This is not your grandpa’s back-to-school must-have’s
No, you do not necessarily need a notebook or binder with wooden pencils anymore. You’re in college now, buddy. Time to grow up, right? Well, …
Posts in category Editorial
Angry Rhetoric and Cable-News Media Dividing the U.S.
The angry rhetoric spouted by President Donald J. Trump and shown by the news media, repeatedly, is dividing the U.S. As a citizen of this …
Allow yourself to breathe every now and then
I find myself falling asleep in a slump of exhaustion more often lately. The hubbub of everyday life has taken over and days seem to …
Don’t underestimate the value of passion
When I entered ETSU, I was a Biology major. Two days later, I knew that wasn’t going to work out. My grades weren’t bad. (Though …
To the future
This is it friends, my final article. I’ve come to the end of a very winding 4 year road, and I am graduating this year. …
Here’s to us: A letter from the next executive editor
To the readers of the East Tennessean, With this last edition of the paper for the 2016-2017 annual year, I have taken up the honorable …
Research in Review: ETSU professor Richard Ignace studies massive stars
“What you see depends on how you look,” says Richard Ignace, a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at ETSU. Ignace has been …
‘Totem’ represents everything I will miss about the East Tennessean
On an evening in early April, we produced life in the East Tennessean newsroom. I was bored that night. My staff and I were waiting …
Why the ‘just deal with it’ option is not viable
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before: It’s winter, chill in the air, snowflakes falling, the whole shebang. You live in the mountains of …
Why we need standardized tests
We don’t. There I said it. We do not need standardized tests at any level, but particularly at the post-secondary level where we have such …