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Written by Devon Mitchell Roanoke’s Center for Economic Freedom had its inaugural David L. Guy Lecture Series event with speaker Stephen Moore in a talk entitled, “Is Socialism Coming To America”. In case you don’t know who Stephen Moore is, he is an economic and political analyst who wrote for the Wall Street Journal and…
Written by Kristi Rolf Lush guitar chords, subtle baselines, gentle percussion, and ambient strings. These are the sounds layered underneath the signature soft falsetto voice of Novo Amor’s Ali Lacey. I first discovered his music three years ago when its comforting sound helped me cope with the stress of my final year of high school….
Written by Chamberlain Zulauf My senior year is the busiest I’ve ever been here at Roanoke and we’re only halfway through the first semester. Being busy isn’t a problem but the stress that comes with responsibilities can be the real deal. This year especially with in-person classes and the feeling of full-blown college it’s easy…
Devon Mitchell This summer, I taught my first online English class for Blue Ridge Literacy, a local non-profit whose mission is to teach English to Roanoke’s immigrant population. I taught a beginner class that had one Haitian woman and four Afghan women. I began the summer nervous and ready to tackle the challenge of…
Rebecca Dance For the reader’s convenience, I will recap my 2013 middle school experience: Yik Yak is an app that connects you with people within a certain geographic radius. The purpose of the app is to share and create discussion threads that can be participated in anonymously. Naturally, we loved it and used it…
Kristi Rolf Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to go to my first music festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I got my shifts covered for the weekend, let my professors know that I would miss class on Monday, and hit the road to see live music for the first time in several years. My friends…
Chamberlain Zulauf Do you remember when people used to say, “come on it’s 2016…”? Well, it’s 2021 now and even your favorite male rapper probably paints their nails. 2021 is a great year for breaking gender norms. Life imitates art and reverbs of broken gender norms can even be seen here on campus as…
By Devon Mitchell The Texas abortion ban has been at the forefront of the news in the past couple of weeks. Pro-choice activists worry that changes to how Texas handles abortion cases will unravel nearly 50 years of women’s rights stemming from the 1973 Supreme Court decision on Roe V. Wade which decided state…
By Kristi Rolf Roanoke College is a different place in September 2021 than it was in May. During the last school year, I grew accustomed to a campus that seemed only half-alive. Many students spent the year at home, taking classes online. Those of us who remained spent more time in the library and the…
By Devon Mitchell It’s been ten years since the iconic moms and daughters of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, took the dance stage by storm with the premiere of the Lifetime reality TV show Dance Moms. I was ten years old when the show began, and as a dancer myself at the time, Dance Moms was a…