My dog is the greatest thing in my life
Jessica Stewart, Columnist
July 14, 2019
I never had a pet growing up. I had fish, but you can't snuggle fish. You can't really play with fish. I always wanted a dog, so when I started renting my first house here in Charleston, I decided to adopt one. My boyfriend and I had been looking around at different shelters to see if anyone h...
Dogs are pets, not people
Alyssa Cravens, Staff Reporter
June 10, 2019
In a society that values change and strives to evolve, it is seemingly simple to go along with any new societal convention of the world, often mindlessly. While I appreciate so many of the advances our society has made as a whole, there is a certain aspect of “normal” life that frightens me: people...
Cats and dogs can, and should, coexist
Jackson Bayer, Columnist
February 18, 2019
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 a little too worked up and sending out some all-caps nonsense for the American people to rip to ...
Here’s to you, Bailey
Sean Hastings, Columnists
December 7, 2017
Without question, putting down my dog who I owned for 14 and a half years was one of the toughest things I had to deal with. The thing that made it so tough was that I was here at Eastern, unable to go home. I wanted to be there for my dog, Bailey, but everything happened too quickly. People will...
Last ‘Prowlin with the Prez to feature animals
Cassie Buchman, Administration Editor
December 7, 2015
Students can mingle with President David Glassman and plenty of pets at the Pets on Parade event at 4 p.m. Tuesday in the Bridge Lounge of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union. This is the last “Prowling with the Prez event” for the semester. Stephen Simpson, the vice president for academic...
