By Carter James, Editor in chief Holiday season starts Nov 1. It’s just what we’re used to at this point. The stores are already decked out with trimmings and trees. Car commercials are starting to take place at the same nice house with the same driveway. The most…
Opinion: Anchor Splash highlights lingering inequality
A group of Greek women compete in synchronized swimming, in conservative athletic wear. Photo by Jasmyne Ray. As a prospective freshman, one quality that attracted me to the University of Montevallo was that it seemed…
Halloween: More fun than evil
A duo portray evil and good as a demon and an angel. Photo by Jennifer Williams. Blood, guts, cleavage and tiaras are all things people are sure to see on Halloween night. Many people…
Misconceptions treated as a reality
“I don’t like you like that, but I still want to be friends.” This is the oft repeated sentence that precedes the dreaded utterance of “you’ve been friendzoned.” The friendzone, however, does not actually exist.…
A reality dismissed for its misconceptions: The friend…
"Unrequited love" is a phrase and theme run rampant in centuries' worth of literature, and the updated terminology for this scenario of affections unreturned is the friend zone. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the…
Purple PJ party
The music curved through my ears as I got closer to the well-known Tavern. The outfits got skimpier and wilder as soon as the doors opened, wafting out the smell of cigarettes and beer in…
Violence out of control
Indiana, Pennsylvania and Texas have thousands of miles and differences between them. But during the week of Jan. 20 they all experienced the same tragedies. Gun shots. Running. Hiding. Lockdowns. How could three campuses so…
He loves me, he loves me not: Valentine’s…
Valentine’s Day has been celebrated since medieval times when people believed that on Feb. 14 “birds select[ed] their mates.” Read More






