Written by Dylan Deppe. Media by John Freeman. There’s been an awakening.  Have you felt it?  There’s a bunch of new Star Wars movies that are going to keep coming out.  There’s something more: you may have missed all the other ones.  “I think it’s stupid, and I don’t really care [about watching them]” is what I’ve heard multiple people on campus either say or imply.  Star Wars movies have had (and still d ...

Written by Allison Perry, Media by Tawnie Kozora.   All throughout my life as a student, I have always taken my lunchbox to school. From kindergarten to senior year, if I didn’t like what was being served I would take my lunch. As a college student, though, packing a lunchbox is the best scenario because it saves me money and time. Packing a lunchbox also allows me to choose healthier options. At the a ...

Written by Leanna Westerhof. Media by John Freeman. Trump is already making waves in his first couple weeks of assuming the U.S. presidency. One of those waves, or maybe a tidal wave would be a more accurate description, is his immigration ban. Quickly dubbed as the “Muslim Ban” human rights activists, advocate groups, and Democrats are expressing their displeasure. His ban, signed January 27, affects citiz ...

Written by Allison Perry. DM by Tawnie Kozora. Have you ever wanted to visit a coffee shop where you can order drinks made with homemade syrups, smoothies made with real fruit, or even homemade sodas? If so, Shimoji Coffee in Vandalia, Illinois is the place to go. Shimoji has been open since late September of 2016. I visited the drive-through coffee shop on the very first day it was open and literally went ...

Written by Mandy Pennington. Media by Tawnie Kozora. Friends with a Music Major? You’ll be okay. There are many personality types and one of life’s greatest struggles is finding a way to get along with all of them. When someone has different interests and passions than you, how do you relate to them? I am here to advise you on how to get along with an especially odd group: music majors. People who have chos ...

Written by Dylan Deppe. Media by John Freeman. Donald Trump is definitely a polarizing figure and it seems he never stops coming up with comically-facetious, cynical, strange, confounded, and creative ways to get attention and/or divide people. But there is a chance that he may have outdone himself on his first day on the job. For those of you not in the know, a certain portion of President Trump’s inaugura ...

Written and Media by Baylen Whitfield. Genres and categories of media are defined and specified for important and understandable reasons. Creating guidelines to define and separate genres helps to understand aspects of art forms, allows them to be identifiable, and limits confusion amongst viewers. For example, jazz has reasons it’s not considered heavy metal, and romantic comedies include specifics that se ...

Written and Media by Baylen Whitfield.   Women’s breasts and bodies are used in media all the time to promote and sell things from burgers and beer to certain clothes and magazines. Many of the commercials, billboards, magazines, music videos, and other advertisements, used for marketing and to promote sales by objectifying the female anatomy, have utilized female’s bodies, breasts in particular, so mu ...

Written by Allison Perry. Media by Rachel Koehnemann. A healthy relationship is built on trust, respect, communication, compromise, and love. Answer these questions if you are missing some of those characteristics in your relationship: Do you find yourself in an argument with your partner every day? Does your partner restrict you from doing certain things or visiting friends and family? Does your partner th ...

Written by Johnathon Goodenow. Media by Rachel Koehnemann. According to the institute for college access and success, Greenville College students who graduated in 2015 had an average of $28,452 of student loan debt. While that number is not out of the ordinary for colleges in Illinois today, it is certainly a much larger number than it has been in the past. A statistic CNN posted in 2002 stated, “In 1999-20 ...