There are many holidays celebrated in the United States, like Christmas and Hanukkah, but not much is said about a less celebrated holiday.
Kwanzaa, created by Maulana Karenga in 1966, celebrates many...
I woke up Saturday morning to snow galore. Beautiful, light, fluffy white snowflakes delicately falling from the sky. I was so excited. Then I tried to get in my car.
After using a mop, a broom, a cup...
As the Christmas season approaches, things start to get really hectic around the city of Evansville. Christmas break means finals for students, shopping for families and traveling to see relatives. In...
In the fall of 2008, I stepped onto this campus unsure of what awaited me in the next journey in life.
Like many, my journey to an undergraduate degree has taken a little more time - five and a half years...
This is the beginning of my new column, endearingly titled “Jessie-isms.” The Shield’s sports editor adopted this term for my tweets. He says most of them are only something I could say. So, out...
USI has a ton of student activities around campus. Students can join clubs, participate in athletic intramural sports, or even join leadership programs to help further USI’s development.
Yet, I am...
Christmas is the most ridiculous holiday Americans celebrate.
Every December, across the United States, herds of consumers frazzle themselves with all-night shopping and brutal brawls, all to save a...
Now, I could talk about HJR-6, or about how the university and their elected board has been unable to reach a consensus thus far, but I won’t.
Instead, I would like to focus on the students who have...
If there’s one thing that can be said is unique about USI, it's that we don’t have a lot of traditions. Let’s think about it. Indiana University has the Little 5 where college students prep for days...
It seems that in recent years, Black Friday has been invading Thanksgiving Thursday.
Originally, I didn’t think the idea was harmful. There were some places opening at midnight, and I thought that...
There is a stigma, even today, about what feminism is and who can or cannot be one.
People think feminists are hairy arm-pitted women,who hate men, and are radicals that are so strict about women’s...
