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By: Jordan Hill Rigorous studying for the SAT, writing your life away and sweating over your grades are the beautiful things high school students do to prepare to apply to college, but not anymore! Goucher College, located in Maryland, allows students to apply to the college by recording a video of themselves explaining how they see themselves at Goucher. They ...

Pro By: Taymara Tait It’s Tuesday and an assignment is due a week from today. You turn to the rubric on your desk-top and it clarifies the assignment for you. Not only does your understanding for the assignment become clearer, but you also know in what direction to take your paper. If it wasn’t for that handy dandy rubric, what ...

By: Jordan Hill In an attempt to curb sexual assault, app developers launched Good2Go. It’s an app that adults can use to ensure each adult is consenting to sex before it happens. While it is a good idea and a great attempt to prevent college students from sexual assault while drunk, the app has its flaws. The app asks four ...

With sore shoulders, rape victim Emma Sulkowicz carries her mattress across campus in protest while her alleged rapist walks the same campus path. In Sulkowicz’s opinion, Columbia University did nothing to punish her alleged rapist. She plans to carry the mattress around campus until she no longer goes to school with her alleged rapist. One student at the University of ...

By: Tierra Francois With all the money, time and sacrifices made to be in college, one main question arises: Will it all be worth it in the end? The average debt for a student attending college for four years is about $29,400. With all that money being spent, you would really hope to have a decent job waiting for you ...

By: Elan Waite Sexual assault is an unavoidable truth that is staring us all in the face. The topic of sexual assault on college campuses has been a recurring issue that the media has continued to keep a bright light on. Coverage has spread throughout all media outlets, as it should, and has been monitored more closely by students. One ...

By Kenzie Kesselring If you’ve ever been to a sporting event, then you know about the kiss cam—that portion of half time that is spent scanning the crowd for people appearing to be in a relationship and then holding the camera on them until they kiss on screen in front of the whole stadium. Attention has been called to the ...

The “it’s for your own good” argument has been used to enforce doctrines on subordinate populations for generations. VSU plans to adopt this justification with a new campus-wide tobacco ban. The problem is that the “subordinate population” here at VSU is overwhelmingly made up of adults who are more than capable of making the personal decision to smoke cigarettes. The ...

By: Kristin Whitman– con The Board of Regents Tobacco and Smoke Free Campus policy becomes effective at VSU on Oct. 1. A VSU poll shows that 53 percent of students opposed or strongly opposed the ban, 43 percent supported or strongly supported the ban, while the other four percent had no opinion on the topic. If the majority of students ...

To the Editor: In the aftermath of the Mark George and Ben Carson fiascoes, some friends and I compiled a list of concerns over the way things are done at VSU: welcome to ataViSm U…. Definition: atavism: reversion to an earlier type; a throwback; so, think of the baby born with a tail; or, in more general terms, think of ...