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...
Entertaining, comedically harmless, and largely underrated are the three things that come to mind when talking about “Tower Heist” directed by Brett Ratner.
The 2011 film stars Ben Stiller, Eddie...
Over the summer, I interviewed a woman by the name of Cassandra Livermore. She lives in Coles County and as of June 16, she shared a vehicle with her husband and lived in a house that was on a single income.
Livermore,...
If you heard a loud gasp and squeal last night on Lincoln Ave., it was me. I have never been more excited to see a Dunkin’ in my life.
I am a self-claimed cafe connoisseur and I drink way too much...
Animal rights discourse was initially propelled, in large part, by ethicist Peter Singer’s famous 1975 book Animal Liberation in which he argued for a vegan diet.
Any being, Singer argues, with the...
