Ariel is not real; leave her alone

Dillan Schorfheide, Sports Editor

July 9, 2019

Race is a subject that should not be thrown around willy-nilly; it is a delicate subject with real, powerful meaning. Even me and my fellow student journalists here at Eastern are taught to not mention race unless it is pertinent to the story. So I want to apply this logic to the “Little Mermaid”...

Editorials exist for us to read, react and act

February 21, 2019

There is no shred of doubt that the editorial that Goodloe Sutton published in his the Democrat-Reporter on Feb. 14 promotes a demonstrably false, morally irresponsible agenda that hurts minorities and political figures who were unjustly targeted. On Feb. 14, Sutton published the editorial called “Klan ...

Eastern responds to racial slur written on Doudna’s Stairwell

Analicia Haynes, Managing Editor

February 25, 2018

After a racist slur was written in a stairwell of the Doudna Fine Arts Center, Kiara Reed, a freshman political science major, took to social media to call out racism on campus. She said when her friend showed her the picture he had taken of the N-word, which was written in the stairwell in big,...

Column: Symbols of hate should be removed

Chris Picazo, Staff Reporter

June 22, 2015

Tragedy struck Charleston, S.C. when a shooting took place that left nine people dead Wednesday evening in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. The act of terror came out of nowhere from the shooter who allegedly spent an hour praying with victims before he attacked. The suspect, Dylann...