By Carter James, Sarah Turner, and Luke Del Rosario With a new year comes news movies to watch and tv shows obsess over weekly. There’s a wide variety of films and television that is coming out this year.…
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…
OP-ED: Veganism – a moral imperative?
By Hannah Irvin People tend to explore a vegan diet or lifestyle for one of three reasons: health, sustainability, or ethics. The documentaries “The Game Changers,” “Forks over Knives” and “What the Health” demonstrate the…