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Opinion: Why MTSU needs to offer health care coverage to graduate assistants

Opinion: Why MTSU needs to offer health care coverage to graduate assistants

Sidelines April 16, 2018

Photo by Andrew Wigdor / MTSU Sidelines Archive Story by Amy Harris-Aber / Contributing Writer It's no secret that MTSU has set its sights on becoming a major player when it comes to research. Our university...

Opinion: Why accurate representation of autism is so important in film, TV

Opinion: Why accurate representation of autism is so important in film, TV

Sidelines April 2, 2018

Photo courtesy of Variety Story by Dakota Green / Contributing Writer  It's April 2, which means that it is once again Autism Awareness Day. In honor of the annual and internationally recognized observance,...

Face the Facts: Why 'March For Our Lives' had to be helmed by shooting survivors

Face the Facts: Why ‘March For Our Lives’ had to be helmed by shooting survivors

Angele Latham | Editor In Chief March 29, 2018

Photo courtesy of Associated Press Story by Cody Uhls / Contributing Writer It had to be kids. But not just any kids. Survivors. Adults couldn’t have organized a march about kids and school shootings...

Opinion: Why violence in video games isn't the real issue

Opinion: Why violence in video games isn’t the real issue

Sidelines March 19, 2018

Photo courtesy of Variety Story by Lucas Kautzky / Contributing Writer On Thursday, March 8, Donald Trump gathered representatives from the Entertainment Software Association, Parents Television Council...

'We're not afraid': MTSU student witnesses Spain's first nationwide feminist strike

‘We’re not afraid’: MTSU student witnesses Spain’s first nationwide feminist strike

CIM Digital March 13, 2018

Photos by Alexis Marshall / MTSU Sidelines Class was cancelled Thursday for History and Models of Journalism at the University of Malaga in southern Spain. My instructor, Laura Lopez, explained in the...

Opinion: Keep your prayers, I want action

Opinion: Keep your prayers, I want action

Sidelines February 19, 2018

It's been several days since the deadly shooting that occurred at Douglas High School in Florida. Since then, a prayer for healing was sent out to the victims and those affected by the massacre, but many...

Table Talk: Goodness Gracious lives up to name

Table Talk: Goodness Gracious lives up to name

Sidelines November 12, 2017

To be abundantly clear: I am in no way a breakfast person. There’s an exchange that happens in “Parks and Recreation” between Leslie and Ron; Leslie asks, in a shocked voice, “Why would anybody...

Face the Facts: Why, how should America decide the fate of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl?

Face the Facts: Why, how should America decide the fate of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl?

Sidelines November 1, 2017

Photo courtesy of Fox News Story by Cody Uhls / Contributing Writer Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl of the U.S. Army pleaded guilty at his trial for walking off his base in Afghanistan in 2009. Now he’s waiting...

'White Lives Matter' rally held in Shelbyville on Saturday, met with counter-protestors

‘White Lives Matter’ rally held in Shelbyville on Saturday, met with counter-protestors

Sidelines October 29, 2017

Photo by Brinley Hineman / MTSU Sidelines Story by Steve Barnum / Reporter, Anthony Merriweather / Reporter and Brinley Hineman / Editor-in-Chief Hundreds gathered in Shelbyville, Tenn. on Saturday to...

Photos: White nationalist groups hold rally in Shelbyville

Photos: White nationalist groups hold rally in Shelbyville

Sidelines October 28, 2017

Photos by Brinley Hineman and Anthony Merriweather / MTSU Sidelines Story by Brinley Hineman / Editor-in-Chief White nationalist groups held rallies in both Shelbyville and Murfreesboro on Saturday to...

Stylish hijabs make a fashion statement on MTSU campus, beyond

Stylish hijabs make a fashion statement on MTSU campus, beyond

Sidelines October 27, 2017

Graphic by Abigail Potter / MTSU Sidelines Story by Imaan Malik / Contributing Writer In July 2014, DKNY released a Ramadan collection designed specifically for Muslim women. Two months later, rising...

MTSU Geosciences professors conduct environmental research despite governmental deprioritization of ecological issues

MTSU Geosciences professors conduct environmental research despite governmental deprioritization of ecological issues

Sidelines October 25, 2017

Graphic by Abigail Potter / MTSU Sidelines Story by Connor Burnard  President Donald J. Trump’s proposed budget for 2018 included budget cuts of 30 percent for the EPA and 22 percent for the USDA,...

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