May 22, 2025
Vol. 88, No. 4
First Langston Trail Ride a Success
One of Langston University’s own students organized the first trail ride and rodeo in the city of Langston in many years. London Brookins, a graduating senior business management and marketing major from Los Angeles, California, says his inspiration for the trail ride came from the Oklahoma culture that he has been around since his freshman…
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Student Voices Highlight Langston Housing Issues
Langston University students are voicing their concerns about unresolved housing problems, including plumbing issues, key accessibility, and maintenance delays. Many students have filed maintenance requests that have either taken weeks to resolve or have gone completely unanswered. Rayven Thurman, a graduating senior who lives in the Scholars Inn Apartments at Langston University, is one of them. “I was originally living in [building] 15 but we had plumbing issues, and I had to move in the middle of the semester … they only gave us like five days to move, so…
Keep readingOPINION: Campus Housing Problems, from the Parent Perspective
Facing campus housing issues doesn’t only affect students; it affects the parents too. Parents know about the problems their students deal with in housing, issues like broken front doors, broken ceiling fans, faulty shower heads, or bad outlets. The three big main problems dealt with regularly are are mold growth, missing door keys and apartment flooding. I personally have dealt with all three during my current junior semester. Trina Goff, my mother, saw a lizard come out from the sink when I experienced flooding, and she heard about me having…
Keep readingOPINION: Spring Week 2025 a Success
Spring Week is one of the weeks college students look forward to every year. It is full of events, activities, laughter, and competition. Spring week events included: Easter Brunch/Egg hunt, LalaPaLUza day party, Taste of Langston, Sneaker ball, Wednesday on the hill, Turn up Thursday, Bratz meet barbie, Lu@nite hide n’ seek, and Mane line. This has been one of the most eventful Spring weeks Langston has had. Spring Weeks’ most popular events are the NPHC Yard Show & the Foam Party. The NPHC Yard Show presented 5 Greek Organizations…
Keep readingPOLITICAL COLUMN: Understanding Immigration and Deportation
The Supreme Court and the Trump administration have been in a major disagreement over the imprisonment of an alleged MS-13 gang member from El Salvador. Kilmer Abrego Garcia is man that came to America from El Salvador; according to his record, he was identified as a member of MS-13 by Prince George County police department in Maryland. The report states that Kilmer was with two other high-ranking members of the gang when they were detained in 2019 after being spotted soliciting work outside a Home Depot. After he was arrested,…
Keep readingCOLUMN: How to get your maintenance issues fixed
As much fun as we students have here at our dear Langston university, sometimes we also experience “uh ohs.” Some are controllable; others maybe not, but when those “uh ohs” occur, the residential assistants are the first on call; they really are the Robins to our Batmans. Now some issues are silly: maybe you got locked out of your room or are arguing with a roommate, but the silliest issues of all are MAINTENANCE ISSUES. *LOUD DRAMATIC GASP* So what do you do? FOCUS UP! Let’s get serious and pay…
Keep readingPOLITICAL COLUMN: Tariffs, and what they do to America
To understand what is going on with the American economy today it is also important to know what tariffs are and what they have done to and for the country in the past. Tariffs are a tax imposed on a country for the imported goods that enter the country; meaning if a country wants to send goods to America, they must pay the tariff for those goods to enter America. Tariffs are usually set to fixed percentage of the price of the goods. We can see some of the earliest…
Keep readingOPINION: How to get your groove back after a breakup
Everybody wants a wholesome love story that you can tell for generations, the thought of love and happiness with someone who is pure and holds a special place in your heart. Well, this is college, bud. Things happen, and emotions make it feel like the world is crashing down before you. If that’s not the case, then you’re probably trying to find ways to “glow up” and heal, so the person who hurt you or you hurt someone, can see what they missed. Well, sista or brotha, here we are…
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REVIEW: The Radical Honesty of “Sinners”
Sinners is a very intentional film that perfectly captured the differences not only within African American society, but also within African American spirituality and religion. As we know, Christianity has played a major role in black culture, but before Christianity, there were other spiritual practices such as Hoodoo. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Hoodoo is defined as “a body of practices of sympathetic magic traditional especially among African Americans in the southern U.S.” Ironically, Hoodoo is often viewed as demonic or ungodly within the Christian community. Samuel Gichohi, a Langston…
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