By Cady Inabinett, Editor in chief When did Montevallo become so dead in such a specific way? What I mean by that, is when did people stop wanting to do things outside of just going…
Preservation versus remastering of film
Photo from Star Wars: A New Hope During the 1980’s there was a significant backlash against the colorization of black and white films. Colorization was a practice that was popularized by Ted Turner, who defended his company’s actions…
Letter from the SGA President
Dear Montevallo Falcons, I am so excited to have you all back this Fall semester! My name is Thomas Dillard, and I am a Junior Business major here at Montevallo. I am currently serving as…
Letter from the editor
Dear Reader, Since March, we have faced personal and professional challenges that we never would have expected. The last several months have really left us all with certain uneasiness. For college students, nervousness about our…
There’s Nothing More American than a Protest
The March on Washington, 1963. Photo from National Archives Catalog/Rowland Scherman. What does it mean to be a patriot? When Colin Kaepernick and other athletes chose to kneel during the national anthem, it attracted anger…
Peace and Injustice Cannot Coexist
Photo by Elizabeth Flores of Star Tribune via AP "Black people need some peace, white people need some peace, and we're gonna have to fight, we're gonna have to struggle, we're gonna have to struggle…
Positives of Quarantine
The history-making present that we’re all living through is mainly characterized as terrifying and lonely. While we are living with a sense of fear for our immunocompromised and elderly loved ones, and lacking our normal…
You don’t have to be hot
Blogger Erin McKean has a quote about beauty that I have been absorbing and realizing since I first heard it in middle school. “You Don’t Have to Be Pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to…