Column by Connor Jaschen, Features Editor In my hometown, there were several rock quarries. If you’ve been to one, you know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t been to one, just imagine a perfect circle of the bluest water imaginable, surrounded on all sides by sheer cliff faces, sometimes reaching up to 70 feet high depending Read More
Column by Gisselle Hernandez, Assistant Features Editor “I didn’t want to be rude.” “I was just trying to be nice.” “I didn’t know how to say no.” We all have heard of the term “the friendzone”: the dreaded hellhole a guy or girl finds him or herself in when their affection toward a person is unreciprocated. Read More
Column by Connor Jaschen, Features Editor The prettiest view in my hometown was from our own private mountain. OK, so it wasn’t a mountain per se; it was actually an abandoned building, one part of a set of factories only ever used for storage on rare occasion, but otherwise completely forgotten. During the day, workers at the Read More
Column by Gisselle Hernandez, Assistant Features Editor In honor of the Career Fair that took place on Wednesday, I’d like to talk about the dreaded six-worded question all seniors cower at that makes their eyes widen in fear: “What are you doing after graduation?” If you want to see a college student go 100 to 0 Read More
Story by Connor Jaschen, Features Editor I grew up in a medium-sized town: just big enough to have a whole bunch of snot-nosed kids and just small enough for none of said brats to have something to do. Thus, we tended to make our own fun one way or another. Now I was probably the one Read More
Column by Gisselle Hernandez, Assistant Features Editor In this generation, we are known as digital natives – a term coined by education consultant Marc Prensky to describe those who are born into the technological world and are native speakers of the digital language involving computers and social media. We get a bad rap for having our noses buried Read More
Column by Connor Jaschen, Features Editor Growing up in the Bible Belt, you see a lot about religion and most of it is pretty singular in regards to denominations. So, while I am not particularly religious, the ideas of some higher power have been ever-present in my life, from what I’m interested in to what I dedicate Read More
Column by Gisselle Hernandez, Assistant Features Editor I hate to be playing this card here, but as an international student enrolled at a university in the South, I’ve seen my fair share of, let’s call it ignorance. 8 Now don’t get me wrong; Murray State has a vast diversity of students and we are welcomed warmly Read More