Sometimes here at the Daily Egyptian, we are hard on SIU.It's hard not to be when the university is behaving as someone's father trying to be hip in front of all the neighborhood's young adults.Imagine a...

There was a strange commotion in the past couple of days.Faner Hall was vandalized with cries of reformation, visible to those would walk by. Less than 24 hours later, the May 2 Strike Committee writes...

When two emergency medical responders look you straight in the eye and yell furiously, most would think you had done something wrong and should feel ashamed. When this happened to me, I felt neither.I...

Most Illinois legislators are good people, trying to do the right thing.With that premise, the 10-month long budget impasse is a bit of a mystery. Why would good legislators allow the state to sink into...

Editor's note: The May 2 Strike Committee members asked to remain anonymous for this column. There seem to be mixed reactions about some graffiti that showed up on campus, like a ghost from decades...

As members of a media organization, the students in the Daily Egyptian newsroom understand the importance of the First Amendment.We understand the importance of having the ability to say unpopular things,...

What about Mike Madigan?Those four words sum up the bulk of the critical responses to my column Wednesday, in which I argued that Bruce Rauner has been an epic failure as governor of Illinois.If Rauner...

The assumption that a college education should take four years is baked into American culture. Colleges in the colonial days were founded on the premise of a four-year degree, a concept imported from Europe....

Bruce Rauner is a failed governor.Fifteen months after the wealthy Republican venture capitalist was sworn in to his first elected office, the state he was elected to lead is in worse shape by nearly every...