First off, just let me say…gotcha!
I totally pranked every person reading this! You all thought that The Daily Eastern News was EIU’s paper for over 100 years when really it was just something I...
I am a firm believer that “teen girl movies” are an essential viewing genre for all demographics.
We all know the hits: “Mean Girls” and “Legally Blonde” are at the top of the field for good...
Representation in media is essential. Whether viewers are 5 years of age or 60, it is so important to see people that are just like you in the books we read, the movies we view and the television shows...
Season 1 episode 8 of the animated cartoon series "Gargoyles" can be interpreted as an allegory for the gun control debate. The episode is titled “Deadly Force” and would have aired on US television...
From the moment you arrive on campus as a freshman (and oftentimes even before) people are telling you to get involved with university organizations. They’ll tell you to join RSOs, Hall Council, Student...
American Beauty takes audience members through an experience of an average man who gets tired of living a simple and dull life and does a complete 180º turn.
Lester Burnham, played by Kevin Spacey,...
The first event that I ever covered for the Daily Eastern News was the Latin American Heritage Kickoff in the fall of 2021. I covered that same event this year, which was in Doudna.
There’s so much...
The term ‘latinx’, as Merriam-Webster notes, was created in the early 2000’s as a gender-neutral means of describing people of Latin American descent. And despite the good intentions of people using...
Imagine that you’re talking to one of your parents over text one random day and, at the end of the conversation, you tell them you love them only for them to respond with a thumbs-up emoji.
The audacity,...
During my freshman year of college, there was a huge group of people in the library quad causing a commotion.
They had a sign with a long list of sins that they claimed us as college students would...
I’d like to go back to early summer and visit “WE,” the sixth studio album by the vastly experimental indie rock group Arcade Fire.
Following a period of instability and isolation, thanks to COVID-19,...
There are two types of snack aficionados: those that read ingredients labels and those that do not. I belong to the first category, and most often I will not eat anything unless I have either read the...
