The Visibility of One’s “Ghost”

As COVID-19 continues to produce near empty streets across the country, or at least for safety’s sake one would hope so, one B.S.U. alum has kept pages filled with her poetry. These pages have come together to form the book Ghost of a Girl, now available for all to read. Amber Miller, who graduated from […]

An Open Letter to Whoever Needs It

By: Stefanie Baptista Campus Life Editor Dear Reader, We’re living in kind of a funny time right now, wouldn’t you say? Things and places that we took for granted are no longer at our disposal. We’re being told that we can’t hug or kiss our loved ones because that requires being closer than six feet […]

Spreading Good News

Most of us are stuck at home with limited contact to our friends and family while the repetition of “six feet!” is costing us our sanity. It’s not easy to stay home while bombarded with what feels like constant negativity from pandemic media coverage, social media or the radio. In these difficult times, it can […]

Withdrawal Deadline Extended, Pass/No Pass Under Review

Uncertainty, and for some, panic arose with an obligatory disposition to online learning that awaited students and faculty returning from a longer than anticipated spring break. Revised syllabi, shifted quarantine work environments, and on top of it all, coping with a global crisis has shaken our community. In light of the hardships each of us […]

Quarantine Situation

COVID-19 has affected many of the things we all had planned in our typically busy schedules. The numbers remain extremely high and in order to reduce this increase, we must quarantine in our homes. Quarantining at home has its pros and cons. For me, the first pro of this quarantine is having the ability to […]

My Daily Quarantine Routine

Hi everyone! Today I am going to share with you my daily quarantine routine! Please do not feel like you should be doing this in order to be productive during quarantine; this is just what works for me. We’re experiencing a pandemic for crying out loud! Don’t feel bad about not getting more accomplished. ? […]

Dua Lipa is an Essential Worker

I don’t think there will ever come a time where we become nostalgic for this period we’re currently living in. But should we get to that point, Dua Lipa made that concept just a smidge more fathomable.  While many artists have already postponed their albums weeks and even months ahead of their original release date, […]

The Days Sports Took a Backseat

About a month has passed since the world of sports stopped after the spread of COVID-19. The lasting image in my mind and fans everywhere is the caution tape covering the floor in Oklahoma City after the announcement that Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus just minutes before tipoff. After that day, […]

OPINION: MLB’s Arizona Plan is Just Selfish

by Brian Garland Caption: Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona, home stadium of the Arizona Diamondbacks. It is a proposed site for regular-season games. Desperate to recoup funds lost to a COVID-19 cancellation of the 2020 Major League Baseball season, owners and executives released the worst-possible solution: a regular season held exclusively in Arizona.  This past […]