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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

At the end of the day were are all humans no matter what religious, political or ethno-centric background we have. We will all make mistakes and lose sight of how we should act in different situations. But if something has been made ever present to myself through examining human interaction this past year and two months its that many Christians ... [Read More…]

After an almost year-long pandemic, it is more clear than ever that our essential workers are not compensated properly for the work that they do. Since its inception, the federal minimum wage has increased every few years to compensate for inflation. Congress has not passed a bill to increased this wage in over ten years, though inflation has ... [Read More…]