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Hello, Fall

Hello, Fall

Madison Springmyer, Staff Writer October 24, 2025

Autumn is like the beginning of the end.  It’s the beginning of the cold air that makes your nose run,  But it’s the end of the heat from the months of the summer sun.  It’s the beginning of...

Streaming Service or Stealing Service

Streaming Service or Stealing Service

Once a relatively inexpensive alternative to cable, streaming platforms have now become something expensive and frustratingly difficult to organize.
Michael Burt, Opinion Editor October 17, 2025

The grandfather of all streaming platforms, Netflix, started as a mail- in DVD service for movies and shows. However, the change in Netflix that altered media consumption forever was the switch from...

A Sad Beige Blunder

A Sad Beige Blunder

The popularization of the "beige mom" trend provides parents the opportunity to create an aesthetically pleasing home at the cost of a fundamental tool for child development: color.
Joselyn Duff, Editor-in-Chief October 10, 2025

A nursery washed in beige may look aesthetic on Instagram: linen curtains, muted furniture, and not a plastic rainbow in sight. To the social media user, it is perfect: calm, serene, and camera-ready. But...

No One Spared

No One Spared

Gun violence in America has become a prevalent and out-of-control issue throughout the country.
Julia Viviano, Culture Editor September 23, 2025

In light of the recent assassination of conservative activist Charles (Charlie) Kirk, who was fatally shot and killed while speaking at Utah Valley University, the topic of gun violence has once again...

Silencing Support

Silencing Support

Ohio’s House Bill 8, while maintaining parental rights, jeopardizes the safety and well-being of LGBTQ+ students.
Grace Callahan, Editor in Chief May 17, 2025

On Jan. 9, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed into law House Bill 8, also known as the “Parents’ Bill of Rights.” The bill becomes effective on April 9. The basics are that it requires schools to allow...

People or Puppets?

People or Puppets?

Social media has been utilized to manipulate audiences and their opinions without proper education behind the topics due to fake news.
Elizabeth Vernon, Staff Writer May 17, 2025

Puppets are models of people or animals that can be moved and manipulated by strings, wands, or simply one’s hand. Dated back to the 5th century B.C., puppets were essential to Ancient Greek theater....

“I, too, am America”

“I, too, am America”

Overrepresentation in America has started to acclimate itself toward social norms in American society.
Caden Powels, Staff Writer May 16, 2025

According to the website article “Fiveable”, overrepresentation is a word that pertains to the phenomenon where individuals from minority groups are disproportionately represented in certain areas,...

Homeless by Design

Homeless by Design

The policies of the Reagan administration in the 1980s played a major role in shaping housing issues that still impact homelessness today.
Joselyn Duff, Opinion Editor May 16, 2025

The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s 2022 annual homeless assessment reported that 582,462 people in America were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January...

Assimilating to America

Assimilating to America

Immigration in the U.S. has been beneficial for both the people in this country and those coming to it.
Sydney Alderman, Business Manager May 16, 2025

The United States of America is widely known as a “melting pot” country. The metaphor of a “melting pot” describes countries or societies that consist of many different cultures and people coming...

Trumps effects on student loans

Trumps effects on student loans

With new actions by the president, student loans are evolving and changing.
Mia Huelskamp, Opinion Editor May 16, 2025

With millions of young adults graduating this year, and the majority heading off to college, one of the main concerns that interrupts all the excitement is money. Incoming college students need at least...

Love For Sale

Love For Sale

The monetization of the holiday originally about love has caused it to change form. Valentine’s Day now is solely about generic cards, flowers, and chocolates.
Annabelle McCarty, Culture Associate Editor May 16, 2025

When thinking of Valentine’s Day, what comes to mind? Flowers? Heart-shaped boxes of chocolates? Balloons and teddy bears? Expensive jewelry? At some point, society forgot that Valentine’s Day is not...

Banning for the Buzz

Banning for the Buzz

The temporary TikTok ban leading to an anticlimactic blackout issued in the United States was a propagandist Public Relations stunt to raise President Donald Trump’s approval ratings.
Sydney Alderman, Business Manager May 8, 2025

On Jan. 19, 2025, around 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, TikTok was permanently banned in the United States... for roughly sixteen hours.  If someone opened up TikTok during the short ban, a box would...

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