Texas State, do your job
Texas State officials announced Sept. 10, 2019, the campus had misreported Clery reportable offenses on the annual Campus Security Report, formerly, “Campus Watch.” The university’s response is a...
View ArticleThe Main Point: You need us and we need you
Collegiate journalists live through the stories they tell and the people who share their stories with them. Student newsrooms, while you remember people, places and things that go wrong, on Student...
View ArticleThe Main Point: Predatory apartment complexes plague San Marcos
Student apartment complexes take advantage of students and the manipulation needs to stop. An era of honest communication, transparency and adequate housing conditions has been yearned for far too...
View ArticleDefend the First, don’t pervert it
The First Amendment, as integral as it is to our democracy and morality, must not be used as a springboard for responding with equally-sensationalized actions toward provocative public speakers....
View ArticleFebruary is over, but Black History is forever
When the calendar turns to February, the smell of baked macaroni and cheese and smothered fried chicken disperse across Texas State’s soul food celebration. Prominent black figures dust cobwebs off...
View ArticleThe Main Point: Our vote should not be silenced
The voting machines at the LBJ Student Center were the last of 49 polling locations in the county to be turned in to be tallied, with students waiting upward of four hours to cast their ballots. This...
View ArticleNot today COVID-19, we have work to do
COVID-19 changed everything as we know it. At The Star, we have not printed in weeks, our newsroom is quiet, all meetings take place on Zoom and we are severely limited in what work we can do...
View ArticleSilence is compliance
In a time where black people are justifiably devastated and grieving, the privileged should be using their privilege to speak up against injustice—not undermining black feelings with selfishness and...
View ArticleHistory failed us, we failed ourselves: We do not know enough about Juneteenth
On June 19, 1865, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, General Gordon Granger of the Union army arrived in Galveston, Texas, and proclaimed that slaves were free. The day is...
View ArticleThe Main Point: Texas State needs to stop hiding COVID-19 information
When Texas State announced some classes would be conducted in-person during its summer II session, we, and other students alike, hoped the university’s primary goal would be to keep us informed on...
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