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Remembering Kaitlyn: Friends, family mourn student

Dionte Berry Editor-in-Chief dberry11@murraystate.edu The life and memory of student Kaitlyn Shoulders was honored with a candlelight vigil on Thursday, March 31. Shoulders, a native of Madisonville, Kentucky, was a sophomore public relations student and member of Murray State’s Alpha Delta Pi sorority chapter. Shoulders died on March 19, and President Bob Jackson notified the Read More

Our View: Senate GOP interrogates SCOTUS nominee

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

PREVIEW: Murray State takes on March Madness

Jakob Milani Sports Editor jmilani@murraystate.edu With the OVC Championship win, Murray State punched their ticket to the NCAA tournament, better known as “March Madness.” On Selection Sunday, the Racers were seeded as the seven-seed in the East Region, with teams like the one-seed Baylor and the two-seed Kentucky as potential opponents down the line.  First, Read More

Cinema International unveils spring showings

Ava Chuppe Staff Writer achuppe@murraystate.edu The spring film lineup for Cinema International is underway and will continue until April 23. So far this semester, the program has shown “The Green Knight,” “Koshien: Japan’s Field of Dreams,” “Harriet” and “Vatel.” Therese St. Paul, associate professor of French, has been the Cinema International director for six years, Read More

Our View: Legislators create laws without public interest

Citizens expect elected officials, as public servants, to work toward making laws that benefit the people, but it seems as though legislators are not serving those who elected them. In the 2021 Kentucky General Assembly Regular Session, Sens. Danny Carroll (R-Benton) and Michael Nemes (R-Shepherdsville) introduced an anti-rioting bill in the aftermath of the protests Read More

Student art project commemorates Black History Month

Raleigh Hightower Lifestyle Editor rhightower@murraystate.edu A periodic table is on display outside the Murray State History Department. But it doesn’t display elements. Rather, it displays history:  this periodic table recognizes several categories of influential African-Americans, outside of the famous civil rights era activists. The project, on display outside the history department offices in Faculty Hall Read More

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