News

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    By Chloe Ogier The Scene staff A Forest Park student will serve as the new international president of Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society for 2025-26. Lulu McGowan, 20, was elected by PTK members at a [...]
  • Where has DEI gone?

    April 25, 2025

    Diversity, equity and inclusion programs are on the chopping block at universities and colleges across the country due to pressure by President Donald Trump and other Republican leaders. St. Louis Community College is no exception. […]

  • Forest Park has big blue recycling bins all over campus so people can dispose of their bottles, cans and paper in an environmentally friendly way. But it’s an illusion. […]

  • The student newspaper at St. Louis Community College at Forest Park made history on April 12 at the Missouri College Media Convention. The Scene won the Best in State award in the Missouri College Media [...]
  • Forest Park students, faculty and staff had been performing plays in the campus theater for decades until productions were paused more than a year ago. […]

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    Keith Hulsey is retiring from Forest Park, so international students are losing a key mentor and advocate. […]

Features

Sports

  • Central Missouri State defeated the STLCC Archers 76-60 in the NJCAA Region 16 tournament. […]

  • Want to get some exercise after a slow day of classes? Four students have come together to form a new club called Forest Park Intramural Sports. They’re inviting others to join. […]

  • Archers lose in nationals

    November 17, 2023

    No. 7-seeded St. Louis Community College’s hope of advancing to the Final Four of the NCJAA Division II men’s soccer tournament in Arizona came down to a penalty kick in overtime Nov. 14 against No. 2 seed Phoenix College. […]

  • The bench of the STLCC men’s basketball team in the Forest Park gym, where social-distance seating is practiced.

    The pandemic not only has affected Forest Park’s faculty, staff and the general student population but also several STLCC’s athletic teams in the 2020-21 season. […]

  • Members of the STLCC softball team celebrate the District P championship after defeating Lewis and Clark two games to none. The victory earned the Lady Archers a berth in the NJCAA national tournament. (Provided photo)

    A wildly successful softball season for the Lady Archers softball team ended abruptly at the NCJAA Division II national championships in May in Clinton, Miss. After compiling a 40-4 record and No. 6 ranking nationally, the team lost both its qualifying games. […]

  • STLCC’s Miranda Hudson eyes a pitch in the Region 16 championship game against Mineral Area College at Meramec. Chloe Johnson takes her batting stance while on deck. Coach Kristi Swiderski, at right in the dugout, observes the action. (Photo by Timothy Bold)

    The STLCC women’s softball team is on fire, winning its first Division II Region 16 tournament in dominant fashion against the Mineral Area College Cardinals while gearing up for a trip to the district tournament. […]

Videos

  • Police press conference

    September 25, 2024

    Major Janice Bockstuck, of St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, speaks at a news conference on Wednesday, Sept. 25, after police shot and killed a man in an office building on Oakland Avenue, half a block from the Forest Park campus. […]

Opinion

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    The second phase of Bi-State Development’s $52 million Secure Platform Plan for MetroLink is nearing completion. The project was initiated to bolster security, while also improving fare collection for the train. As a Metrolink rider, [...]
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    Some Forest Park students think library closes too early, and I agree. There is a reason that other academic libraries are open until midnight, and many of them used to be open 24/7 on weekdays and Sundays prior COVID-19 pandemic. […]

Cartoons

Poetry

  • … But Fear Itself

    December 13, 2024

    Our house is lookin’ like the Colosseum today, Except the fights aren’t half as fair as history books convey. […]