U.S. Dissolution of INF Treaty
Emily Stocksdale, Editor-in-Chief
February 26, 2019
On Friday, Feb. 1, President Donald Trump issued a statement announcing that the U.S. was officially withdrawing from a long-time treaty with Russia, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. Signed in December 1987 by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, the treaty p...
Former Portuguese P.M. Antonio Guterres to be U.N. Secretary General
Jack Scott, Staff Writer
October 25, 2016
Filed under News, Showcase, World
On Thursday, Oct. 6, the 15 members of the United Nations Security Council met in New York City and agreed that former Portuguese Prime Minister and former head of the U.N. High Commission for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, should succeed Ban-Ki-moon as the U.N. Secretary General. The choice was reaffirmed b...
Butterfly Effect
Jack Scott, Staff Writer
November 30, 2015
Filed under Literature, Showcase
Suppose that a student drops a pen on the ground while in class. His teacher, a person who obsesses over cleanliness, berates him. She tells him how careless his pen-dropping habits are. The kid is nearly driven to tears, and he leaves class in a foul mood. He spends the rest of the day this way, sparking...
Ukraine Calls for 100,000 Men
Ben Bramblett, Staff Writer
February 9, 2015
Filed under Friday Links, Showcase
Pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine are asking to gain 100,000 men in support of their rebellion against Russia. Leader Alexander Zakharchenko called upon the Ukrainian Military, after about seven mortar fire battles from 31 January 2015, to 1 February 2015, to give him soldiers for his efforts against the Russian military. Zakharchenko said in an interview with BBC...
Friday Links: Update on Crimea
Lacy Hamilton, Editorials Editor
March 21, 2014
Filed under Friday Links, News, Showcase
Crimea, a city in Ukraine, has found itself in the middle of United States and Russian political tension. Crimea joined Ukraine 1954, which was not a problem until 1991 when the Soviet Union split, leaving Crimea in independent Ukraine. The problem is 60% of Crimea’s population of two million identi...
Friday Links: Crisis in Ukraine
Sam Dobrotka, Staff Writer
March 3, 2014
Filed under Friday Links, News, Showcase
On February 22, President Yanukovych of Ukraine was ousted from power by angry demonstrators. Protests among the pro-Russia east were common, none more so than in Crimea, an autonomous region in eastern Ukraine, where there is an ethnic Russian majority. Over the past weekend, unmarked soldiers suspected to be Russian and pro-Russian defense forces surrounded Ukrainian military bases thr...
Opening of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games
Sam Dobrotka, Staff Writer
February 7, 2014
Filed under Friday Links, News, Showcase
The opening ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics began at 11:00 am Eastern Time today in Sochi, Russia; however, NBC will not be airing it on television until 7:30 pm tonight. The ceremony that will kick off the most expensive Olympic Games in history will mainly feature Russian classical music composers ...
Terrorism Threats in Sochi
Sam Dobrotka, Staff Writer
January 27, 2014
Filed under Friday Links, News, Showcase
The 2014 Winter Olympics are to be held in Sochi, a Russian city near the volatile Caucus region. On December 29 and 30, there were two suicide bombings in Volgograd, a Russian city 400 miles northeast of Sochi, killing over 40 people. These attacks raised fears of a terrorist attack on the Olympic Games themselves, as Islamic te...
Anna Anglin, Web Editor
May 7, 2019
Although Jordan Peele’s newest film, “Us” is not the happy ending and easy to understand plot that his previous film “Get Out” was, it presents its own kind of masterpiece...
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