Linette Garcia | Staff Writer Walking down GC in the dark with my phone on emergency speed dial and a mini pepper spray keychain in hand— this is the experience faced by numerous women in college. Of course, I want to leisurely walk around MMC at night without anxiously scanning my surroundings for suspicious behavior, […]
Ruth Santana | Staff Writer The FAFSA application history of late disbursement leaves students with no other choice but to wait anxiously to see what will happen this time around. With the myriad of glitches and technical issues, FASFA did not distribute loans and grants to many students on time. This was expected after the […]
Kailey Krantz | Staff Writer It’s known that getting the right amount of sleep improves your mental health and your academic performance. So why is getting a wink of sleep hard to come by – especially as a university student? Researchers suggest college students should get about seven to nine hours of sleep to avoid […]
Sergey Podlesnykh/Staff Writer After getting discharged from Active Duty Military service earlier this year, I’m still adapting to college life. Last semester, I didn’t know “Rate My Professor” existed and chose my classes based solely on my academic preferences. With Spring enrollment underway, I tried picking classes using this wonderful tool, but soon realized it […]
Fernando Fernández/Contributing Writer Throughout the last couple of years, a myth has floated around political circles (specifically, those on the right flank of the political spectrum) that college campuses are imposing liberalism on students. Such beliefs have fueled the rise of youth-centered conservative organizations such as Turning Point USA, which perpetuates the notion that college […]
Ernesto Antunez/Staff Writer It’s an open secret that liberalism and the orthodoxies which accompany it are ascendant everywhere in higher education. This is not the result of some impartial outcome in the “marketplace of ideas” as some on the Left would wish us to think, but a coordinated effort by leftist instructors repeatedly dunking their pupils […]
Brea Jones/Staff Writer College is where we go for education, not exhaustion. Students spend about four or more years here with the goal of coming out with a clear plan for the future. One way this is encouraged is through gaining work experience. Professors and advisors are repeatedly telling us to jump at almost any […]
Jeffrey Steele/ Contributing Writer – Panther Now Many students are paying out of pocket or just being independent and living on their own. Even if students live at home most still work, myself included. Whatever the reason, it still seems to be a running theme. Working while going to school gives you a small taste […]
Gabriella Pinos/ Staff Writer Millennials are delusional, selfish, lazy – and tired as hell. The term, which refers to those born in the 1980s and the 1990s, has become a buzz word generalizing the internet-savvy young adults populating the workforce. If your parents use it, it’s probably in a negative way, as millennials have been […]
LaJayah Blain/ Staff Writer Students all over the world dream of the one day they’ll pack their bags, leave their parents’ house, and take their first step into adulthood by moving away to college. But now that we are all actually college students we realize the story never actually pans out the way we […]
Gabriella Pinos/Staff Writer Independence. It’s a word we associate with freedom, self-sufficiency, confidence, and even fulfillment. These are all things that I, as a college student, lack. If we go by the Merriam Webster definition of the word alone – “not requiring or relying on something else” – I can automatically assume that I am […]
Shannon McMullen/ Staff writer Jordan Wright Women’s and Gender Studies “Look at your Panther Degree Audit. Even if you think you’re doing fine, there might be things that you’re missing that you don’t want to spring up on you the semester you’re graduating,” Juan Valencia Mechanical Engineering […]