The Sterling College Forensics and Debate team not only competed at the recent Pi Kappa Delta National Tournament and Convention held in Phoenix, Ariz., but was also recognized as being one of few colleges to have had an active team which has competed in the National PKD Tournament for over 100 years. 

March is Women’s History Month and Sterling College Concert Choir will be celebrating with their concert “Music, She Wrote” which is slated for this Sunday, March 24, at 7 p.m. at the United Presbyterian Church in Sterling. Besides Concert Choir, the program will feature select ensemble Highland Singers as well as SC Lasses (women’s choir) and SC Lads (men’s choir). 

Over 250 high school students attended the 35th annual Sterling College Theatre Workshop recently. The event included two workshop sessions and a special matinee performance of the play Baskerville. Students from 18 schools from Lawrence to Liberal attended.

“You are never going to do anything interesting if you're always trying to make sense.” That quote sounds like a mantra, life’s philosophy, or admonition – maybe all in one. It is also the title of the latest art exhibit at the Sterling College Art Gallery. An exhibit of Polaroid photographs by artist Caitlyn Frazer of Hays will be on display now through April 19. 

The Sterling College Debate/Forensics Team traveled to Canyon, Texas,  earlier in February to compete in the Sweetheart Swing Debate/Forensics Tournament hosted by West Texas A&M University. Four Sterling competitive speakers competed in the tournament and the team collectively placed second overall. 

The Sterling College band program will be well represented this week when the Kansas Intercollegiate Band performs at the Kansas Music Educators Association conference at Century II in Wichita this Friday, February 23, at 2:45 p.m. 

A total of nine players from the Sterling College Concert Band were chosen after going through the audition process to join the 65-member intercollegiate band. The Kansas Intercollegiate Band concert is chosen and performs every other year at the annual KMEA conference in Wichita. The band alternates with the Kansas Intercollegiate Orchestra. 

What do you get when you mix Sherlock Holmes with over 40 broad, outlandish comic characters -playwright Ken Ludwig’s unique comedy mystery hybrid Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery. The show will be presented by Sterling College Theatre on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday February 29, March 1 and 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Culbertson Auditorium on the Sterling College campus.