Cycles of Abuse: America’s Concurrent Drug Epidemic

Quashon Avent Staff Writer  Colorado is just one of many states currently struggling to curtail the opioid crisis. In their efforts to stop one drug epidemic, another one stands ready to take its place. Meth is back and is in full effect. Admissions to treatment facilities for meth usage has doubled and officials believe that opioids and cocaine are being used simultaneously with meth. Charges … Continue reading Cycles of Abuse: America’s Concurrent Drug Epidemic

Racial Profiling: How Do We Stop the Madness?

Michelle Everette Staff Writer  “A white person voices suspicions about an innocuous person of color. Police are summoned. And the encounter is posted on social media, sparking outrage about racial profiling.” This is the first sentence of a CNN article written on an incident that occurred at Yale University this past May, but there is no denying the disturbing fact that this could very well … Continue reading Racial Profiling: How Do We Stop the Madness?

Is MoviePass the Cure for Our Dying Cinema Culture?

Sarah Grace Goolden Opinions Editor In 2017, movie theater attendance in the U.S. and Canada dropped to the lowest since 1992, according to Box Office Mojo. Whether it was due to subpar films or impossibly expensive tickets and concessions, the business is struggling and MoviePass seemed like its knight in shining armor. However, many are calling what was supposed to be a cinematic savior too … Continue reading Is MoviePass the Cure for Our Dying Cinema Culture?

President Trump Has Rocky Diplomatic Visit to Great Britain

Luciano Gonzalez Staff Writer  President Donald Trump met with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on July 11 as part of the agenda for the recent NATO Summit. The Summit took place in Brussels at the NATO headquarters. NATO Summits are periodic, as the last one that took place happened in May of last year, as opposed to more structured and … Continue reading President Trump Has Rocky Diplomatic Visit to Great Britain

Celebrating Heritage and History at the Highland Games

Andrew Salmon Staff Writer  On a foggy mountaintop in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, a crowd of thousands gathered to watch a kilted handler and his two Collies, Luke and Lucy, herd a flock of sheep back into their pen. “Get down!” the handler hollered to his dogs over a microphone, and instantly, down his well-trained companions went. “Now go back!” Back they went, encircling … Continue reading Celebrating Heritage and History at the Highland Games

The Open Returns To Carnoustie

Tripp Hurd Staff Writer  The world’s oldest golf tournament returned to the Carnoustie Golf Links this week for the playing of the 147th Open Championship in Angus, Scotland. Play began early Thursday morning with unusually mild conditions. In fact, it was actually kind of weird to see the sun shining at Carnoustie. This helped provide scores much lower than what spectators are accustomed to at … Continue reading The Open Returns To Carnoustie

All-Star Break: Recapping the First Half of the MLB Season

Dillon Overby Staff Writer  What an exciting baseball season it has been already, and it’s only halfway over. The All-Star break allows us to reflect on this past season, which has a few delightful surprises and a couple of shocking downfalls. D. Martinez from Boston and Jose Ramirez from Cleveland are leading the league in home runs with 29. Martinez leads the league in runs-batted-in … Continue reading All-Star Break: Recapping the First Half of the MLB Season

The Trump Baby Balloon Has My Vote

Patrick O’Connell Staff Writer  During Donald Trump’s visit to London, the world was shocked by the appearance of a balloon resembling our president as a baby. There’s been a lot of criticism of the balloon’s appearance as a massive insult, and as a symbol of waning relations between the US and the rest of the world. Having seen the Trump Baby float above the city … Continue reading The Trump Baby Balloon Has My Vote

The World Cup Final: France vs Croatia

Douglas Burns Staff Writer In a quiet bar in Kernersville, NC at 11 a.m., there were three families sitting watching a game that was blasted across all twenty or so large televisions and a projector. While att the main bar, baseball was played on the screens, a few of us gathered to watch professional football. Not the hand-egg kind, where the foot is used once … Continue reading The World Cup Final: France vs Croatia

Tours & Treats: Extreme Measures at Weatherspoon

Justin Foxx Staff Writer Over the past 70 years, the Weatherspoon Art Museum has accrued one the largest collections of American art in the southeastern US. With such an illustrious reputation, it’s no surprise that the recent ‘Tours & Treats’ installation is yet another exciting piece of Weatherspoon history. The installation is presented three separate times with the first presented on June 14, another on … Continue reading Tours & Treats: Extreme Measures at Weatherspoon