As I walked from the library to class today, I was accosted by multiple individuals attempting to get me to support their causes or listen to what each had to say. I did my best to ignore them all, finding...
Editor’s Note: In honor of National Child Abuse Prevention Month, Staff Writer Meredith Harris will give personal accounts of abuse and how to help prevent child abuse.
He pinned my arms down as I struggled...
According to an article on BusinessInsider.com, Evansville has been ranked eighth on “The 11 Most Miserable Cities in America.”
This is way more disappointing that the obesity and the meth labs we’re...
Two teams divided by a line on the floor, each individual equipped with a rubber ball to throw at opposing members, the aim being to eliminate the other team’s players while trying not to be eliminated...
Dodgeball – the word I feared more than anything when I walked into my elementary school gym. And I’m positive I’m not the only one.
I rarely ever tried actually dodging what was coming at me. When...
In the February 7 issue of The Shield, my fellow staff members reported “USI guest director arrested for cocaine, marijuana possession” about Gerald McIntyre.
The guest director received three grams...
If you have been reading The Shield lately, I’m sure you are familiar with the newest technological innovation that the university is trying out - iPads.
Students are now able to check out these fun...
The library just got 40 iPads for student to check out for a week at a time. Congratulations - the building that promotes studying just gave students a tool to procrastinate even more than we already do.
A...
A few weeks ago, the city of Evansville welcomed the Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) tournament to the Ford Center for the first time in the building’s brief two-year history. I was excited, recalling...
If you think sexism isn’t evident in daily life, take a few seconds to look at at the social media responses to the Steubenville rape trial verdict.
The case involved two boys, 16 and 17, who raped,...
Editor’s note: This letter is in response to a letter written to the Courier & Press about the changing University Core Curriculum at USI. The letter stated that the new list of “required courses”...
Spring Break is when students travel to the promised lands known as Panama and Mexico to get so drunk they forget everything they have been taught this semester.
Take it easy, guys. Spring Break is...
