Message from 2021-2022 Editorial Staff:
The first issue of The Spartan Shield was published Oct. 15, 1968. The Shield Staff is celebrating The Shield's 53rd birthday by digitally republishing stories...
“How much is life worth?” This is the ringing question in Netflix’s new movie “Worth.”
“Worth” is the trending Netflix original based on the true story of lawyer Kenneth Feinberg. Feinberg...
A wall displayed the memorialized and young faces of people in military uniform, their photos surrounded by post-it notes covered in hand-written messages picked up from surrounding tables next to the...
When the planes slammed into the Twin Towers 15 years ago, the country was at a standstill.
Why does it take tragedy for us to come together as people, believe in God or even realize just how precious life is?
Thursday marked the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed 3,000 people. Our readers and current Shield staff remember where they were when they heard the news.
Everyone who drove onto USI's campus from the Lloyd Expressway Thursday morning was greeted by the American flag, waving from the ladder of a Perry Township firetruck.
Everyone who entered USI’s campus from the Lloyd Expressway Wednesday morning was greeted by an American flag waving above the overpass from the ladder of a fire truck parked on University Boulevard.
Perry...
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