Brother Jed makes his comeback: Students engage with provocative campus preacher
Corryn Brock, Elizabeth Taylor
September 17, 2019
Condoms, counter-preaching and criticism. These were all topics of discussion in the Library Quad Tuesday afternoon. Jed and Cindy Smock, campus preachers, returned to Eastern for their 47th year of preaching, and many students came to listen to, engage with and observe the Smocks. Many of the students who attended were visibly upset with the messages the ...
Does Biden’s name hide controversy?
Dillan Schorfheide, Sports Editor
June 18, 2019
Irony sure is funny, right? Everyone (and rightfully so) ripped then presidential candidate Donald Trump a new you-know-what when audio was released, revealing him saying to grab women by their you-know-what. Trump has had a slew of other actions and words that could have and, some, should have...
Women have the right to get safe abortions
Jessica Stewart, Columnist
May 16, 2019
If you’ve been paying attention to the news or social media lately, you’ve probably seen a lot of discussion about abortion. Many states have been passing legislation recently that restrict women’s rights to abortion, and the main point of argument is whether or not this should be OK. This...
Historical, modern perspectives of vaccination controversy
Logan Raschke, Editor-in-Chief
May 12, 2019
It all started with a study. In the early 1990s, a group of British researchers published a study in The Lancet that showed people who received the measles, mumps and rubella vaccination were more likely to have bowel disease than people who did not. One of the researchers who worked on the study...
