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Marshall Vintage Blows up on Social Media

Marshall Vintage Blows up on Social Media

Xena Bunton, Reporter September 22, 2020

Marshall Vintage, co-created by a Marshall alumni couple, launched their website this fall semester after a high demand from Marshall fans for vintage university gear. Former Marshall football player,...

For No.25 Marshall Bye-Week...Part Two

For No.25 Marshall Bye-Week…Part Two

Taylor Huddleston, Sports Editor September 22, 2020

Now as a nationally ranked team, the No. 25 Marshall University Thundering Herd will face yet another early bye-week due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. This is the second bye-week for Marshall. The...

Redshirt senior linebacker Tavante Beckett celebrated a defensive play against Eastern Kentucky.

No. 23 Appalachian State to visit Huntington

Taylor Huddleston, Sports Editor September 15, 2020

The Marshall University Thundering Herd football team is coming off an early bye-week as it prepares to take on the Appalachian State Mountaineers on Saturday. In its first game of the season, the Herd...

EDITORIAL: High-speed broadband should be a public utility

September 15, 2020

The onset and continuation of the coronavirus pandemic have relentlessly exposed now-unmistakable flaws in the social fabric and critical infrastructure of states and towns across the U.S. In West Virginia,...

W.Va. internet speeds worsening throughout pandemic

W.Va. internet speeds worsening throughout pandemic

Douglas Harding, Executive Editor September 15, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic and resulting changes to society have forced millions of Americans to begin working from home—whether as a profession or for education—an increasing reliance upon a stable,...

EDITORIAL: We deserve better than this

EDITORIAL: We deserve better than this

September 8, 2020

They say the stench of dying empires wreaks of desolation, death and despair. In the face of a torn and tattered social fabric which has been ripped apart and exposed entirely throughout the coronavirus...

Natalie Cline, Cathy Kunkel, Hilary Turner, Paula Jean Swearengin

W.Va. women make Democratic Party history

Douglas Harding and Sequoia Ware September 8, 2020

By DOUGLAS HARDING and SEQUOIA WARE EXECUTIVE EDITOR and reporter For the first time in the state’s history, each of the Democratic Party’s nominees for U.S. Congress from West Virginia are women. “West...

Redshirt freshman quarterback Grant Wells focused on making a play against the Colonels.

Herd faces early bye-week, prepares for Appalachian State

Taylor Huddleston, Sports Editor September 8, 2020

Following its season home opening win against the Eastern Kentucky Colonels, the Marshall University football team is preparing for its next opponent, Appalachian State. However, the Herd will have...

A popup COVID-19 test has been set up on the plaza of Marshall's campus.

New phase of coronavirus testing underway

Douglas Harding, Executive Editor September 8, 2020

Beginning this week, Marshall University will test about 60 randomly selected students, staff and faculty members for coronavirus each weekday until Nov. 20, per information released by the university...

Locals march to protest police brutality, racism

Locals march to protest police brutality, racism

Douglas Harding, Executive Editor September 4, 2020

Dozens of protestors marched through Huntington Sunday—stopping to demonstrate at the Huntington Police Department—outraged by the viral video of a recent incident showing police officers in Kenosha,...

COLUMN: Importance of Minority Representation in Media

COLUMN: Importance of Minority Representation in Media

Isabella Robinson, News Editor September 1, 2020

I was recently presented with the information that, to date, there are no Black centered West Virginia news or media publications, one Black editor for a mainstream WV news publication, and no Black reporters...

Eugene V. Debs, member of the Socialist Party of the USA and presidential candidate, speaks to members of the worker’s union on Aug. 17, 1912, at an unknown location in the USA.

EDITORIAL: The essence of united labor

September 1, 2020

As Labor Day approaches, let us remember not only to celebrate the resilience and bravery of the American working class (and of those around the world), but also to recognize the reasons we understand...

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