TJ Lindstrom, Editor-in-Chief
• September 30, 2021
If you should know one thing about me, it’s that I am a walker. I go on a walk at least once every day, sometimes twice, often for hours.
Walking allows me to clear my mind; to reset. I’ve also...
Earlier in class this week, my professor brought up a somber photo of themselves with the last two white northern rhinos left in the world: Najin and Fatu (on World Rhino Day nonetheless). The efforts...
Logan Colman, The Carroll News
• September 27, 2021
Although I tend to consider myself a very open-minded person, there is one topic that I refuse to change my view on: the Oxford comma.
I recently attended The Carroll News’ first meeting, and I was...
Editor's note: This opinion column is part of a faculty head-to-head series. Read the opposing perspective from Jim Lissemore and Medora W. Barnes, co-coordinators of the Program in Population and Public...
Editor's note: The opinion column is part of a faculty head-to-head series. Read the opposing perspective from Thomas Frazier and Anthony Tarescavage, faculty in the Psychology Department.
We...
TJ Lindstrom, Editor-in-Chief
• September 20, 2021
Before anything else, human beings are storytellers. Long before farming and bronze tools, before even writing and math, and millennia before the atom bomb, we invented stories — still our most powerful...
Patrick Kane, World News Editor
• September 17, 2021
President Joe Biden announced in April his intention to withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the twentieth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Though...
Lately, I’ve been thinking about personal change.
Physically speaking, the human body fully replaces itself (or at least most of itself), around every seven years.
However, mental change is a...
I’m sure you know the name Bob Dylan. But maybe this is the first time you’re hearing of the legendary Sixto Rodriguez, whose music, I’d say, is superior to Dylan’s. Rodriguez is the true embodiment...
I rarely raise my hand before I speak in class. Few of my professors, if any, would say that my participation in class is disruptive or disrespectful. I’ll often ask follow-up questions or ask the teacher...
If I'm being honest with you, I don't want to write this column. I don't know what to write. What can I talk about? It felt like there was so little time. Losing part of my last two years at JCU made me...
June 16, 2017. It was the last day of my freshman orientation. I was nervous to attend a morning church service all on my own. My parents left that morning and I wouldn’t see them until later that...
