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Words and images float in the air, music rings out, reaching the ears of all present. This is an open mic hosted by TruPoets, the poetry club at Truman State University, every semester. The last one was April 22. TruPoets tries to host at least two open mics per semester. Before each open mic, meetings are spent workshopping poems from members and offering critiques. Caitlin Hill, a freshman studio art and creative writing major, found much inspiration from going to TruPoets meetings.

Under the menacing glow of red stage lights, Morgan Youngstrom stood face to face with the fifth and final head of the fearsome dragon Tiamat, whom her character, Agnes Evans, had been hunting. As mist pooled at her feet, she swung her sword and landed the finishing blow, vanquishing the beast. Tiamat’s head toppled onto the stage, and the victorious Agnes sank to her knees. The win came at the cost of accepting the death of her sister, Tilly Evans, played by Aliza Carlson.

Long-time women’s head tennis coach and math professor, Coach Steven “Steve” Smith, is retiring at the end of the 2026 spring season. Smith has been coaching the tennis team for a total of 21 years. Smith started as a volunteer coach for 14 years, serving seven years as an assistant coach and the last seven years as the head coach. Smith said his time as a coach was spent making his athletes not only good tennis players, but good people.

For the past year, Barnett Hall has been undergoing renovations to build a new space for the Department of Public Safety which has raised concerns among their neighbors, the Truman Media Network. This construction included adding new doorways at either end of a hallway with keypads and renovated rooms tailored to DPS’s needs. Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Tim Walston said those doorways were added to limit general public access to DPS’s internal spaces.

What’s the worst thing you’ve ever done? More importantly, should you be forgiven for it? “The Drama,” an A24 film starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson as a lovestruck couple, will have you questioning this … and leave you without an answer. Directed by Kristoff Borgli, “The Drama” follows Emma (Zendaya) and Charlie (Pattinson) as they prepare for their upcoming wedding.

Two senior health science students are leading a new project to help students learn more about skin cancer and how to prevent it. Senior health science majors Sam Sanguinette and Jake Gutzman created Bulldogs Against Skin Cancer for their senior capstone class. The goal is to lower skin cancer risk by teaching students better habits. As part of the project, they made a survey to learn what students already know and what they do to protect their skin.

The Children’s Literature Festival was held on campus for local elementary students  and featured many children’s authors from across the country. The Children’s Literature Festival held the event March 27 in the SUB Georgian Rooms, to a large audience.The goal was to get the students connected with the text and excited about reading. Strong reading skills are fundamental to life skills at that age.

SAB brought in Sh*tty Princess, NYX and Jessica Wilde to give us another fabulous drag show to follow last year. However, from awkward DJing to false starts, this year fell flat compared to last year. I had the opportunity to stand right in front of the queens throughout the performance, and although it began with low momentum, it picked up and became a decent show in the end. The night started with Sh*tty Princess DJing several Taylor Swift remixes.

Freshman Nick Steurer won the starting second base job early in the year and is currently first in the GLVC in batting average, hitting .436 in 117 plate appearances, and is leading his team in hits with 51. Steurer said after the first day of practice, he was 100% confident he could compete and make contributions for the Bulldogs. “I wasn’t originally going to play, and then this was kind of just the last offer I had,” Steurer said. “I knew [I could compete] as soon as I practiced day one.

Senior Jessie Phillips lip syncs while Sigma Phi Epsilon and Delta Zeta put on the first performance of the Olympic-themed show on April 1. Lip Sync was hosted by Fraternity and Sorority Life for Greek Week in the Baldwin Hall Auditorium. Members of Delta Chi dip members of Sigma Sigma Sigma. Delta Chi won Lip Sync overall. Freshman Jayden Nadeau and junior Mya Hall celebrate after defeating members of Pikapp in a fake game of basketball. Pikapp and Sigma Kappa’s performance was based on Space Jam.