By Ashley FarnieMusic Journalist With the onset of autumn and the changing of the leaves on the trees, the Texas weather invites us to sit outside under the sun to enjoy the warm breeze. Put your headphones in and sit … Continue reading Songs to Study to: A Playlist
by Andrea MauWeb Content Contributor Every day we are producing more trash than we can dispose of. We mitigate this environmental crisis with recycling, but the truth is much more should and can be done to repair the planet or … Continue reading Beginner’s Steps to Going Green
By Anna KeyserMusic Journalist In the atmosphere that we are all living in right now, I usually turn to music to keep my thoughts at ease. I want to share with you some of the albums that make me feel … Continue reading Three Albums That Help Me Get Through
By Tiger ShiWeb Content Contributor Every holiday meal is obligated to include a dessert. For this season, I would like to introduce this dessert I have been trying to make for a year now: the Molten Lava Cake. This past … Continue reading Holiday Dessert: the Molten Chocolate Lava Cake
By Andrea MauWeb Content Contributor The Theatre Department is hosting a cans and coats drive for the Hays-Cadwell County Women’s Center (HCWC). The HCWC is a local organization that has been dedicated to women’s health and safety since 1973. This … Continue reading Cans and Coats for Hays-Cadwell Women’s Center
By Andrea MauWeb Content Contributor November’s Common Experience event features the distinguished guest speaker John Quiñones. Quiñones is a native Texan from San Antonio and attended Texas State briefly while acquiring his undergraduate degree in Mass Communications at St Mary’s. Since his humble beginnings as a cherry-picker, Quiñones took … Continue reading Common Experience Distinguished Speaker: John Quiñones
By Nicholas BradySports Reporter The Texas State Bobcats got their second win of the season led by a record-setting performance from quarterback Brady McBride. McBride started at quarterback for the first time since the Louisiana Lafayette game replacing Tyler Vitt. McBride completed … Continue reading Bobcats Win in Final Seconds
By Gabriela SolisMusic Journalist Released right at the cusp of 2005, First Impressions of Earth is rock band The Strokes’ third studio album. Considering this album single-handedly kicked off my angsty teen years, I can’t help but hold First Impressions … Continue reading The Strokes: First Impressions of Earth Review
By Paige GreeneWeb Content Assistant Manager Throughout history, there have been many influential men who have changed the world. Below are four men that have thought to have changed the world, their field or people. Johannes Gutenberg Gutenberg (1400-1468) was … Continue reading Influential Men in History
By Jernice KelleyWeb Content Contributor International Men’s Day (IMD) was initiated by Thomas Oaster, the director of the Missouri Center for Men’s Studies, in 1992, although it was formed a year earlier. However, calls for an International Men’s Day have … Continue reading Stopping the Stigma: International Men’s Day
By Andrea MauWeb Content Contributor There tends to be a focus on women’s health purely because of the array of controversial healthcare needs which affect them almost exclusively, but this often overshadows the health issues men face today. The standard … Continue reading The Importance of Men’s Health
By Tiger ShiWeb Content Contributor Mass Comm. Week was last week and for International Men’s Day; I would like to thank three special journalists that made my studies in journalism possible. They are John Quinones of ABC News, Lester Holt … Continue reading My Favorite Journalists
By Paige GreeneWeb Content Assistant Manager Have you ever felt your phone, smartwatch or tablet vibrate but there was no notification? This is an increasingly common phenomenon that experts are calling Phantom Vibration Syndrome. Robert Rosenberger, assistant professor of Philosophy … Continue reading Do You Experience Phantom Vibration Syndrome?
By Ally BolenderNews Content Manager John Hernandez graduated from Texas State University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2018. Since then, he has worked as a fellow and research assistant at Minnesota Public Radio and APM Reports and is most … Continue reading Mass Comm Week 2020: John Hernandez and his Advice to Students
By Tiger ShiWeb Content Contributor Youth Voters! It is time to make an important decision. This applies in case y’all have not voted during early voting. There are a lot of races in this election cycle. From local elections to … Continue reading The Next Four Years
By Ally BolenderWeb Content Assistant Manager and News Content Manager As children, the idea of ghosts and spooky-beings probably sat on a lot of our minds. During those nights as a kid when I was tossing-and-turning, scared to open my … Continue reading My Childhood Home was Haunted—and Here are the Stories
By Timia CobbWeb Content Assistant Manager My grandmother was always religious. Her belief in God was never translated correctly to me. I believed God to be an entity that watched you at all times and granted your wishes if he … Continue reading A Brief Take on Witchcraft and Evil
By Andrea MauWeb Content Contributor Kuro Tawil is a 2012 graduate from Texas State and is now a part of the Texas State Alumni Association. Tawil was a communications major while attending college and shortly after graduation took a backpacking … Continue reading Alumni Rising Star: Kuro Tawil
By Piper Blake and Andrea MauWeb Content Manager and Web Content Contributor Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez is not just an athlete, but an advocate for mental health and an inspiration to her culture and the world. She seeks to connect with everyone she meets and to be able to … Continue reading Laurie Hernandez: Common Experience Insight Series
By Nicholas BradySports Reporter The Texas State Bobcats fell to 1-6 on Saturday in a blowout loss to #11 BYU in Provo. BYU showed that they are one of the best teams in the country, dominating every aspect of the … Continue reading Bobcats Lose at BYU
