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Lin-Manuel Miranda named Entertainer of the Year

December 24, 2016

The Associated Press has named Lin-Manuel Miranda the 2016 Entertainer of the Year. It’s no surprise following the year that Miranda has had. When Miranda hosted “Saturday Night Live” in October,...

We wish you a wonderful winter

December 22, 2016

On Dec. 25, Christians around the world will celebrate Christmas. On that same date, indigenous members of Peru celebrate Takankuy. Many people see Dec. 25 as just another day. On Dec. 25, if a Christian...

Person of the Year

December 13, 2016

Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, JFK, MLK, Barack Obama, Donald Trump. Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Richard Nixon, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump. It’s yet to be seen which side of history Trump will...

From soundtrack to mixtape

December 8, 2016

Creative genius Lin-Manuel Miranda released “The Hamilton Mixtape,” on Friday, Dec. 2. The album corresponds with Miranda’s 2015 Broadway musical, “Hamilton,” about the life of Founding Father...

Third racially charged incident disturbs FGCU campus

Third racially charged incident disturbs FGCU campus

December 2, 2016

On Thursday, Dec. 1, a white supremacist flyer was found posted to a pole outside the FGCU library. The flyer contained racially based language, such as “white guilt” and “free yourself from cultural...

Leave violence on the field

November 4, 2016

We all love watching football. American football is just a game where eleven men run around a field for an hour trying to tackle eleven other men. Though injuries are frequent, football is overall a harmless...

Clinton and Trump face off in town hall debate

October 10, 2016

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump met at Washington University in St. Louis for the second of three presidential debates on Oct. 9. The debate’s style was town hall, meaning that...

Freedom fighters

September 23, 2016

On Aug. 24, 1814, British troops burned the White House and most of Washington, D.C. to the ground. It’s been over 200 years since this happened, yet America is still so scared it might happen again...

Testing is not teaching

September 9, 2016

Talk to any college student about their major and you’ll likely get an excited response filled with lengthy rhetoric about goals and dreams. They’ll tell you what they want to do, who they want to...

FGCU Faculty Senate

FGCU Faculty Senate fails to elect new secretary

September 8, 2016

On Friday, Sept. 2, the FGCU Faculty Senate held their second meeting of the year. The top priority for the Senate during this meeting was the election of a secretary for the 2016-2017 school year. According...

Democrat and Republican are not your only options

August 21, 2016

For the majority of Americans, this year’s election has come to mean choosing between the lesser of two evils. That doesn’t have to be the case, though. If you ask a random person off the street to...

Over-playing the sexism card during the Olympics

August 15, 2016

We all know who Michael Phelps is: the greatest swimmer of all time, the greatest Olympian of all time and the face of America every fourth summer. These games, Phelps has gained two more titles: the “fiancé...

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