By: Elan Waite We like to take life by the horns. We have slogans and witty T-shirts that praise the idea of human agency, but that notion seems to change when it comes to death. In a recent opinion article on cnn.com, Brittany Maynard told her personal story about her painful journey with cancer and her desperate plea to end ...

By LaMarcus Wilkerson The abolishment of tuition is an American dream that will never come true – unless you move to Germany. Recently, Germany eliminated tuition payments for German students and international students. German universities are a nice alternative for American students who struggle to pay for college and don’t want to be saturated in debt. However, nothing in life ...

By: Tatyana Phelps During the month of October, all anyone sees is pink in honor of breast cancer awareness month. Why is it that we never see tons of dark blue for colon cancer, light blue for prostate cancer, yellow for bone cancer or purple for pancreatic cancer? People do not need to acknowledge breast cancer any less. It continues ...

Knowledge is power. In the case of the students at VSU, being informed of things that go on at our campus will give us more knowledge and power to make better, safer and more informed decisions. A little thing we like to call transparency requires the administration to be completely open with students. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. ...

By: Jordan Hill Delete your club-going, bikini-wearing, trashy Halloween costume-wearing pictures on your social media profiles. It’s time to get serious. It’s common sense that soon-to-be college graduates should have professional social media profiles. Sources and numbers prove that it’s important for professionals to be involved in LinkedIn. LinkedIn’s manager of corporate communications, Crystal Braswell, says that recent graduates make ...

By: Elan Waite After driving down Interstate-75 for any given amount of time, you’re bound to see a few staple billboards. The group of vandalizing cows painting “eat more chicken,” the hot and ready boiled peanuts at the next exit, and every so often, the one that reads that a fetus has a heartbeat 18 days after conception. In November, ...

By: Elan Waite Today’s society is obsessed with labels. We either crave them or despise them. We invest in them and rebuke them. Be it the materialistic labels we work for or the social labels we cannot avoid, labels are evident and prominent. When Raven-Symone, a popular child star from “The Cosby Show” and “That’s so Raven,” told Oprah Winfrey ...

By: Kenzie Kesselring A suburban Denver school board recently proposed a change to the AP U.S. history curriculum that is causing a lot of controversy between teachers, students and school board members. The new curriculum would “promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free enterprise system, respect for authority, and respect for individual rights to a higher degree,” as ...

By: Mayah Cantave The fight for same-sex marriage is almost at an end as the U.S. Supreme Court is paves the way for same-sex marriages in five more states. Technically, the Supreme Court did not establish a constitutional right for same-sex marriage, but rather deny hearing cases. The Supreme Court denied petitions to hear cases in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia ...

When the truth came out, the truth hurt. The painful truth to some people is that VSU is shrinking. The more important truth to the remaining 11,500 students is that reaching our goal — graduation — has become an increasingly difficult struggle. We realize recruiting is important, but VSU needs to realize that it is time for retention to take ...