A day in the life: Lacey Grimes
Khirstia Sheffield, Reporter
October 16, 2019
It’s 6 a.m. and while most students are sound asleep, her day has just begun. The sweet and tender voices of small children fill her ears forcing her eyes to partially open to a sun-filled room. She slowly takes in deep breaths as she mentally prepares for a new day full of surprises. Lacey Grimes,...
A day in the life of Jeanette Perry
Madison Davis, Reporter
September 28, 2018
A 5:30 a.m. alarm rings in the start of a busy day for mass communication post baccalaureate Jeanette Perry, university development secretary, who walks down the hall to wake her two children Rhiannon and Meagan. The smell of Café Bustelo coffee fills the air as her morning ensues. Perry rus...
Women can be successful and have a family
Andrea Pedon, Reporter
March 20, 2018
The world that we live in today is subjected to societal gender roles that both men and women tend to follow. In a number of different ways, society has shaped women to believe that to be successful, they have to be single. In the stereotypical "Leave It to Beaver" family, men bring home the mone...
Point guard balances school, work, being father of three
Keanna Jenkins
February 14, 2018
Kids, school, practice, kids, repeat. Criminal justice senior Devante Pullum takes on daily challenges that include parenting his three children and maintaining a relationship with his fiancee, while being a full-time student and basketball point guard. In December of 2012, Pullum had his first...
Societal pressures of motherhood
Leah Bryce
September 27, 2017
I’m 21 years old, nearing the end of my college career and I have been dating the man I plan to marry for two years. For some reason, this is the magic formula that makes every other female in the universe and most married males ask me about children. How many I want, what do I plan to name the...
Advocacy group sponsors diaper drive
Brooke Long
October 7, 2013
Diaper Drive from MWSU Campus Watch on Vimeo. After receiving a call from a mother in desperate need of diapers, Leigh Anne Hope, visiting professor of social work, and members of her child advocacy group Hope Connections decided to hold a diaper drive to fill up diaper banks at local non prof...