According to the Boone Chamber of Commerce website, 1 in 6 people do not know where they will find their next meal. Among them, 1 in 4 are children. Such alarming statistics are the reason behind why...

Hugh Hefner, creator of Playboy magazine and lifestyle brand, passed away Sept. 27 at the age of 91. In his lifetime, Hefner was viewed by many as the symbol for male chauvinism, while other groups...

In the words of Henry David Thoreau, “an early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.” Thoreau, along with many other naturalists, looked to the outdoors for a simpler life rather than dealing...

After the deadly Las Vegas shooting on Sunday, the U.S. government is once again under attack for its lack of regulations regarding the purchase and sale of firearms in the country. Each time a tragedy...

With the massive devastation of Hurricane Maria bringing the often-neglected territory of Puerto Rico into the spotlight, one of the many issues facing its nearly 3.5 million residents has finally been...

Lindsey Wise is a freshman mathematics and studio art double major from Greenville, South Carolina

Imagine this: it is a Friday night and you are waiting tables for one of the busiest restaurants in town. There is an hour-long wait, you have seven tables full of guests and two more have just been...

It started with one player sitting on the sidelines during the National Anthem on Aug. 14, 2016 in a preseason game. It then quickly avalanched into roughly 200 players kneeling on Sept. 25, , according...

College education has always come with a price tag, but never more so than in the past few years. Slowly rising tuition and living fees have been building up for decades, with each year leaving the...

In November 2012, Nintendo Co., the popular Japanese video game company, released the Wii U video game console. The console was released as the follow-up to the incredibly successful Wii system, and...

Hillary Clinton released her tell-all book, “What Happened,” on Sept. 12, 10 months after she conceded the 2016 presidential election to Donald Trump. “This is my story of what happened. It’s...

The sports world has been brought to the center of attention once again over the last few weeks due to the renewed clash of sports and politics. We have been here before though. Sports and politics have...