Rebekah Davis, Assistant Editor
September 21, 2016
Filed under Opinion
“Hi, my name’s Rebekah, and I self medicate.
“ Cue: “Hi, Rebekah.”
I would consider myself a person who self-medicates to get through the day.
Self-medicating is using a substance of your choice and of your...
Rachel Droze, Editor-in-Chief
September 21, 2016
Filed under Opinion
This summer I spent eight weeks serving as a summer missionary in Salcha, Alaska. I had the opportunity to work as a camp counselor at Camp Baldwin with eight other college students from South Carolina, Mississippi and Alaska.
My...
Rachel Droze, Editor-In-Chief
April 20, 2016
Filed under Opinion
One of the first things that came to my mind when I heard about the terrorist attacks in Paris last year and in Brussels last month was how afraid I was, even though I was thousands of miles from the city that was attacked.
Then...
Leah Power, Staff Writer
April 20, 2016
Filed under Opinion
At the age of 8, I was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), a form of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) that affected my mental ability to stay focused instead of my physical ability to sit still. I went...
Jasmin Mitchell, Staff Writer
April 20, 2016
Filed under Opinion
Nudity - a few things come to mind when thinking about the topic. Society has shaped our minds into thinking the most obscure things about the human body. When thinking about the naked human body, some people think about obscenity....
Rachel Kirkland, Staff Writer
April 20, 2016
Filed under Opinion
I spent almost the entire night of my college orientation crying.
Allow me to set the context for you. As long as I had been alive, at the time of my coming to FMU, my college career would be the first time I had stayed somewhere...
Kimberly Boswell, Staff Writer
April 20, 2016
Filed under Opinion
Just like an audience at a play, we don’t see the work that goes on backstage. Talking to future professors and educators has made me realize how much training and skill actually goes in to teaching a class successfully. As...
Anna Jackson, Staff Writer
April 20, 2016
Filed under Opinion
Even though burgers and fries are easy and cheap to get with our busy school schedules, it is nice to enjoy a sit-down dinner and have a break. Recently, I took a break at Flavors of India, a sit-down Indian cuisine restaurant...
Kylie Cracknell, Staff Writer
March 30, 2016
Filed under Opinion
As the list of presidential candidates begins to dwindle down, talk about who the nominees will choose as their running mates is buzzing. There have been many names thrown out by political analysts and experts including South...
Leah Power, Staff Writer
March 30, 2016
Filed under Opinion
"Hey baby, come over here for a second."
"Nice tits Blondie."
"Girl, what I'd do to you."
That's what I heard while I walked down the street in Charleston, S.C. While I’m aware that there are many problems in the world,...
Lauren Owens, Content Editor
March 30, 2016
Filed under Opinion
In the rush to do more, be more and see more, I find that we lose our sense of contentment with the simple things in life.
During the weeks leading up to spring break, I found myself thinking over and over that I would be okay...
Anna Jackson, Staff Writer
March 30, 2016
Filed under Opinion
At last semester’s Pee Dee Fiction and Poetry Festival, I bought the book “What We Saw” because I had enjoyed reading another novel by Aaron Hartzler, “Rapture Practice.” As I expected, Hartzler and “What We Saw”...