Sixteen shots, that’s “all” it took for Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke to subdue Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old boy armed only with a 3 inch knife. His only crime: vandalizing a police car. Meanwhile,...

As much as we stress the importance of charity this time of year, charity creates a dilemma. How do we ensure that the money we give will truly support the cause? Luckily, those of us at Appalachian State...

There is a chill in the air. The leaves are beginning to change and the first semester is coming to an end. This can only mean one thing: The holiday season is upon us. In the holiday season I definitely...

Terrorist attacks are always more than just tragedies. They are also tests of humanity, our ability to transcend those challenges but showing how much we truly value all human life. Unfortunately, in...

The month of November is usually a forgotten time, wedged between the celebrated creepiness of Halloween in October and the joyful melody of Christmas in December. While Thanksgiving is naturally a celebrated...

  The situation at the University of Missouri has been the latest in a long line of incidents that have forced us to confront our twisted handling of racial issues. This is always a difficult...

  Students and faculty have been protesting a lot lately, and the board of governors has given them quite a lot to protest about. Only a week after hiring Margaret Spellings, the UNC Board of Governors...

We all see the signs. In the windows and behind the counters of our favorite restaurants. These signs are sanitation ratings. We all know they are there, but rarely do we know what they actually mean. All...

Whether you are a sports fan or not, you have seen the constant commercials and ads for daily fantasy sport companies, DraftKings and FanDuel. Two of the biggest fantasy sport industries in DraftKings...

Last Thursday, over 300 students gathered in the parking lot outside of Kidd Brewer Stadium to protest what they believed to be Appalachian State’s misallocation of funds. What sparked the protest...

When Margaret Spellings became secretary of education in 2005, NBC reported that one of her first actions was to write a letter to PBS criticizing a show which featured a lesbian. We can only imagine...