Letters from SGA slates: OPTiC
By OPTiC / February 22, 2017Editor's note: The following letter was written by the slates running for the Student Government Association 2017-18 executive board.
Editor's note: The following letter was written by the slates running for the Student Government Association 2017-18 executive board.
Every year, the Daily News has given both slates running for the Student Government Association executive board the opportunity to write to members of the Ball State community, sharing why they should vote for them. This year, both IGNITE and OPTiC took that opportunity. Read their letters here.
It all started with “fake news,” which should not even be called that because it is not news.
Good morning, America. What nation will you be today?
It seems like politics are the only thing people have opinions on anymore. You look on social media or at the news and people are always talking about the latest and greatest (or, perhaps, worst) in government.
Once you land, a sense of dread falls upon you as you are immediately detained. You are not allowed to enter the country.
Indiana may be better known for basketball, but Hoosiers sure love their soccer.
There has been this stereotype placed upon me that because I am a Republican, that I hate women.
Recently Betsy DeVos was nominated by Donald Trump to be the next Secretary of Education. She is simply not qualified.
Mikey Higgins is a junior animation major and creates "Ball State of Mind" for the Daily News.
Learning how to put makeup on can be a challenge when there are many different styles and steps to be done. There are a ridiculous amount of rules to go by if you don’t want to look like a 2010 Kardashian (you know what I’m talking about).
AT ISSUE: For nearly a year, transparency has remained a major issue on campus. Geoffrey S. Mearns was named Ball State’s 17th president today, and with that responsibility, comes a need for a change a from the administration.
"What is the precise moment, in the life of a country, when tyranny takes hold? It rarely happens in an instant; it arrives like twilight, and, at first, the eyes adjust." -Evan Osnos from the New Yorker
Hundreds of thousands of women, men, children, transgender and gender non-conforming people from all around the United States gathered in our nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington.
On Jan. 20 at 12 p.m. I will be walking out of class and heading to the University Green as a mild act of civil disobedience.
Mikey Higgins is a junior animation major and creates "Ball State of Mind" for the Daily News.
It’s about time. There have been plenty of start-up football leagues looking to tap into the popularity of a sport that features televised games almost every night of the week at the peak of the fall.
Mikey Higgins is a junior animation major and creates "Ball State of Mind" for the Daily News.
I knew Greg Hobson ever since I was a baby. He was, by far and bar none, one of the kindest people I have ever met.
Throughout the presidential election, the current President-Elect Donald Trump has promised many changes to, in turn, “make America great again.” One promise in particular, which now manifests itself within Trump’s foreign policy, is reducing the United States’ involvement and funding within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
