Lifestyle 4/26/2018, 12:00pm Demi’s Diems: Our time here shapes us into who we are meant to be By Demi Lawrence Growth. If I had to describe my freshman year in one word, it’d be that one.
Campus 4/25/2018, 5:08pm OUR VIEW: We need to support, save student newsrooms By Editorial Board When student newsrooms lack editorial independence, they cannot properly inform their campus communities.
Lifestyle 4/19/2018, 3:00pm Demi's Diems: Music is the base of who we are By Demi Lawrence We associate music with cultures, genders, time periods and so much more.
Lifestyle 4/12/2018, 3:00pm Adult-ish: We all have the power to make choices, I made mine on my future By Audrey Bowers We all have the power, to a certain extent, to make choices that we can be proud of and to live meaningful and fulfilled lives. Changing my major has made all the difference.
Lifestyle 4/12/2018, 9:34am Our View: The Daily News grades outgoing executive slate OPTiC By Editorial Board Each year, The Daily News evaluates and assigns a grade to the outgoing Student Government Association (SGA) slate.
Lifestyle 4/11/2018, 12:53pm Never Being Boring: Why Sinclair poses a threat to more than just journalists By Evan Hatfield The name Sinclair Broadcast Group has slowly risen to prominence over the past year. The company has gained attention for the insertion of the company’s right-wing views into local news broadcasts through a number of methods.
Lifestyle 4/9/2018, 3:00pm Pencil Shavings: To the Millennial of Today: Here’s Why You Matter By Justice Amick Our generation, the Millennials, is at its peak. We are pushing for change, rallying behind each other, standing together. Our voice is a united front against those who doubt, mock and threaten us.
Lifestyle 4/5/2018, 12:27pm Wyman's Words: Women's basketball is on the rise, and Indiana is at the center of it all By Elizabeth Wyman The smell of cigarettes and cheap bar food cling to my clothes as I sip my flat diet coke while sitting in the middle of a sports bar somewhere in small-town Indiana on Sunday evening.
Lifestyle 4/5/2018, 12:00pm Adult-ish: 'Panic and anxiety ran through my viens' By Audrey Bowers The night before the results of the 2016 election came out, I watched the news and anxiously bit my nails, hoping it was all a bad dream as Trump won electoral votes.
Lifestyle 4/4/2018, 12:00pm Demi's Diems: The voters are coming By Demi Lawrence Pew Research Center defines “Millennials” as those aged 22-35, and also says that as of April 2016, Millennials made up 31 percent of the voter pool with a population of 69.2 million.
Lifestyle 4/3/2018, 9:00am Pencil Shavings: The significance of a birthday By Justice Amick I had a Facebook memory pop up the other day that almost made me cry.
Lifestyle 3/29/2018, 12:00pm Over the Rainbow: On the importance of remembering how to make tortillas By Crystal Pennell The steam from the taco meat fogged my glasses as I took the pot off the hot stove.
Lifestyle 3/26/2018, 3:00pm Pieces Unfound: Crying was my strongest weakness By Henry Davis, II Crying is a sign of weakness. That’s what society has been teaching us for a long time. It’s a sign of weakness, especially if you’re a boy. If that’s the case, I suppose I was very weak as a child. I cried a lot.
Lifestyle 3/22/2018, 1:00pm Adult-ish: Straight is not the default, 'Love, Simon' portrays that incredibly well By Audrey Bowers My name is Audrey Bowers and I’m just like you. I drink too much iced coffee with my friends, struggle to find a decent place to park on Ball State’s campus, stress out about getting everything I’m supposed to have done and happen to enjoy a good Netflix binge.
Lifestyle 3/20/2018, 3:00pm Never Being Boring: Progress isn’t perfect, but we shouldn’t abandon it By Evan Hatfield We as humans are far from perfect, or so we've been told. Everybody makes mistakes, they say. Is it reasonable to assume all the things we’ve made through thousands of years of history aren't perfect, then?
Lifestyle 3/15/2018, 12:30pm Adult-ish: The Big ole ball of paint By Audrey Bowers The world’s largest ball of paint lies in the middle of the country, in Alexandria, IN, which is about a 30-minute drive from Ball State University. It’s a sight that I probably would’ve missed if I wasn’t looking for it.
Lifestyle 3/14/2018, 10:00am Demi’s Diem’s: Change does not come from silence, it comes from noise By Demi Lawrence Change requires action. Action can be perceived as many different things, from simply just discussing a topic with friends to writing to government officials.
Lifestyles 3/5/2018, 11:15am LETTER TO THE EDITOR: A student's take on Parkland, Florida, gun control By Contributor We have grown up in an age where gun violence has taken away our sense of hope for the world and our ability to be at ease in class without fearing a person gunning down the door to take the lives of innocent people. I am worried for our future.
Lifestyle 3/2/2018, 3:00pm Abstract Thinking: On mass shootings and arming teachers By Abby LeClercq On April 20, 1999, two students entered Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado armed with assault rifles, plenty of ammunition, Molotov cocktails and two propane bombs set to go off at 11:17 a.m.
Lifestyle 3/1/2018, 3:00pm Musings from Moorman: Evil will not abide by gun regulation By Jordan Moorman Squeezing the trigger, I aimed for the old beer can. It flipped up in the air scattering and spraying everywhere.
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