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All content by Parker Grogan
Opinion: Leadership is about relationships

Opinion: Leadership is about relationships

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • September 23, 2019
How you treat others determines your success, so all of the time you spend in college building relationships is good practice for your future as a leader in whatever field you choose to go into.
Opinion: Community, not income determines happiness

Opinion: Community, not income determines happiness

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • August 26, 2019
According to every statistic in the book, it is probably not where any students fresh out of college would choose to live, but after getting past what the city looked like on paper, I got to see how incredible Marion really is.  
Online classes create problems for students

Online classes create problems for students

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • April 8, 2019
Online courses are a great way to cut costs and expand learning opportunities for students who require more flexibility in their schedules.
Hannah B. will be the best Bachelorette

Hannah B. will be the best Bachelorette

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • March 25, 2019
The upcoming season of “The Bachelorette” will feature Hannah Brown, a Southern girl from right here in Tuscaloosa.
Public schools should continue to fund the arts

Public schools should continue to fund the arts

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • March 21, 2019
In the past, several presidents have attempted and sometimes succeeded in cutting government funding for arts programs in public schools.
Sad songs help affirm, validate our emotions

Sad songs help affirm, validate our emotions

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • February 25, 2019
John Keats’ poem “Ode on Melancholy” asserts that experiencing the feeling of sadness is necessary in a person’s life in order for that person to understand the full extent of happiness.
Snapchat is ruining relationships

Snapchat is ruining relationships

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • February 11, 2019
Snapchat was released in September 2011 and has been growing in popularity ever since. According to research done by Cornell University, Snapchat offers unique qualities that Facebook and Instagram cannot contend with.
Effective leaders more valuable than moral ones

Effective leaders more valuable than moral ones

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • February 4, 2019
Without taking a personal view on Trump, in the words of the 19th-century writer, historian and politician Lord John Dalberg-Acton, “Great men are almost always bad men.”
OPPOSING VIEWS: College athletes deserve to be compensated

OPPOSING VIEWS: College athletes deserve to be compensated

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • January 24, 2019
Business Insider notes that colleges benefit greatly from sports, making, in some cases, up to $190 million annually. But, the athletes who create the industry do not receive justifiable benefits.
Keep making healthy New Year’s resolutions

Keep making healthy New Year’s resolutions

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • January 10, 2019
 As we ring in the new year, people are making commitments to become better, healthier or happier versions of themselves, but do these resolves impact people’s upcoming year at all?
Women are neglected in film industry

Women are neglected in film industry

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • November 29, 2018
Recently in my mass communication class, my teacher informed us of the controversy concerning the underrepresentation of minority groups in film.
Affirmative action is important for opportunity equality

Affirmative action is important for opportunity equality

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • November 16, 2018
According to an article in The Washington Post, “Affirmative action is not about discrimination. It is allowing colleges and universities to gauge potential when circumstances haven’t allowed a young person to reach their potential yet.”
We need education reform

We need education reform

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • October 30, 2018
many public schools are underperforming and, therefore, do not give kids the opportunity to further their education past elementary and/or middle school.
Top students should choose state schools over the Ivy League

Top students should choose state schools over the Ivy League

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • October 11, 2018
When asked about the benefits of an ivy league education, most people explain the high test score averages, the high employment rate and the overall benefit of being surrounded by people who will push you to be smarter or better.
America is the land of the “free-ish”

America is the land of the “free-ish”

Parker Grogan, Staff Columnist • September 27, 2018
In a 2018 Reporters Without Borders study measuring the World Press Freedom Index, the United States of America was ranked 45th.
Spirituality cannot adequately replace religion in today’s world

Spirituality cannot adequately replace religion in today’s world

Parker Grogan, Contributing Writer • September 10, 2018
According to the Pew Research Center, a quarter of Americans now consider themselves spiritual but not religious. Many people are beginning to wonder if spirituality can truly replace the phenomenon of religion in the United States, and if that is the case, is the shift from focusing on doing good in order to reach Heaven to focusing on being compassionate and caring for the sake of it necessarily a bad thing?