans Smith Arena

 The gym was quiet that night — the kind of silence that carries memory. The banners on the walls shimmered faintly in the hum of overhead lights, each one telling a story of victory, of discipline, of love for the game. At center court, the red “W” glowed beneath the polished floorboards, ...

Spotlights, On!: Abby Lanhart in “Ride the Cyclone”

Wittenberg’s fall theater performance, “Ride the Cyclone,” has already sold out, and senior Theater Performance and Psychology double-major Abby Lanhart can’t wait to see the full production come to fruition—especially as one of the stars! “Ride the Cyclone” is a dark comedy about six ...

Luke Dennis and Changes Happening at WYSO

WYSO Recently It may seem unwise to jump into things with both feet first, to cross the street without looking in either direction, but when Witt alum Luke Dennis '00 decides to do something, he appears to be a force of undeterred passion and focus.  Dennis, the general manager for WYSO Public ...

Inauguration of Witt's 16th President

On October 17th, 2025, Christian M. M. Brady was officially inaugurated as the 16th president of Wittenberg University. The ceremony began with a prayer led by Rev. Cathy Schibler-Keegan and a welcome speech by William "Bill" Edwards, the chair for Wittenberg's Board of Directors.  Edwards ...