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OPINION: Boone can't handle rain

OPINION: Boone can’t handle rain

Bella Lantz, Associate Opinion Editor May 1, 2024

When walking to class, it begins to rain. You forgot your rain jacket at home, but think nothing of it. Instead, you continue on your way — then it starts downpouring. Within minutes, you are jumping...

Letter to the Editor:  Public education is at stake this year

Letter to the Editor: Public education is at stake this year

Conor Goodwin May 1, 2024

As a proud alumnus of Wake County Public Schools, among the nation’s premier public school systems, I cannot understate how much a quality public education has shaped me. My public education taught me...

Letter to the Editor: Implementation of required first year seminar course

Letter to the Editor: Implementation of required first year seminar course

Bailey Anne Brodd April 29, 2024

As time continues to slip by, students of App State are losing sight of the history that is rooted so deeply into the place that they call home. Preserving the traditions and celebrating the culture of...

OPINION: Modern music sucks

OPINION: Modern music sucks

Allison Lehan, Opinion Editor April 29, 2024

The idea that music released between the 1960s-1980s is superior to anything produced within the past two decades is nothing new. Despite the creative outlet’s vast genre diversity, generations of people...

OPINION: Moving after graduation is not such a bad thing

OPINION: Moving after graduation is not such a bad thing

El Shedrick, Opinion Writer April 29, 2024

For students graduating in May, the prospect of finding a job after graduation can be daunting. Whether graduates are staying in Boone to work, or moving to a new city to find a job there, this process...

OPINIÓN: Deja de preocuparte por el futuro

Bella Lantz, Associate Opinion Editor April 28, 2024

Traducido por: Kooper Poorbaugh La graduación es un tiempo para celebrar logros y conocer el mundo real por primera vez. Sin embargo, desde la perspectiva de un graduado, el mundo real es un pensamiento...

OPINIÓN: Mudarse después de graduarse no es algo tan malo

OPINIÓN: Mudarse después de graduarse no es algo tan malo

El Shedrick, Opinion Writer April 28, 2024

Traducido por: Diana Gordon Para los estudiantes que se gradúan en mayo, la perspectiva de encontrar un trabajo después de graduarse puede resultar desalentadora. Ya sea que los graduados se queden...

Difference of Opinion: "The Tortured Poets Department" review

Difference of Opinion: “The Tortured Poets Department” review

Meg Frantz and Leah Boone April 24, 2024

“The Tortured Poets Department” leaves listeners waiting for more Meg Frantz As the self-proclaimed chairman of the Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift dives into past relationships with a quill...

OPINION: Traditional weddings are overrated

OPINION: Traditional weddings are overrated

Kaylie Morales, Opinion Writer April 22, 2024

Weddings are a time of celebration and unity for the couple and their families. There are formal rules that must be followed in Western weddings, including the division of genders in the wedding party,...

OPINION: The importance of green schools in K-12

OPINION: The importance of green schools in K-12

Kaylie Morales, Opinion Writer April 17, 2024

At App State, Sanford Mall is where many students bask in the sun, do school work or just hang out and enjoy the wonderful weather and surrounding mountains at any time. In the K-12 school system, students...

Letter to the Editor: The fight for the future is not over

Letter to the Editor: The fight for the future is not over

Andrew Myers April 15, 2024

Sheri Everts is resigning after a contentious, unresponsive and uncommunicative career as chancellor. We are not done with this fight, however. This is not the time for apathy. Now more than ever, students...

Leah's Lens: Conspiracy theory? No, just a Tuesday.

Leah’s Lens: Conspiracy theory? No, just a Tuesday.

Leah Boone, Former Opinion Editor April 15, 2024

Area 51 and the Illuminati. Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne. Princess Diana and Princess Catherine. While seemingly unrelated, each of these topics have one thing in common: the forefront of some of the...

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