This year was supposed to be the year when all the voter suppression efforts put in place by Republican policymakers came into effect. This would be the first year that the new voter ID requirements...

On Sunday Cam Newton and the rest of the Carolina Panthers played in Super Bowl 50, giving Newton the chance to add the final achievement to his MVP season by hoisting the Lombardi Trophy for the first...

It would seem that Martin Shkreli's time in the limelight has yet to fade. Shkreli, the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, became famous last year when he raised the price of Daraprim, a life-saving...

Walk into the library at any time and you will likely see hundreds of students working on homework, papers and quizzes, with a quiet buzz of hushed whispers filling the air. However you look at it,...

In the “Call of Duty” series, games make you a soldier fighting for what's right. In the “Civilization” series, they make you a benevolent or mighty ruler who brings peace or destruction to the...

When 10:30 a.m. rolls around, Roess Dining Hall changes over all the leftover breakfast foods to their lunch menu, leaving hundreds of pre-wrapped biscuits, fruits, and cereals left. Meanwhile, in Boone...

It is clear that Republican policymakers are afraid of college students, especially at the state level. Aside from racial minorities, no group has been more targeted by the recent string of voter restriction...

With the upcoming March 15 primary election, a decision to remove the Plemmons Student Union voting site will cause a lag in student voters. On Jan. 19, by a margin of 2 to 1 votes, the Watauga County...

Riding high on the tides of anger and frustration, one candidate this year has seen a massive surge in the polls. Born the son of immigrants in a borough of New York, this man is doing his best to win...

  From a young age, kids are told that they must succeed in school to make something of themselves, and that success is often measured based on metrics like standardized test scores. Perhaps the...

  Last Tuesday, in a letter to the members and alumni of the honors college, Leslie Sargent Jones, the long-running director of the program, announced that she was stepping down from her position. This...

Last week's East Coast blizzard received the enormous amount of media coverage that one would expect for an event of that magnitude, occurring in one of the most populated and prominent areas of the country. However,...