Column by Robert Valentine, Senior lecturer of advertising We are approaching the Season of Eating. It begins with Halloween, then Thanksgiving, and then extends itself to pre-Christmas gatherings and parties (one part flour, one part sugar and one part shortening), then Christmas, then New Year’s Day, then Super Bowl Sunday with its acres of carbs, fats, etc. It’s Read More
The staff editorial is the majority opinion of The Murray State News Editorial Board. Sexual assault and alcohol abuse are serious issues not to be taken lightly and are, frankly, impossible to solve overnight. There will always be people who don’t know the difference between right and wrong, or who know the difference and simply Read More
Column by Taylor Grace Suiter, Senior from Brentwood, Tennessee “Back when I joined Facebook there wasn’t a ‘like’ button. If you thought your friend’s status was funny, you had to have the gumption to type out ‘Hahahahahha YAAAAAS!’ We didn’t even have a share button. It was a different time back then.” – Me, in the future, maybe. Read More
The following are Facebook comments responding to Our View, “Pushing the limit.“ The Murray State News reserves the right to publish Facebook comments and messages in its print edition, as both the Facebook page and the newspaper are considered open public forums. You can’t push the 15 to finish campaign then require students to pay extra Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Stubbornness is exhausting. Defying change is, often, pointless. An existence based solely on closed-minded objection to differing viewpoints is bound to be a lonely one. There’s a fine line between respectfully proving someone wrong and arguing for the sake of arguing. Standing up for ourselves is a good thing. Getting back Read More
Column by John Muenzberg, Lecturer of philosophy It’s become a movie cliche for a character, during a heated debate, to declare that they don’t want to “just debate semantics.” The implication is that debates about the meanings of words are trivial and unnecessary. After all, it seems to be assumed, we all agree about the meanings of Read More
The staff editorial is the majority opinion of The Murray State News Editorial Board. “It will be the best four years of your life,” they said. “It will be worth it,” they said. What happens when four years turns into five or six? What if college’s “worth” changes and increases to the point of unaffordability? Read More
Column by Hallie Beard, Junior from Louisville, Ky. Midterms: everything is made up and the points don’t matter. If I were to approach a random student in the Quad and say, “The lowest points of my life have been during fall midterms,” they probably wouldn’t doubt me. I can’t be the only one who dreads early October in Read More