Child maltreatment is an issue in America and it always has been, but some people don’t realize just how close to home this issue is. Child ab…

On the modern campus, “civil discourse” is a term rarely heard outside of an analysis of John Locke and even more so, it is rarely practiced, …

Is the internet anti-conservative? The claim that search engines and social media sites have a purposeful liberal bias has been passed around …

Technology has created a new way for people to communicate with anyone they want in a matter of seconds. It has given people the opportunity t…

Procrastinating has become a part of the cliche college kid’s lifestyle. Every college student has spent their time watching “Friends” on Netf…

      As students at EKU, I think we’ve all felt the loss of one of our staple dining facilities on campus, Einstein Bros Bagels. Einstein’s w…

President Trump chose to end 2018 with one of the dumbest political moves in American history. In an effort to fulfill his signature campaign …

Let me start this out by coming clean; I am in a relationship. I am not single, nor have I been single for a very long time. However, I don’t …

Netflix is bombarding us with shows and documentaries about serial killers, knowing that almost every one of their viewers will latch on and b…

United we stand.

What a disappointment Super Bowl 53 was. I started this night full of excitement for the Patriots-Rams rematch from Super Bowl 36 and ended th…

Gun control is quite possibly the most polarizing, vitriolic topic of discussion in modern American history. The outbreak of shootings in grad…

This has been a weird year. I know that living in a post-Trump world, weird is the standard description for things. But 2018 has been weird in…

In a world full of judgement and hatred, I often found myself in a position of feeling secluded by everyone. For the last fifteen to twenty ye…

If memory serves, Thanksgiving used to feel a lot different. Dubious history aside, it was a holiday untainted by the commercialism seen in Ch…

Hal Rogers is a bad congressman. Donald Trump is a worse president. Me voting makes them mad. That’s the short answer to the question posed in…

I am disappointed in my university for allowing a “protected class” of students, faculty, and staff to feel as though their safety on campus i…

As anyone who has lived in Kentucky at all during the past year knows, election time is fast approaching, although, oddly enough, it takes a l…

Kentucky’s midterm elections are coming up on Nov. 6. Despite the majority of EKU students being of voting age, classes are still in session o…

Last week, the Western Kentucky University Senate approved a proposal to severely cut the number of classes that begin earlier than 9 a.m. Mor…

I was born and raised in church and hardly a Sunday went by that my family and I weren’t in attendance. I was baptized by my own choice when I…

The Steak n’ Shake in lower Powell has been hyped to hell and back since I started taking classes on the Richmond campus in January. After a f…

It pisses me off that I have to write about this again, but last Thursday was a watershed moment for this country. I didn’t watch Brett Kavana…

On Sept. 20, Governor Matt Bevin held a community forum at Richmond City Hall; it was a disaster and a purposeful waste of everyone’s time.Bev…

The legalization of medical marijuana has been the subject of heavy debate in Kentucky legislature since the election of Matt Bevin in 2015. G…

Typically, when a Supreme Court Justice dies, the sitting president gets to pick his or her replacement. While a vote is held in the Senate to…

I’m going to be up front and say that I’ve never been a big fan of sports. Lord knows, I’ve tried to be though. I’ve sat through games of all …

Let me just start out by saying that I am a 20-year-old female, adopted from Guangdong Province, China. What you’ll be reading is based off of…

On Sept. 7, rapper Mac Miller was found dead of an apparent overdose in his Los Angeles home. Since the news broke, the media has been buzzing…

As many might remember, Louis C.K. stepped out of the public eye last year after multiple women spoke out about the comedian’s history of sexu…

 Last week two of President Trump’s biggest allies were found guilty of criminal activity. 

Over the last few days I can’t say how many people I’ve had to give directions to. They’ve all got a similar look about them; they’re panting …

College is tough enough learning to live on your own and motivate yourself to go to class. But, even harder than that, is living with someone …

The Kentucky legislature — and Gov. Matt Bevin — messed with the wrong people.

As public mass shootings become more prevalent in the United States, the current debate has been cast in the direction of our schools and univ…