Opinion: Why you should care about DACA
Devyn Mode, Layout Editor
March 9, 2018
Democrats’ recent unsuccessful attempts to take action on the status of former Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients proves the safety of those individuals is not a priority in the House, but it should be for you. DACA was enacted by the Obama Administration in 2012. It allows ...
Opinion: Being sick in college sucks
Kate Eckrote, Contributing Writer
February 12, 2018
I would consider myself a fairly healthy person. I often stay up until 3 a.m. watching health documentaries on Netflix. I always skip the whipped cream on my tall, double shot, extra drizzle, caramel Frappuccino. And I exercise regularly in the sense that I sometimes take the stairs. Theref...
Opinion: Safety for Tattnall Square Center for the Arts
Julianna Tollett, Contributing Writer
February 12, 2018
Everybody on Mercer’s campus, and even off campus, seems to have heard about the armed robbery that took place in Tattnall Square Park a few weeks ago. The incident occurred only a few days after shots were fired in Mercer Village at a group of students and an alumni. The students on campus were in ...
Opinion: Jay Sekulow should be allowed to speak at Founder’s Day
David Stokes III, Contributing Writer
February 6, 2018
Let me begin by stating that I find the political philosophy of Jay Sekulow repugnant, and his disdain for the LGBT community, Muslims and undocumented immigrants is directly contrary to my values as a liberal. I strongly believe that all people, regardless of their race, religion, sexual orientation, g...
Opinion: SGA senator speaks out against Sekulow
Joseph Muldrew, Contributing Writer
February 6, 2018
What does it mean to be a Mercerian? President William Underwood and Student Government Association (SGA) President Olivia Buckner have clearly answered my question when they chose to lionize Jay Sekulow, a Mercer alumni and lawyer for President Trump, as our Founder’s Day speaker. In Buckner’s ey...
Opinion: The college football system is a broken system
Connor Cable, Staff Writer
January 31, 2018
Another year, another college football championship with an SEC team on top of the podium. I am not here to discuss the merits of SEC football because we all know they are good. The problem lies in the fact that this year, there were two SEC teams in the four-team college football playoff, and they...
Opinion: YouTube star showcases suicide
Lisa Meskimen, Contributing Writer
January 27, 2018
At the beginning of 2018, the popular YouTuber Logan Paul posted a video blog (vlog) of himself encountering a dead body in Japan’s Aokigahara forest, also known as the Suicide Forest. Paul, with over 15 million subscribers to his name, is a 22-year-old man whose YouTube channel description reads...
A Goodbye Letter to Target
Kate Eckrote, Contributing Writer
January 20, 2018
Goodbye forever,, Target. It’s over. Done. You’ve given up on us, and I’m fine. Really, I’m not going to cry. Because you see, Target, I’m remembering things now. Without the diverting allure of your one-dollar section or hypnotic glare of your fluorescent lights, I can finally see cl...
Opinion: Is Greek life worth a life?
Lindsey Farni , Contributing Writer
December 22, 2017
Recently, a dark shadow has been cast over Greek communities since the death of Maxwell Gruver at Louisiana State University. Gruver died in a fraternity house on Sept.14 following a night of hazing. According to Louisiana-based newspaper “The Advocate, ” Gruver had been part of a fraternity ha...
Opinion: What should we do about gun violence?
Jabril Edmondson, Staff Writer
December 15, 2017
According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been over 300 mass shootings in America in 2017 alone. A mass shooting is classified as a shooting where four or more people are killed or injured. These aren’t instances of happenstance, they are intentional and damaging. There is obviously an issue ...
Opinion: “It’s Okay to be White” posters displayed throughout the country
Kianna Lanier, Contributing Writer
December 3, 2017
When has it been unacceptable to be white? The white population in America benefits from better education, higher income, lower unemployment rates, lighter criminal sentencing and many other privileges compared to those of blacks and Hispanics in America. In light of recent attempts to highlight these ine...
Opinion: I studied race and gender in Mercer athletics for my research class, here’s what I found
Sophie Peel, Contributing Writer
December 1, 2017
As with all communities, the athletic world is a jumbled pool of personalities, ethnic identities, competing morals, races, ideologies and voices. This column does not aim to expose and scold the athletic community for its wrongdoings; the athletic community merely works as a vehicle to observe and pos...