Opinion

“The Mountain Echo,” the student-run newspaper at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, MD, published an article that was met with con­troversy. The article, “Mount President’s Attempt to Im­prove Retention Rate Included Seeking Dismissal of 20-25 First-Year Students,” written by Rebecca Schisler and Ryan Golden on Jan. 19, detailed the recently hired President Simon Newman’s plan to figure out which students were at risk

Around campus, I have heard some complaints about how much snow we’ve gotten recently, and before that people were happy that we hadn’t gotten much snow. It was basically spring! Not having snow is just unnatural. It’s winter. We live in a state that is meant to get snow this time of year. El Niño certainly has had an impact on the weather for

Please note the blogger mentioned added a disclaimer to the article discussed after its initial publishing claiming its content was “satirical.” Roosh V is a microbiologist turned blogger who has written cringe worthy articles such as “8 Things American Women Must Do to Themselves More Be Attractive for Men,” and “10 Reasons Heterosexual Men Should Leave America,” and has seemingly overnight became infamous for

For many years, a recreational gem of trees has been waiting, untouched, to be used by the Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) community. During the last couple of years, SNHU administration has contemplated turning a particular 25 to 35 acres of forest into a facility that would preserve the landscape (amidst all of the recent construction) and provide a beneficial, multi-use place for recreation.