Administration made the smart choice by continuing the mask regulations on campus despite Gov. Greg Abbott's removal of the mask mandate this week. Beginning March 10, Abbott rescinded the public mask mandate established in July of last year. While private businesses and schools can still require masks and social distancing, several counties ... [Read More…]
New Greek Life protocols increase fraternity, sorority workloads
Student Life announced this week that first-year students will be able to join fraternities and sororities next spring. The decision came from administration despite some concerns from officers. Allowing freshman to join means three straight semesters of new classes, with the last class including freshman in the spring. Clubs will be pushed to ... [Read More…]
What are you going to do?
To cap off Texas Independence Day, March 2, Gov. Greg Abbott announced that, effective March 10, the state-wide mask mandate will be lifted and businesses will be allowed to open to 100% capacity. This sparked extreme reactions both against Abbott's decision and for it. Some businesses have responded saying they will continue with COVID-19 ... [Read More…]
SGA is bolstering a better campus environment for current, future students
The ongoing pandemic has impacted the way students on campus engage, socialize and connect, but SGA has found ways to safely create opportunities during a tumultuous academic year and also improve the campus culture. Before the semester had even started, SGA offered its support for Black and international students amidst a divisive summer full ... [Read More…]
Reflecting on the year that changed the world
Thinking about everything that has changed in the last year can be scary and overwhelming. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in a lot of areas, affecting things as local as the closing of many small businesses and as large as the operations of the entire entertainment industry. I’ve caught myself thinking a lot about what I was doing this ... [Read More…]
Unpaid internships put low-income students at a disadvantage
Each year, an estimated 20 million students enroll in higher education, willingly plunging themselves into thousands of dollars in student loans in the hopes that their degrees will earn them jobs in their desired fields. While the degree itself is important, many employers would argue that the field-related experiences students participate in ... [Read More…]
Ted Cruz won’t resign, but that doesn’t mean we should just move on
Last week, Texas experienced a statewide emergency due to a winter storm that caused power outages and water shortages in multiple big cities across the state. The state was in a tight spot, not all prepared for this kind of winter weather and many people were desperate just to find food, water and warmth. The storm made its way to national ... [Read More…]
City, state officials, ERCOT unprepared for winter storm
Last week's snowstorm was devastating for many people across Texas. More than half of the state lost power and access to clean water, pipe bursts damaged property and many lives were lost. It is clear through all of these damages that Texas was grossly unprepared for such a storm. Residents expressed frustration that state and city officials ... [Read More…]
On the frontline: My experience with the National Guard and rescue crews
Wednesday started as a typical day for me. Well, as typical as it can be to live through the coldest Abilene has ever been. I was emailing back-in-forth with a source for a story that I was working on. We initially had an interview scheduled for the next day, but he told me he was unsure if he could do that interview because he was helping move ... [Read More…]
Unsung heroes of the winter storm
A lot of us did not expect to have a pre-spring break in the middle of February, but ultimately that’s what happened as a whole university. "The winter storm displaced many of us, and forced us out of our daily routine." Now, it wasn't an actual spring break because of what happened across the state of Texas. Usually there's a lot of traveling ... [Read More…]
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