What Kinds of Topics Does The Skidmore News Cover?

The Skidmore News covers campus governance, arts and entertainment, sports and sports culture, opinions, features, and broader current events relevant to the Skidmore community. Its homepage organizes content into News, Arts and Entertainment, Sports, Opinions, and Features, and the featured stories show that coverage mixes hard campus reporting with commentary on national media moments.

Campus Governance and Student Government

Student government is a recurring beat. The site has reported on SGA elections and the people running in them, including a Fall 2026 speech night where candidates for first-year president and senator seats made their cases to students.

It has also covered how SGA operates internally. One report explained that Skidmore's Student Government Association would, for the first time, pay financial compensation to some of its members — nine students in the highest-ranking and most time-consuming positions, each receiving $1,500 for the academic year.

If you want to follow decisions that affect student life, funding, or representation, this is the section to watch.

Arts and Entertainment Commentary

The Arts and Entertainment coverage extends beyond campus events into media criticism. A featured piece examined Sydney Sweeney's return to advertising for the online sports betting platform Novig, arguing that the ad's "Just Sports" tagline was overshadowed by how the ambassador was presented — posing with basketball hoops, tennis rackets, and hockey sticks while repeating the word "sports."

That story is a useful example of the section's approach: it takes a widely seen pop-culture or advertising moment and asks what it says about audience attention, marketing, and celebrity.

Sports and Sports Culture

Sports coverage is not limited to scores. The Novig story sits at the intersection of sports and culture, since the advertisement promoted a betting platform and prompted debate about how sports are marketed to viewers.

Expect a mix of athletic coverage and the cultural conversations surrounding sports — betting, fandom, and representation among them.

Opinions, Features, and Current Events

The Opinions and Features sections carry reflection and analysis that reaches past the campus. A May 2026 piece, "A Sign of Our Times," used the Artemis II mission — launched April 1, with the crew splashing down in the Pacific on April 10 after circling Earth, flying to the Moon, and returning — as a starting point for broader commentary.

These sections are where you'll find essays, student perspectives, and stories that connect Skidmore to larger national and global conversations.

How to Find a Specific Topic

1. Start at the homepage, where featured articles appear with dates, headlines, and author bylines.
2. Use the top navigation to jump to News, Arts and Entertainment, Sports, Opinions, or Features.
3. Open the Archive if you need older stories rather than the current featured set.
4. Check the About and Contact pages if you need to know who runs the publication or how to reach them.

A practical note: headlines on the homepage are paired with author names and publication dates, so you can judge how recent a story is before reading. If a topic you care about — SGA compensation, for instance — isn't on the front page, the Archive is the faster route than scrolling.

What This Means for Readers

The Skidmore News functions as a general-interest campus paper rather than a single-issue outlet. Its range runs from student government budgets to celebrity advertising to space missions, which means the best way to use it depends on your goal:

• Tracking campus decisions: follow News and SGA coverage.
• Following media and culture debate: check Arts and Entertainment and Opinions.
• Understanding sports beyond the scoreboard: read Sports alongside the cultural pieces.
• Browsing broadly: the homepage featured section gives a quick sample of all of the above.