OPINION


11/3/2015, 1:12pm

The real debate: Are leggings pants?

They have been around since 1957, when Audrey Hepburn made them famous in the musical film “Funny Face,” according to InStyle, and for years they have been stirring up controversial conversations. Leggings.


11/2/2015, 8:47pm

Ship speaks

   What do Shippensburg University students think about gun control in the United States?


11/2/2015, 8:29pm

Where is your PHEAA?

Were you counting on that refund to pay for books, rent and maybe food? So was I, and so were thousands of other college students in Pennsylvania.


10/26/2015, 7:54pm

Diversity and the celebration of Halloween

A New Jersey elementary school is canceling Halloween festivities, not because of scary costumes or fear of hundreds of sugar-hyped kids, but because of “diversity reasons.” Seth Boyden Elementary School is canceling all in-school celebrations for Friday.


10/19/2015, 9:03pm

The fight against prayer in public schools

While public schools worry about problems ranging from spending budgets and SAT scores, to gun violence and mass shootings, another kind of war is being waged in the halls of American schools: The war on public prayer. Texas high school football coach Joe Kennedy recently made national news because of his prayerful habits both pregame and post-game.


10/14/2015, 6:06pm

Jailbreak: thousands of prisoners to be released in America

Do not panic, thousands of prisoners did not escape their cells. What is happening, or rather, what is going to happen, is that the federal government is allowing for the early release of nearly 6,000 prisoners, starting at the end of October. These prisoners are termed “non-violent drug offenders,” according to the Washington Post.


10/6/2015, 1:39pm

Is Kony worth hunting down?

Remember Joseph Kony? Perhaps the catchphrase “KONY 2012” will ring a bell. The African warlord and leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army is still at large.