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Change needs to come

Columnist November 24, 2014

Nearly three weeks have passed since the Nov. 4th Election Day, and liberal democrats in Kansas are still just as bitter.As the GOP took control of both chambers of Congress, the trying grumbles of those...

‘Dumb & Dumber To’ is just plain dumb

Movie Reviewer November 20, 2014

There was an image floating around the Internet recently that showed a calendar of all the superhero movies we’ll see in the next decade or so.While the idea was to drum up excitement, it also showed...

Paulo’s perfect playlist: Revisiting ‘Band on the Run’

Album Reviewer November 20, 2014

I will never attend a show akin to the one Paul McCartney put on in Kansas City.The spectacle, the lights and the energy only a former member of the Beatles could extrude delighted the attendants in a...

Letter from the student body president: On Hippodrome

Student Body President November 19, 2014

The purpose of this article is to communicate my thoughts on the university’s longest running student tradition and to offer my vision for the event in years to come.Hippodrome is the oldest campus tradition,...

Doug Gottlieb: CBS personality, ‘college basketball expert’

Sports Editor November 19, 2014

Let me start off by saying I can’t believe I’m writing this column.To give Doug Gottlieb any attention whatsoever is the wrong thing to do. My only advice is that you don’t listen to his show and...

Campus safety more than ‘campus’

Managing Editor November 19, 2014

Wichita State hosted a forum along with Wichita Police to address the sexual assault, beating and burning of a woman at Fairmount Park last week, along with other area crimes. While some community members...

How to speak British

Staff Reporter November 17, 2014

As a person who is majoring in English and minoring in German, it is safe to say that I love languages. One of my favorite things about being in England thus far has been hearing all of the different terms...

No Child Left Behind: The ruin of American education

Staff Reporter November 17, 2014

When President George W. Bush and members of Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act, they managed to significantly move America back in terms of educational improvement.The act was presented as one...

Washington D.C.: A journalism student’s reflection

Editor-in-Chief November 13, 2014

It’s not every day I can say I visited a national news outlet, let alone several in a span of a few days.Yet, I did just that thanks to a trip to Washington D.C. over the course of last week. Six Elliott...

Large ambitions of ‘Intersellar’ hide flaws

Movie Reviewer November 13, 2014

Have you seen those car commercials where Matthew McConaughey whispers pseudo-philosophical nonsense that has little to do with cars?It’s a hilariously ostentatious ad campaign that, in a weird way,...

Paulo’s Perfect Playlist: My top 6 classic rock epics

Album Reviewer November 13, 2014

As these cold winds of winter smothered me with their icy clutch, I decided to seclude myself in my apartment.The sole idea of heat seemed a distant dream or a legend from a different era.Throughout this...

Put Jamar Howard in the Shocker Sports Hall of Fame

Sports Editor November 12, 2014

There are 28 men’s basketball players in Wichita State’s Pizza Hut Shocker Sports Hall of Fame. There are a few players that are not in the coveted Hall, but one of them has a strong case for an induction...

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