Anonymous
January 31, 2020
According to research conducted by Guttmacher Institute researchers Rachel Jones and Jenna Jerman, by the age of 20, 4.6 percent of women will have had an abortion; by the age of 30, that percentage rises to 19 percent.
Despite recent decli...
Cassidy McKnight, Staff Writer
January 31, 2020
Standardized tests have been a part of our lives and defined us as students since the first grade. But, why? Why are children grouped into MAP or SC Ready, previously known as PASS, scores? Why are some rewarded while others ...
Cassidy McKnight, Staff Writer
November 15, 2019
Several reputable scientific studies have disproven the idea that vaccinating your child would cause them to develop autism. It was a “scare” for many parents when fake studies were posted all over social media, and as a pers...
Joshua Hardee, Assistant Editor
November 15, 2019
I was recently reading Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” for one of my classes. Concerning the context of the letter and who wrote it, there’s, of course, a lot of food for thought. But there was...
Elizabeth Floyd, Staff Writer
November 15, 2019
College is not for the faint of heart. Completing a college degree of any kind is not an easy feat, taking willpower, determination and the capacity for all-nighters when the occasion calls for extreme measures.
There is so much dem...
Elizabeth Floyd, Staff Writer
November 1, 2019
College is a fast-paced and stressful time of life that calls for stress relief one way or another. Many college students turn to a furry friend to calm them when the semester is getting rough. Personally, I find that just a l...
Cassidy McKnight, Staff Writer
November 1, 2019
Thinking back to my childhood, I remember a game my friends and I used to play called “Mother May I?” The rules were simple, the “mother” directs her “children” to take a certain number of hops, skips or steps towa...
Cassidy McKnight, Staff Writer
November 1, 2019
Let me start out by saying this film was a long-awaited sequel to one my favorite live action Disney films. As expected, due to her impeccable performance in the first movie, Angelina Jolie killed the role of Maleficent on the big sc...
DeAndrea Norman, Staff Writer
November 1, 2019
When Donald Trump first announced he was running for President of the United States, I thought it was a joke. Once he started gaining support from Republicans, I thought, “Well, someone with more experience can get more vote...
Joshua Hardee, Assistant Editor
November 1, 2019
Halloween is coming in a few days and I’m reminded of how uninterested I generally am in it, and yet I have this odd assortment of thoughts that resurface from everyone else’s excitement. That’s actually strange for me to say...
Elizabeth Floyd, Staff Writer
October 18, 2019
Hurricanes are an ever-present threat, or as some would say a nuisance, in the place FMU calls home. Large or small, no matter the size, hurricanes are a part of life this time of year in South Carolina. Hurricanes for long-time...
Joshua Hardee, Assistant Editor
October 18, 2019
“Mr. O’Malley, you don’t see us foodservice like we’re people; from day one you haven’t.”
Among others, this is what I remember from my first school board meeting at Florence School District 1 (FSD1): the appeals ...