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We as an editorial board put out a piece earlier in the semester which implored those in the community not to stand for hate on our campus. Those who responded to the religious demonstrator in the quad last Wednesday did just that.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) needs to stand firm on their philosophy of not paying college athletes for their time and talent.
Social media was flooded with the hashtag #MeToo last week following dozens of accusations of sexual abuse against Hollywood big-wig Harvey Weinstein. Using the hashtag, sexual abuse survivors shared their stories or simply the words ‘Me Too”, which spoke volumes on their own. The sheer number of users who shared their stories is clearly indicative of a greater, pervasive cultural problem with sexual abuse if you are among those who still were not convinced of the magnitude of this problem.
Four sergeants of the U.S. military were killed in an ambush in Niger earlier this month on Oct. 4 after helping local forces defeat ISIS. Sgt. La David Johnson, Staff Sgt. Bryan Black, Staff Sgt. Jeremiah Johnson and Sgt. Dustin Wright are the names of the troops who died, while two other troops were injured in battle.
The Supreme Court’s term began just a few weeks ago. In the spotlight since has been the case of Gill v. Whitford, which stands to have a profound impact on the future of partisan gerrymandering.
A lone gunman fired shot after shot from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel last Sunday toward a crowd of 22,000 attending a country music festival below, killing 59 and injuring more than 500 others. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the U.S., according to NBC.
Media conquers our lives. It absorbs into our subconscious thought and affects our day-to-day activity and social interactions. In the first seconds of our day, we reach over hit off our alarm clock and start to scroll through our phones and search through the media we missed.
Imagine you fly out to Las Vegas for a weekend getaway. You’re up on your feet, dancing as Jason Aldean is rocking out on the stage or you are walking down the strip, exploring the city. Now, imagine a catastrophic shift from electrifying to petrifying in the blink of an eye.
Pregame National Anthem ceremonies have sparked a sustained level of controversy not typically seen by today’s standards ever since former 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided he would use it as a platform to protest police brutality last August. But, the issue reached new heights when the President of the U.S., Donald Trump, decided to weigh in on the matter at a rally in Alabama on Sept. 22.
There’s a humanitarian crisis going on in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean Islands.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made several statements about the policies surrounding free speech on some college campuses. Citing examples of campuses like Georgia Gwinnett College — where students are limited to expressing themselves in specific “free speech zones” — Sessions rightly said that there is an issue with the suppression of free speech on college campuses. This is reprehensible, if not outright authoritarian, and needs to be halted.
Riots erupted following the shooting of Georgia Tech student Scout Schultz, who was the leader of Pride Alliance and part of the LGBTQ+ community on campus. The story of this student highlights many different controversial topics within our current society, such as mental illness, the LGBTQ+ community, and the stigma behind them.
Chambersburg Area School District (CASHS) has become the subject of widespread attention because of its decision to cancel and forfeit a high school football game due to an anonymous threat of violence on social media preceding the game on Sept. 15. While threats of this nature are nothing new for high schools, what has drawn so much attention to this case in particular is the perception of racial tensions at the school. Yet another reminder that our community is just as susceptible to these problems as anywhere else in the country.
Last weekend an unlikely group of super fans, known as Juggalos, marched in Washington, D.C. The devout followers of the rap duo Insane Clown Posse (or ICP) used their constitutional right to protest the FBI’s labelling of fans as a gang.
ESPN host and contributor Jemele Hill, was under fire last week over expressing her honest yet raw opinion about President Donald Trump being a white supremacist. She voiced her opinion in a twitter feed that threatened her job, right to freedom of speech, and overall well-being as a black woman in today’s society. Hill openly expressed that Trump “is the most ignorant, offensive president of my lifetime. His rise is a direct result of white supremacy. Period.”
Members of the Republican Party and the Trump Administration are making great strides to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare.
