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Who should mount the presidential saddle?

Who should mount the presidential saddle?

Nate Hunt, Opinion Editor March 7, 2025

Murray State is in the process of choosing a new president. The Board of Regents Presidential Search Committee narrowed the candidate pool to four candidates...

Murray State left without power, students feel powerless

Murray State left without power, students feel powerless

February 22, 2025

Murray State has experienced yet another power outage, and the backup systems have failed to work once again, similar to how they didn’t work last semester. After...

Rising costs jeopardize consumers

Rising costs jeopardize consumers

Nate Hunt, Opinion Editor February 13, 2025

Price increases have been happening for many years, but lately everything feels almost too expensive. The price of most goods is a reason for unreasonable...

Column: My challenge to the president

Column: My challenge to the president

River Murt, Staff Writer February 13, 2025

Donald Trump has done many things since he was inaugurated for his Grover Cleaveland-style second term as president of the United States. Things widely...

Trump's executive orders undermine our government

Trump’s executive orders undermine our government

Nate Hunt, Opinion Editor February 6, 2025

Trump has been back in office for almost two weeks now and has made many drastic decisions. When Trump was re-elected, he said he would fix the country...

OPINION: Are you worried yet?

OPINION: Are you worried yet?

MacKenzie Rogers, Lifestyle Editor February 6, 2025

When President Donald Trump was re-elected in November, I, like many, worried about what his second term would bring with his many promises revolving around...

TikTok ban sets a bad precedent

TikTok ban sets a bad precedent

Nate Hunt, Opinion Editor January 23, 2025

TikTok is one of the leading social media platforms in the United States, but legislation was recently passed to ban the app and remove access for 170...

Dear Santa, Murray State needs you

Dear Santa, Murray State needs you

Nate Hunt, Opinion Editor December 5, 2024

Dear Santa, I’ve been a good little Murray State student this year and so I deserve big gifts this year. I’ve never written you a letter before,...

Professor urges campus community to report worrying viral trend rhetoric

Professor urges campus community to report worrying viral trend rhetoric

Ray Horton, English Professor November 14, 2024

In James Baldwin’s novel “Giovanni’s Room,” a book I teach nearly every semester in my survey of American literature since 1865, a character named...

Canvas deadline will hurt students’ school-life balance

Canvas deadline will hurt students’ school-life balance

Nate Hunt, Opinion Editor November 14, 2024

Murray State wants to help us by changing our due date times but didn’t consider asking faculty or students how they felt about this. By the winter...

Column: Democrats take massive L

River Murt, Staff Writer November 14, 2024

Donald Trump’s presidential victory is a moment of uncertain, undefinable triumph for the populist’s voter base. Then mythical unease, unprecedented...

Kentucky shows interesting divide

Kentucky shows interesting divide

Nate Hunt, Opinion Editor November 14, 2024

The results from this election were completely unexpected. Nearly every poll going into this election night showed Harris beating Trump or Democrats beating...

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