Watching students my age hunched over, their arms hugging their torsos while speed walking to class may prompt a quick chuckle from any passerby regardless of age. Seeing someone shiver in their thin...

Depression is an illness that hits people really hard sometimes. Some people are more affected than others, and it can be very serious. I have suffered from clinical depression since I was 13 years old. At...

Ever since the #metoo movement started, a welcome change has been happening across the nation. People are finally starting to realize that sexual assault, harassment and abuse is an issue. Something...

The amount of complexities we will never understand and questions we will never have the full answer to in this world is infinite. Is there are a heaven and a hell? Too bad the dead cannot speak. Can...

Well, after a couple years of discussion, the administration and the Board of Trustees has finally made a decision: they will not cut any athletic programs. However, university officials do “anticipate...

Recently I was inspired by a fitness blogger who I follow named Stacey D (#StaceyDTaughtMe) to do a certain “cleanse.” Most people will immediately read that and assume it implies refraining from having...

There is a need to be careful when the transfer of knowledge on feminism and its liberation process are seen as a power move, not a move toward truth. To solidify this claim, feminist standpoint scholars...

With tax season rearing its ugly little head around the corner, the staff at The Daily Eastern News realizes that students are beginning to cultivate ways to spoil themselves with their tax refund. Especially...

When my family had to put down my first dog Bailey in November, I told myself that I would never get over it, nor would I want to ever get a new dog. My friend Dwight told me to not think about it as...

One of the reasons I chose to become an EIU panther was the promise of independent studies and the opportunity to write an undergraduate thesis. Though I have always loved school, I would finally have...

Being a homosexual man, there is one thing that has always bothered me when it comes to heterosexual men. For some reason, heterosexual men truly believe that if a homosexual man talks to them or tries...

Even though dwelling on the past can be toxic, I look back in fear of forgetting the details of each moment. The nine-year anniversary of my stepmother’s (Randi) death is coming up, and every year...