Baylor University suspended a fraternity this week for racist behaviors at a Mexican-themed party. According to the Dallas Morning News, students dressed in sombreros and serapes and some reported that students painted their faces brown and dressed as construction workers and maids. The fraternity was suspended Monday after hundreds of students ... [Read More…]

College has gone home to college heaven, where it will live on in old Instagram posts, Snapchat clips, Facebook albums and homecoming reunions twenty years from now when everyone we know will have three kids. College lived a long and prosperous four years, from August 18, 2013 – May 13, 2017. We gather here today to celebrate College, to remember ... [Read More…]

By the time you start reading this short column on your way to the Bean or your god-forsaken class that you've been dreading since day one, let me just enlighten you that over the last 66,600 seconds I have been to the brink of boiling with hot anger. Spring 2017 needs to come to a drastic close. I'm pretty sure that if hell existed, Satan would ... [Read More…]

Time is cruel. It feels like four years have gone by faster than I could say “Convergence Journalism Major” and now I don't know what comes next. How do I cope with the realization that after years of going to school, I’ll be leaving the only life I can remember? In kindergarten – learning colors, words, and how to make friends. In high school – ... [Read More…]

23 days. That’s how many days I have left as a college student. You might be thinking, “oh great, I bet this is another one of those sappy goodbye columns that all graduating Optimist members write,” and you, my friend are correct and should prepare yourself because this is going to be the sappiest letter you’ve ever read. I’ll be honest, ... [Read More…]

How does graduating with your bachelor's degree at 19 sound? Terrifying? Yeah, that just about sums up how I'm feeling right now. As a second-year student and a senior, or seen-more, if you will, I've got my hands tied. On one, my senioritis has taken hold, and I'm ready to be done; but on the other I feel like there is still so much more to ... [Read More…]

All of the days are starting to run together and the homework keeps piling on faster, like an oven conveyor belt at a sandwich shop. I'm working on the side of the oven where the sandwiches come out, all melty-cheese and crispy bread. There's a long line to the cash register, the orders are adding up and there's a few customers peaking over the ... [Read More…]