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The Memphis City Council recently moved to relocate a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest in Health Sciences Park in Memphis, Tennessee. Forrest was a Confederate general and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. The Tennessee Historical Commission has rejected this movement. The city was required to […]
California Senate bill, SB 1146, that seeks to regulate the way LGBT students are treated at faith-based colleges, recently passed after months of amendments and ongoing conversations between faith-based universities and the legislators in the state of California. The bill will go into effect at the beginning of the 2017-2018 […]
Several individuals wearing clown masks have been spotted across John Brown University’s campus in early October following the recent trend of clown sightings around the United States. The sightings took place at various locations such as the Dogwood Trail near Hutcheson Hall, the intermural fields, and near Balzar Technology Center. […]
Over the past few decades, falling oil prices and the overall instability of the Venezuelan government have set Venezuela into massive inflation. As Venezuela stops international trade, super markets are finding it harder to get products, hospitals are running out of medication and acquiring even basic amenities such as […]
Tuesday, October 11th saw the first of four student-lead political forums held on John Brown University’s campus. The forum, organized and moderated by Jackson Love, junior engineering major, focused on economic policies of the two opposing political parties. “I believe it’s important for students to know how to process their […]
Over 50 bombs and mortars are dropped each day in Syria, each one destroying communities and leaving people homeless. Each time this happens, the White Helmets rush in to help people regardless of their religion or political views. The White Helmets, also referred to as the Syrian Civil Defense, is […]
The business department at John Brown University, is looking at getting a new major. It will be a finance major. According to Joe Walenciak, Dean of Soderquist College of Business, the undergraduate council approved the new finance major on October 12. The next step is for it to get […]
Republican Presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump claimed a $916 million loss on his 1995 tax return, which allowed him to avoid paying federal income tax on his businesses for at least 18 years. The enormous tax benefit came from failed business ventures, including three Atlantic City casino bankruptcies, […]
Facebook. Instagram. Twitter. Snapchat. We all have them. We all use them. The development of social media has taken hold of the American youth like nothing we’ve seen before in what political America has coined “The War On Clickbait.” A recent study conducted by Dr. H. Tag of the South […]
Tensions deflated in Kashmir last Wednesday as the Indian military killed two Kahmiri gunmen who had taken an Indian government building. Kashmir is jointly governed by Pakistan and India, and has been a disputed territory since the regions gained independence from Great Britain in 1947. India and Pakistan […]