3 sports legends depart with no one to take their place September has been a cruel month considering who from the sporting world has departed this orbiting arena of sports. Within a […]
Gone But Not Forgotten
You Said…What?
by Tegan Bradley, Liberal Studies Lorelei is a first year SMCC student, a country girl at heart working to one day become a veterinarian. She’s five feet short, constantly emitting positivity and a friendly […]
The Best Free Tools for a Safe Computing Experience
If you’re like me at some point you bought a new personal computer and that computer came with an antivirus program. However, that antivirus program unlike a lot of other software that probably came […]
Resistance as the Path to Understanding : An interview with Teresa Swinbourne
Illaria Dana, Education Major Being a student is largely about relationships. There are internal relationships we have with the information we receive. There are external relationships with professors and with peers. Navigating these relationships requires […]
Gun Violence is Not Going Away; We Need to Take Control
By Ashley Berry Once again we are faced with a devastating school shooting. A gunman went on a rampage at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon on date. During the attack, nine people tragically […]
The Dark Side of College
By Garrick Hoffman Depending on whom you are and where you plan to apply to, investing in college is barely considered a rational, calculated decision today. Today four-year universities come with an astronomical and […]
Inside the Planned Parenthood Rally
By Ashley Berry Around noon last Tuesday, September 29th, Monument Square in downtown Portland quickly flooded with enthusiastic supporters of Planned Parenthood. The attendees stood together, chanted and shared stories on how Planned Parenthood […]
The Child Protective Dilemma
By Hali Sarah Parsons, Horticulture Major The severity built into the State of Maine’s Child Protective Unit does not serve justice to its hardworking citizens. We should implement suggestions to raise value using […]
The F-Word : Ignore the stigma
Megan Prevost, Biotechnology Major The phrase, “I’m not a feminist” doesn’t make any sense. What this says is that someone does not believe in the feminist movement, or what feminists are trying to […]
Empires: Good or Bad?
By Ian Ziller In the modern western world we have been brought up to believe that the idea of having an empire or dictatorship is bad and tyrannical, but what if that is […]
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