When I was 16, I got my first job working at my local Monical’s Pizza. I stayed there for two years waitressing, cooking, working drive thru and everything in between. While working at Monical’s,...

President Donald Trump recently tweeted that “THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!” At first, I scoffed at the tweet, writing it off as just another example of the President getting...

Here’s a hard pill to swallow: You don’t have to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. It’s like all of a sudden people forgot that in 1943 the Supreme Court of the United States...

I will be the first to admit that I thought President Trump had outplayed and outsmarted everyone. Not that I support him or want him to, but it looked like he was going to get his glorious wall. First...

Born in 1950, my grandma didn’t know technology. Typewriters and rotary phones were the way to communicate outside of a world that was majority face-to-face interactions. Today, she uses technology every...

Is the state of Illinois doing enough to secure our safety, concerning gun violence? We want you to seriously consider that question and the possible answers to it. Has Illinois, or even the country,...

Valentine’s Day, or as some like to call it, Singles Awareness Day, is met with a variety of attitudes every year, with 2019 being no exception. Whether it is happiness from spending time with a significant...

Although today is filled with pinks and reds, your feelings about it may be black or white: you hate it or you love it. For a long time, I hated Valentine’s Day. One reason for this is because of my...

It’s important to take every opportunity that’s available to you. Even if that opportunity is sleeping a couple hours instead of bothering to hustle to class. We must remember, however, that  it’s...

Every day we hear something in the news about what President Trump, Congress and other politicians are doing. The real question is, do we fully understand what is going on? We at The Daily Eastern News...

I am a Residence Hall Association (RHA) representative for Stevenson Hall. Each member has to be a part of a committee, and I'm a part of the community service committee. Recently, the committee went to...

Karen … Katrina … Korenna? My name has been said and spelled many different ways. From leaving out a letter to adding a letter, I know when my name is being called when the teacher starts to sound...