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Survivor: Dead Week edition

Samantha Rudelich December 2, 2015

Grab your coffee and comfiest clothes because the worst week of the semester is upon us. Dead Week, sandwiched between Thanksgiving break, which only facilitates laziness and over-indulgent eating, and...

Choose empathy

Madelyn Schorr December 1, 2015

Empathy is the most important emotion we have. Although it didn't get a character in Pixar's Inside Out, empathy is a worthy emotion that we should express more. Over the past few weeks I've seen people...

Don't let technology control your life

Will Sorrell December 1, 2015

As you read this, you probably don't even consciously realize that you are looking at a screen. Chances are it's not your first time today, nor will it be your last. Smart phones, laptops and tablets are...

Trans visibility and representation is the next step in trans remembrance

Trans visibility and representation is the next step in trans remembrance

Lindsay Macher November 30, 2015

Friday was Transgender Day of Remembrance, a day honoring victims of transphobic violence. In 2015, there have been at least 21 murders of trans people in the United States, including that of Mercedes...

We stand with survivors

CW Guest Columnists November 30, 2015

Assume you are a survivor of sexual assault. You find your way to a counseling or judicial center on your college campus only to find your college can do little to help you before you file a police report...

A Southern Thanksgiving

Landon Nichols November 24, 2015

The events of late and the feelings of the season have culminated in my call for Thanksgiving. A plea, really. A plea that we all take a moment and remind ourselves of the privilege we are afforded to...

The need for decorum in meaningful discourse

Ruth Bishop November 24, 2015

“And that makes you despicable.”These five words at the end of a comment on one of my previous columns, “Feminism includes pro-life beliefs” struck a chord with me -- not really because I was...

The invisible speak

Almosa Pirela-Jones November 23, 2015

Clad in all black, I approached a similarly dressed assembly of students at Malone-Hood Plaza. There were plenty of familiar faces in the crowd – campus leaders that I had become acquainted with in...

Opposing Views: Journalism/Telecommunications and Film merger

Leigh Terry November 23, 2015

The College of Communications and Information Sciences has recently announced the merger of two of its majors: journalism and telecommunication and film. This announcement has evoked a strong reaction...

Journalism and TCF will mutually benefit from merger

Peyton Shepard November 23, 2015

Journalism is dead.As a newly indoctrinated journalism student, I can firmly say this statement is what pushed me away for five semesters from what I eventually (hesitantly) decided was my calling. And...

Hope for justice

Will Sorrell, Will Leathers November 23, 2015

In an atmosphere where we can scarcely breathe without seeing flashing headlines of atrocities, witnessing outcries of oppression and smelling rotting systems of discrimination, we find within ourselves...

Why merging telecommunications and journalism is a bad proposition

Chase Bodiford November 23, 2015

This is how most college students select their major: New students arrive at a university excited by the expanded roster of subjects, which had been inaccessible to them during high school. In many cases,...