Zach Becker Editor-in-Chief Mutually assured destruction. That’s the best way I can sum up why I support the legal right to carry concealed firearms, both on campus and otherwise. Remember the Cold War? We had two super powers, vying for power and supremacy, both with an arsenal of nuclear warheads capable of destroying the world [...]
Nathanael Edward Bassett Contributor Neil Postman was a brilliant culture critic who proposed the theory that American education has had different “gods” at different times, reasons for education and a purpose towards learning. The “old gods” as he called them, were a sense of virtue in learning. The United States was formed by a group [...]
Jason McGill Assistant Editor Have you ever had a dream for your future? Do you want security and prosperity for yourself and your family? Most people will discourage you, because the chance of failure is so great, but you are special. If you have faith in yourself and the commitment to see this journey to [...]
Sports are a total waste of money. Period. Exclamation point!
Mike Courson Guest Contributor The economy. As if we have not heard enough about the economy. Well, we may not have heard enough. Or, in the least, we are not hearing the right things. The Obama administration has a tremendous task on its hands: to correct decades worth of bad governmental policy and greedy business [...]
Nathanael Edward Bassett Contributor Don’t forget, today and tomorrow (March 17 and 18) students at MSU can vote on the widely discussed “sustainability fee”. The electronic ballot is at elections.missouristate.edu and there is a link to the proposal created by SGA. In short, the proposal consists of adding a two dollar fee for students each semester, [...]
Kimberly McGarry Contributor Recently, one of Obama’s appointees, Carol Brown, was discovered to be a member of the Socialist International’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society. Whilst it sent right-wing bloggers to their keyboards to send out the call of “socialism” and “world government” with gleeful grins on their faces, it set me to thinking. [...]
Nathanael Edward Bassett Contributor Students are people in transition. Suddenly, newfound freedoms abound. You don’t have to shave if you don’t want to, your breath can stink if you choose and your dietary habits can resemble the grease trap behind a Korean restaurant. People are getting pledged, getting drunk, getting diseases and thinking it’s the [...]
Tessa Eldridge Contributor What is a vegetarian? What is a vegan? And what are the rules of these lifestyles? I have been involved in the plant-based dietary lifestyle of vegetarianism for almost five years. Three of those have been as a vegetarian and I am almost at the two year mark for being vegan. I [...]
Jason McGill Contributor I don’t think it’s a good idea to create a Wyrick-like grant for sustainability from a small student fee. It’s like paying a ticket to sit and watch others take care of the problem. Consider that ever since we invented language, we’ve been telling stories. Anyone could make up whatever story suited [...]