Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Have you ever walked into a bathroom where two or more stalls were occupied, but nobody seems to be doing anything? Actually, scratch that – they’re definitely doing something. They are going stall-to-stall in an unmastered battle of wills. Everyone knows it, but nobody wants to be the first to Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor I finally read “Gone Girl.” I feel like I emerged from some dark cave in the form of someone’s elderly uncle who just discovered kale chips or the word “bae.” While it took a movie adaptation to make the book surge in popularity, the book itself definitely lived up to all Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor You may not know me. You may not know anything about me. But you’re reading this column anyway, and at the end of it, you’ll know about two people who made me who I am. For me, right now, that is all that matters. My name is Allison Marie Borthwick. My Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor ‘Tis the season of reflection and resolution. It seems that the end of 2015 snuck up on all of us. Now we’re faced with the daunting task of assessing the good, bad and ugly of the past year and preparing for the imminent good, bad and ugly of the upcoming 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 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 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
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor There are very few things in this world that don’t discriminate. Everyone and everything seems to have their own opinions, judgments and preferences on skin color, age, lifestyles, etc. There is one thing, however, that absolutely does not discriminate. It doesn’t care if you’re black, white or both. It doesn’t Read More