As Americans, we expect leaders to be put in positions of power that will benefit us to the fullest extent. Supreme Court Justices are no exception. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was introduced in late February 2022 and sat through a series of confirmation hearings to determine her competency as a potential Justice. Read More
What do AIDS, ebola and the novel coronavirus all have in common? All have been accompanied by some sort of prejudice toward a group of people. For AIDS, it was the LGBTQ+ community. For ebola, it was black people and people from Africa. And now, for the coronavirus, it’s Chinese people. The novel coronavirus is Read More
Megan Reynolds Opinion Editor mreynolds12@murraystate.edu Jordan Peele, comedy writer turned to horror, released his latest film on March 22, “Us.” In February 2017, Peele released his first dabbling in the horror genre, “Get Out.” This film quickly set high standards for the new writer, producer and director. It also showed moviegoers everywhere that Peele’s films Read More
Racism on college campuses is still an issue in 2018 and there is no excuse. At California Polytechnic State University, a Lambda Chi Alpha member showed up to a party in April of this year in blackface. Several other members of the same fraternity dressed in stereotypically “gangster” clothing, according to The Washington Post. In Read More
Column by Hallie Beard, Junior from Louisville, Ky. If you’re like me and didn’t watch the Super Bowl – not even for the commercials – you probably still heard about Beyoncé’s halftime performance. If not, hopefully you saw her surprise new music video, “Formation.” As per usual, the video and performance garnered two kinds of responses: the “Slay, Read More
Story by Tierra Reese, Staff writer The message Martin Luther King III delivered Monday at Lovett Auditorium was one of caring for others and devoting oneself to bettering humanity, whether it was protecting education funding or eradicating racism and poverty. King, the 12th speaker in Murray State’s Presidential Lecture series, also challenged the audience to improve Read More
Story by Abby Siegel, Contributing writer Lunch at the Thoroughbred Room on campus around noon provides an image of the student body at Murray State. Clusters of students gather, holding tiny slips of paper waiting for their numbers to be called and their hamburgers to be ready. Others are crowding around a long table, already munching Read More
I have been in a fraternity for the better part of four years. I pledged the first semester of my freshman year and I’ve never been embarrassed to wear my letters. In the past, I’d been upset about how fraternities were portrayed by the media. They never seem to reflect on Read More