Don’t get it twisted, respect that: In defense of fangirls

Codi Mohr, Executive Editor

April 21, 2015

When people ask me about my life plans or career goals, I have one answer: I’m going to fangirl professionally. As a potentially aspiring entertainment journalist (was that vague enough?), my dream job is to write about all the things I’m overly obsessed with every day. It’s a fairly extensi...

Tags: CODINUNDRUM, fangirls, one direction, Twitter

Save it for the campaign

Editorial

April 12, 2015

Filed under OPINION

Hillary Clinton announced her 2016 presidential campaign Sunday and (surprise!) the backlash and criticism started rolling in within hours. Potential opponents to Hilary, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush took to Twitter to express their lack of faith in Clinton as a president...

Tags: controversy, feminism, Hillary Clinton, logo, presidential campaign, social media, Twitter

Campus controversy and biased news

Jocelyn Gibson, Managing Editor

April 8, 2015

Filed under COLUMN, FEMINIST THURSDAY, OPINION

Controversy creeps up on campus in the most interesting ways sometimes. All it took was a poster about privilege in the freshman dorm hung by the resident adviser of that floor to get an entire article on the Campus Reform website denouncing the poster and its creator. Because this is a feminist-themed c...

Tags: bias, Column, controversy, feminism, journalism, Marshall, privilege, social media, Twitter

Tweet a joke, the trolls shall come

Megan Osborne, Life! Editor

April 6, 2015

Filed under COLUMN, OPINION

I decided to book myself a hair appointment the other day. I noticed on the lovely user-friendly service selection application the salon uses that a “women’s cut and style” was $30 and a “men’s cut” was $15. And I thought “Aw man, all I really want is a trim.” For the record, I totally understan...

Tags: Column, controversy, feminism, social media, trolls, Twitter

#BlackOutDay beautifies social media

Editorial

March 11, 2015

Filed under OPINION

Tumblr, Instagram, Twitter and beyond exploded Friday with images of beautiful faces. The first ever #BlackOutDay featured millions of black selfies of all shades, sizes and genders taking over social media to, as creator T’von explains, “celebrate the beauty of Blackness.” After tiring of only seeing th...

Tags: #BlackOutDay, hashtags, race, social media, Twitter

#MeganMusicMonday: 8-tracks to character limits

Megan Osborne, Life! Editor

March 2, 2015

Filed under COLUMN, MEGAN MUSIC MONDAY, OPINION

February was an interesting time in the music world – Drake, Jack Ü and Big Sean all dropped new albums, and they’re all pretty freakin’ good (coming from someone who isn’t up to speed on the hip-hop scene). Of course these aren’t the only noteworthy albums or newsworthy happenings in the m...

Tags: #MeganMusicMonday, albums, evolution of music, festivals, music, social media, Spotify, Twitter