by Jordan Hill The federal government is known for its snooping, sneaking and watchdog mentality, yet they want to cater to citizens’ privacy. In another attempt to keep American safe, President Obama is proposing a new federal legislation. Contrary to what some may think, it is actually a good idea. The president is proposing The Student Digital Privacy Act. It ...

by Jordan Hill Resolutions are meant to be kept, not ditched less than a month into the New Year. Students partake in making New Year’s Resolutions and this week is typically when students abandon those resolutions. Do not stop now! You are 22 days into your resolution. A study taken by Stop Procrastinating surveyed 1000 college students in America. The ...

Written By: Jordan Hill  Pro: There is a difference between an annoying statement and harassment. Saying, “Hey beautiful,” or, “How are you doing?” is not harassment; it’s a compliment. By complimenting random women and sometimes being vulgar, we desensitize what true harassment is—aggressive pressure or intimidation. Yes, it’s awkward and sometimes creepy and yes, men should think of a better ...

 Written By: John Stephen and Jordan Hill  VSU President William McKinney has ordered a third-party investigation into a clash between a former adjunct professor and VSU alumnus that occurred this summer over the use of state resources for political purposes.   Dr. Mark George, the professor involved in the conflict, has filed a formal complaint with the USG’s Ethics and ...

By: Jordan Hill The Pythagorean theorem, Beowulf and how atoms form are all things students have studied in high school or college, but that information is not helpful when it comes to real life. Why is it that we’re never taught the things that are actually going to benefit us in the “real world?” By the time high school students ...

Written By: Jordan Hill The Women’s and Gender Studies program and VSU administrators are airing a different type of dirty laundry this year. Because of a dispute between WGST and VSU’s top administrators, the program will not hang T-shirts on clotheslines to create awareness of sexual assault and domestic violence for the first time in 14 years. The Clothesline Project ...

By: Jordan Hill Delete your club-going, bikini-wearing, trashy Halloween costume-wearing pictures on your social media profiles. It’s time to get serious. It’s common sense that soon-to-be college graduates should have professional social media profiles. Sources and numbers prove that it’s important for professionals to be involved in LinkedIn. LinkedIn’s manager of corporate communications, Crystal Braswell, says that recent graduates make ...

By: Jordan Hill It takes a death of a U.S. citizen to motivate our government and the CDC to take action. Five international airports are screening temperatures of passengers coming back from West Africa, where Ebola is believed to have started. This movement comes after a couple of Ebola diagnoses in the U.S. and one death. Screening international passengers’ temperatures ...

By: Jordan Hill Rigorous studying for the SAT, writing your life away and sweating over your grades are the beautiful things high school students do to prepare to apply to college, but not anymore! Goucher College, located in Maryland, allows students to apply to the college by recording a video of themselves explaining how they see themselves at Goucher. They ...

By: Jordan Hill In an attempt to curb sexual assault, app developers launched Good2Go. It’s an app that adults can use to ensure each adult is consenting to sex before it happens. While it is a good idea and a great attempt to prevent college students from sexual assault while drunk, the app has its flaws. The app asks four ...