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Local drag queen shares their 40 year long career story

By Sara Wangler, Staff Reporter
November 17, 2020
Mandy Rothert, lab manager at the Fermentation Science Institute at SIU, describes testing sanitizers for impurities in the Fermentation Science Lab Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020. “This is where we were testing some commercial hand sanitizer and we were [looking for] any of the byproducts, the impurities, in the ethanol, I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed how some hand sanitizers smell like bad tequila, so that’s all of those byproducts in there that we don’t want,” Rothert said, “we use this to measure the alcohol percentage to make sure that we were at 80 percent.”

SIU professors contribute to COVID-19 research

By Janae Mosby, Staff Reporter
November 1, 2020
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One Fist, One Podium, One Large Reprimand: Olympian speaks about her Pan-American protest and the punishment that followed it

By Tamar Mosby, Editor
October 28, 2020
Letter from the editor: It's time for student news to step up

Letter from the editor: It’s time for student news to step up

By Kallie Cox, Editor-in-Chief
October 28, 2020
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Exploring SIU’s sustainability mission

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Exploring SIU’s sustainability mission

By Oreoluwa Ojewuyi, Staff Reporter
October 25, 2020
Four LGBTQ heroes who made history

Four LGBTQ heroes who made history

By Amber Koteras, Staff Reporter
October 22, 2020
Polling stations across Illinois continue to keep their doors open for the Presidential Primary Election despite the growing concerns of the spread of COVID-19 on Tuesday, Mar. 17, 2020 at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, IL.

State’s attorney and coroner’s races could impact future of Molly Young case

By Keaton Yates, Staff Reporter
October 21, 2020
Emerald Avril rallies the protesters on September 25, 2020, in Carbondale, ILL.

Opinion: ‘The Most Disrespected Person in America is the Black Woman’

By Oreoluwa Ojewuyi, Staff Reporter
October 2, 2020
Drag king performer, Faim Lee Jewls, sits for a portrait on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020 in Murphysboro, IL. Jewls, the lone drag king in the southern Illinois region, says he is celebrating his 15th year as a drag king.

Queens and kings in quarantine: Local Drag performers adapt to COVID-19 regulations

By Sara Wangler, Staff Reporter
October 1, 2020
Protesters of the grand jury's decision in the death of Breonna Taylor carry a sign in her memory during a march through Louisville, Ky. on Sept. 25.

‘She looks just like me:’ Black women are at the forefront of protest efforts, activism in Louisville

By Kallie Cox, Editor-in-Chief
September 28, 2020
Jeff Messemore an anti-protester speaks to Ayo Oyetunji, a Black Lives Matter protestor about his reasons for not supporting the BLM movement during the Vienna Rally for Racial Justice on Sunday, Sept. 2020.

‘All lives can’t matter until Black lives do:’ Racist incident at Vienna high school leads to protest

By Keaton Yates, Jamilah Lewis, and George Wiebe
September 27, 2020
Chastity Mays, Nancy Maxwell, Emerald Avril and Elise Grabowska lead the march during a protest against the grand jury decision for the Breonna Taylor case on September 25, 2020, in Carbondale, ILL.

A ‘fight for freedom:’ Carbondale community marches in honor of Breonna Taylor

By Jamilah Lewis, Keaton Yates, Staff Reporters
September 26, 2020
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