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The Daily Egyptian
Serving the Southern Illinois University community since 1916.

The Daily Egyptian
Serving the Southern Illinois University community since 1916.

The Daily Egyptian
This is not how your story ends: The shadow pandemic of domestic violence

This is not how your story ends: The shadow pandemic of domestic violence

By Oreoluwa Ojewuyi, Staff Reporter
March 21, 2021
Love is in the air but so is COVID-19: Young adults adjust to dating during the pandemic

Love is in the air but so is COVID-19: Young adults adjust to dating during the pandemic

By Courtney Alexander, Staff Reporter
January 25, 2021
Southern Illinois Pride Queen, Blanche Dubois, and King, Faim Lee Jewls, of 2019-2020 lead the drive-thru Pride parade, June 28, 2020, in Carbondale, Ill.

Love done differently: Carbondale celebrates Pride amid the pandemic

By Ana Luiza Jacome, Staff Photographer
June 28, 2020
Kazz White (right), a member of Phi Mu Alpha, hugs his fiancé, Ben Wingerter (left) after the members of Phi Mu Alpha finish their serenade on Saturday, Feb. 15. "I just wanted [the proposal] to happen the next time I saw him and it just happened to be [after] Valentine’s Day," White said.

Sweetheart serenade: Phi Mu Alpha performs for newly engaged couple

By Rana Schenke and Keaton Yates
February 16, 2020
A hanging metal sculpture greets guests at the Love at the Glove Valentines day art show in SIU's glove factory.

Carbondale creators celebrate the art of love at 24th ‘Love at the Glove’ exhibit

By Keaton Yates, Staff Reporter
February 15, 2020
A tale of two couples: Southern Illinois sweethearts share their love stories

A tale of two couples: Southern Illinois sweethearts share their love stories

By Jacob Lorenz, Staff Reporter
February 14, 2020
Stacy Bowles, owner of Buds 2 Blooms in Marion, goes back to the cooler to grab some flowers for a Valentine's Day arrangement on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019. "This is where all the flowers are kept and I make the arrangements on a work bench," Bowles said.

How to speak the love language of flowers

By Bethany Rentfro, Staff Reporter
February 13, 2020
Take your Valentine’s Day from regretful to romantic

Take your Valentine’s Day from regretful to romantic

By Juniper Oxford, Staff Reporter
February 12, 2020
Valentine’s Day candies are set on display on Saturday, Feb. 9, 2019 at Etcetera Flowers, Fine Gifts & Gourmet in Marion. “We feel a sense of satisfaction making people happy [on Valentine’s Day],” owner Michael Heilig says, “Especially our delivery drivers, they feel its rewarding to take people flowers.”

A definitive ranking of each state’s most popular Valentine’s day candy

By Elizabeth Biernacki, Social Media Editor
February 10, 2020
The sunset illuminates Pulliam Hall with warm light Sunday, Nov. 26, 2017, at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. (Brian Mu–noz | @BrianMMunoz)

“The most compassionate person I’ve ever met” Communication Studies commemorate late professor

By Bethany Rentfro, Staff Reporter
February 5, 2020
Sophia Julio, a senior majoring in anthropology, poses for her friends taking pictures on Friday Feb. 8, 2019 during the annual Love at the Glove event inside the Glove factory in Carbondale.

‘Love at the Glove’ returning to SIU for 18th year

By Keaton Yates, Staff Reporter
January 30, 2020
Taylor Swift’s “Lover” is a Powerful Ode to the Challenges of Growth and Love

Taylor Swift’s “Lover” is a Powerful Ode to the Challenges of Growth and Love

By Kyler Guebert, Staff Writer
August 23, 2019
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