Published on April 12, 2016, at 9:40 p.m. by Kala Brumbaugh. Are you a military veteran? If you aren’t, chances are you know someone who is. There are more than 440,000 veterans in higher education programs across the county supported by the Student Veterans of
Published on March 30, 2016, at 4:10 p.m. by Lindsey Young. As graduation approaches, college seniors prepare to enter the “real world.” But after four years of studying public relations, are they really ready? Many young professionals have confessed that while in college they succeeded
Posted on March 11, 2016, at 3:00 p.m. by Kala Brumbaugh. As a public relations major at a prominent university, I have encountered many different students throughout my classes. Whether I was meeting new people or seeing similar faces, I could not help but notice
Published on February 18, 2016, at 7:00 p.m. by Kala Brumbaugh. Public scrutiny is often a hard pill to swallow. Making mistakes is a part of everyday life. These mistakes usually have minimal effect and are easily correctable. However, the process becomes more complicated when
Posted on Oct. 30, 2015, at 12 p.m. by Madalyn Atherton and Sally Immel. Mark Twain said, “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,” and millennials seem to be whole-heartedly embracing his ideal. There has been a 130 percent increase in study abroad participation
Posted on Oct. 28, 2015 at 7 p.m. by Luke Thomas. PR and persuasion are two peas in a pod. And I just used it on you. Alliteration (the repeating of initial consonant sounds) is a rhetorical device. While that might trigger flashbacks of AP
Posted on Oct. 21, 2015 at 1:30 p.m. by Luke Thomas. If someone told you that your entire way of doing things was about to change, you might feel the tendrils of anxiety closing around you faster than you’d like. Stress, after all, is the
Posted on September 30, 2015, at 2 p.m. by Luke Thomas. For public relations students, internships aren’t just another way to pass the summer break. Adding that line to your résumé can mean the difference between landing a job after college and asking Mom and
Posted on September 24, 2015, at 9:00 a.m. by Kristen Ellis. What do a cover letter, a dentist’s chair and a spider crawling across the floor all have in common? They all have the ability to scare the average person half to death, motivated by
Posted: April 16, 2015, 3:00 p.m. by Annslee Wilson. Bigger is better — or at least that is what public relations students are often told. When it comes to choosing career paths, PR students sometimes confine themselves to one path. The idea of working in
