The university should expand parking spots
Gerard Borne, Staff Reporter
November 3, 2019
One major problem at many universities across America is campus parking for students. The number of students and faculty is high, but parking spots are limited. One of the universities that is affected by this conflict is our own. I feel that there are many students who have to plan their whole da...
Finding joy as a communication major
Symiah Dorsey, Staff Reporter
November 2, 2019
Choosing a major has probably been one of the most overwhelming decisions I have had to make so far as an adult. Being asked to declare a major can feel like being asked to declare your life career, and truthfully, I’m not entirely sure what I want my future career to be. What I do know, however, i...
Singing the issues, something far from new for musicians
Andrew Jordan, Staff Reporter
October 26, 2019
It seems that everybody today has a political opinion, the uncle at the Christmas party or Taylor Swift at a concert. That is the case today as more celebrities, be it in part of the project they are in or in retaliation of the current office, are speaking their opinions in the political sphere. They...
Greedy universities, pay your athletes
Gerard Borne, Staff Reporter
October 25, 2019
California bill stirs up college athletics Last month, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, signed a bill allowing college student-athletes to be compensated for their name and image. Paying student-athletes has been a pressing issue in American sports for decades now. With some athletes li...
Health Center provides STD checks and stresses its importance
Devyn Alford, Intern at the University Health Center
October 24, 2019
Sexually transmitted infections are a problem that plague many young adults in colleges and universities nationwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly half of the 20 million new cases of sexually transmitted infections occur in people ages 15-24. College students...
Open relationships breed disloyalty, damages our society
Dylan Meche, Staff Reporter
October 19, 2019
Dating has always been a confusing and complicated world. A recent trend that has emerged and began to gain more popularity in the world of dating is open relationships. Open relationships are when both parties in the relationship agree to the possibility of seeing other people while still staying...
Why I keep the studying solo
Gerard Borne, Staff Reporter
October 18, 2019
In my first semester of college, I had to learn a lot of new things like how to live on my own, how to live with someone else and faced the most important challenge: How to study harder for all of my classes? In high school, I did not have to do much studying, as all of my classes and tests were easy...
Why I keep the studying solo
Gerard Borne, Staff Reporter
October 15, 2019
In my first semester of college, I had to learn a lot of new things like how to live on my own, how to live with someone else and faced the most important challenge: How to study harder for all of my classes? In high school, I did not have to do much studying, as all of my classes and tests were easy...
Get some sleep, start fresh
Dylan Meche, Staff Reporter
October 12, 2019
My first semester of freshman year, I made the naive mistake many freshmen make while scheduling classes. When I scheduled all my classes in the morning, this did not seem like such as bad idea. After all, I always considered myself a morning person, and I had to wake up early for all of my classes...
Early bird gets the worm
Prakriti Adhikari, Staff Reporter
October 12, 2019
“You can only balance two out of the three things in college: academics, social life and good sleep.” This is the greatest misconception about college life. Do you want to know why? Because there is one solution that balances all these three things together. Yes, taking morning class is a solution....
Editorial: Preparing for the paper’s future
Jacob Summerville, Editor-in-Chief
October 8, 2019
At the start of my freshman year, I looked for a job, and I found one. Guess what? I still work there. Throughout the past two years at the Office of Student Publications, I have written around 200 stories and covered dozens of events for The Lion’s Roar, and I am adding to that story total with...
Learning to overcome the struggles of the first semester of college
Dylan Meche, Staff Reporter
October 6, 2019
I remember the first day of my first semester like it was yesterday. I arrived 20 minutes early for my 8 a.m. History 201 class. When I got into the classroom, there was only one other person there. I tried to talk to them in an attempt to get to know them a little better and possibly even make...
