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Quality over quantity: making time for your significant other

Kara McIntyre March 2, 2016

How did you transition your priorities from your best friend to your significant other?Frank: Well my priorities did not fully transition from my best friend to my girlfriend. Jeff (my best friend) understands...

Andrea Mendoza

Women can define their own paths

Andrea Mendoza Lespron February 24, 2016

As a woman in the 21st century, I believed we could easily choose who and what we wanted to be. However, suddenly, the words gender and sex started having a whole different meaning. They were not only...

Rachel Johnson

Benefits outweigh pitfalls of working with your significant other

Rachel Johnson February 24, 2016

Francisco Martinez, photographer at The Wichitan and criminal justice junior, and Rachel Johnson, photo editor at The Wichitan and mass communication sophomore, have been in a relationship for nearly a...

Column: The thing about love

The Wichitan February 19, 2016

Why do we continually hurt ourselves by choosing people that make us feel small and invalidate our feelings? We go back to the same people that wrecked our hearts and crushed it into pieces, with the hope...

Graphic by Dewey Cooper.

First 100 days – the measure of a president

Samuel Sutton February 10, 2016

I have come to a conclusion that the first 100 days are what dictates a president. If a president doesn't do anything really noteworthy and productive within those days, then they're a "bad president."...

Bernie Sanders: The peoples choice

Bernie Sanders: The people’s choice

Dewey Cooper February 10, 2016

Out of the 11 remaining presidential candidates – both Republican and Democrat – only one is the real voice of the people: Bernie Sanders, the democratic socialist nominee from Vermont.Bernie has his...

Africa, America: Things are not always what they seem

The Wichitan February 5, 2016

Let’s take it back to August 2013, for a second. Aug. 13, to be exact. My first day in the United States of America. I cannot put into words how excited I was to be here.I  heard so many great things...

I’m black. This will not be a place I call home.

The Wichitan January 27, 2016

I will lose out on job opportunities. I will be called hurtful names, especially since I am a black, dark-skinned woman. People will suspect I want to steal from them and they will hold onto their purses...

Yes I am a feminist

Wadzanai Dzvurumi December 8, 2015

Yes, I am a feminist. No, I do not detest men, but I simply do not want to live in a world where women are constantly oppressed and denied even the most basic rights. We live in a world where women...

University President: Talk to me

University President: Talk to me

Kharmyn Lewis November 19, 2015

Before I committed to attend MSU, I went to a Mustangs Rally. There were seniors from across the country who were curious as to what MSU had to offer; however, I already had done my research about the...

It’s not all in your head

Kara McIntyre November 11, 2015

I've had depression since I was in middle school, so I've become almost a professional at dealing with the waves of emotion it brings (kind of morbid, I know). But this semester, it got to the point where...

‘We have a huge life ahead of us’

Wadzanai Dzvurumi November 7, 2015

I recently turned 21, and I took a moment to reflect back on my life. The past year, for me, has been a year of intense growth with trials and tribulations. Despite the tears, disappointments and losses,...

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