Registration as a first-semester senior was bittersweet. It felt like the beginning of the end of my time at the university. In a way, I suppose it was.
I’m grateful to my advisers here at the university...
The Shield is in a semester of positive transition.
After a year of operating under a pandemic, The Shield has recently made changes and is looking at a bright future.
Since the start of the pandemic,...
The Shield is composed of students. Students taking classes at the university. Students who are subject to countless Zoom calls. Students that are tired of online homework. Students that are over the constant...
The Shield will have a new Editor-in-Chief.
Starting Friday, Kami Minnich will take over as the new Editor-in-Chief. She will be replacing Rhonda Wheeler, who began the academic school year as EIC.
Wheeler...
We’re almost done with the Fall Semester.
We are almost done with our first full semester since COVID-19 hit. While last semester was full of surprises,this semester still proved to be a learning...
In about three weeks, most of us will be going home for Thanksgiving break.
I know that I am personally worried about being around family members because of the pandemic. The last thing I would want...
We are living in weird, stressful times.
We are in the middle of a pandemic, civil unrest and a presidential election that has the potential to change everything.
A study from the American Psychological...
Midterms are approaching fast and with no fall break, students may be having a hard time relaxing.
This is a very anxiety-inducing time and it’s difficult to focus on classes and studying when there’s...
One of the things I missed most about campus was being around my friends.
Even though we’re back on campus, we should still practice social distancing whenever possible.
Some fun things you...
Universities around Indiana created a COVID dashboard so the campus and the community can keep up to date about the number of cases on campus.
The issue is by the time the universities update the dashboards,...
Nik Cunningham, Publications Editor
• September 14, 2020
Everyone is wound up so tightly and we’re not even halfway through the semester. There are a lot of things to worry about: homework, classes, jobs, and COVID-19, but everyone has to relax eventually,...
2020 has been a weird, stressful year to say the very least.
In March we went on spring break not realizing the only time we would be back on campus was to move out.
Now, we’re back and balancing...
