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Should an Athlete’s Private Life be Completely Separate From Their Career?
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Sports

Should an Athlete’s Private Life be Completely Separate From Their Career?

By Kelsey Iffert
- Monday, September 14, 2026

Everyone who loves sports likes to get into the lives of their favorite athletes. But when is it too much and borderline stalkerish? I mean, if an athlete posts on social media about something like a marriage, engagement, or even the arrival of a baby, they have the right to,...

Politics

Should Someone Who Lies to Protect a Murderer Face Criminal Charges?

By Kelsey Iffert
- Monday, September 14, 2026

Anyone who is willing to lie and protect a murderer and could potentially be the reason the murderer kills again should definitely be charged, and not just as an accomplice; they should be facing charges of tampering with evidence, compromising an investigation, and lying to police or investigators. There is...

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Remembering the Hero Search-and-Rescue Dogs of 9/11, 25 Years Later

By Kelsey Iffert
- Monday, September 14, 2026

Robert Schenell remembers being the first member of the New York Police Department’s K-9 Unit on the scene when the first plane struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on Sept 11, 2001. Seventeen minutes later, Schenelle watched a second plane crash into the WTC’s South Tower. Schenelle...

Theater

The Negative Stigma Around Being A “Theatre Kid”

By KorDale Jackson-Powell
- Friday, September 11, 2026

Nowadays high school isn’t as black and white as you would have seen in movies a few decades ago. In most high schools nowadays, the “nerdy” kids aren’t being shoved into lockers and the “jocks” aren’t all douchebags. But from this era of overdramatized high school cliches, there is one...

Books

The Absence of Visuals and Sound

By Zach Viera
- Friday, September 11, 2026

Books have been portraying stories for thousands of years, and in the last century we’ve been able to communicate stories with visuals and sounds with the rise of video technology. We have movies, television shows, comics, manga, video games, and many other ways to portray stories in modern day, but...

What Anime Gets Right About Feeling Like an Outsider

By Kelsey Iffert
- Friday, September 11, 2026

I’ve enjoyed watching anime since I was about 12 or 13 years old, and I’ve connected with a lot of characters from different shows. A lot of shows have a story about the main character being sort of an outcast. Whether it be someone who is cursed, someone who wasn’t...

Politics

9/11 Attacks Caused a lot of Islamophobia that Still Persists Today

By Zach Viera
- Friday, September 11, 2026

25 years ago the 9/11 terrorist attacks shook the world and took the lives of 2977 people. As we all know, these attacks were carried out by Osama bin Laden, a Muslim al-Qaeda extremist, and with this public knowledge, Western views on Muslims changed for the worse overnight. To a...