Column by Hallie Beard, Junior from Louisville, Ky. In “Oration on the Dignity of Man,” (c. 1486) Italian philosopher Pico della Mirandola makes an argument for man being the most wonderful creation, ultimately because of our ability to make choices. He states, “Considering that we are born with this condition, that is, that we can become whatever we Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Thanksgiving is coming up. You know, that one holiday the world just forgot about this year. The small, apparently insignificant day of the year between Halloween and Christmas. What happened to being thankful for Thanksgiving? At least acknowledge that it exists before turning everything red, green and peppermint-flavored, people. Anyway, as Read More
Column by Robert Valentine, Senior lecturer of advertising This is the season of Thanksgiving. I had intended to visit the library to do a great deal of research so that we could all appreciate this holiday, but I ran out of time. You know how it is. In any event, I am confident that my memory, bolstered by Read More
Column by Taylor Grace Suiter, Senior from Brentwood, Tennessee Aziz Ansari’s “Master of None” premiered on Netflix Nov. 6th, so naturally I spent my weekend watching and live tweeting it. I loved it and I still can’t stop talking about it. Ansari isn’t just an observational comedian, he’s plain observant, and it shows in the series’ ability to Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor It was a brisk day in April. Not a high school senior and not yet a college freshmen, 18-year-old Allison Borthwick scampered into a computer lab in the Arthur J. Bauernfeind College of Business to register for her very first semester of classes at Murray State. It was Summer Orientation Read More
Column by John Muenzberg, Lecturer of philosophy This semester I have been teaching Murray State students in Regensburg, Germany. As part of the program, we visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial. Dachau was used to imprison political, social and ethic enemies of the Nazi government. Like many such camps, the prisoners were slaves, forced to work to Read More
Column by Hallie Beard, Junior from Louisville, Ky. Before you cringe, know this is not a column about greasy-haired John Mayer’s song “Say,” in which he sings the line “say what you need to say” more than 30 times in mere minutes. (Sorry, John Mayer fans – he’s just not my cup of tea.) This is about speech, Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Fall is the most confusing season. It’s like a temperamental youth struggling through adolescence – it never knows what it wants, is hot one second and cold the next, leaves things all over the floor (pun intended) and makes people emotional. There’s so much hype and excitement building up to it. Read More