Dominic Brown Lantern Staff Disney is spearheading the new age of movies, most notably by reproducing their classics in live-action films. The most notable movie coming up is a live-action version of the 1998 classic Mulan. Despite the movie being set for a date more than a year out, it’s already drowning in controversy. The… Continue reading Let’s get down to business: There’s a new “Mulan”
Connor Detlefsen Lantern Staff With the recent decision to revoke current standards on Internet privacy set in place by the FCC, Internet Service Providers such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast will have the ability sell all data collected from its customers’ online activity. Prior to this new reality, the FCC granted users more privacy and… Continue reading ISPs profit at your expense
Tesla Bethel Lantern Staff Considering everything going on with United Airlines, I figured it would be a good time to talk about what a person’s rights are in regards to air travel. Now, overbooking is not illegal. In fact, a lot of airlines do this to a certain degree in order to compensate for potential… Continue reading United takes “fight club” to a new level: Know your air rights
Sophia Allen Lantern Staff President Donald Trump signed a bill into law that repeals an Obama-era hunting restriction in Alaska using the Congressional Review Act on Monday, April 3. The original bill stated that it was illegal to aerial hunt, trap and bait wolves and bears. In addition, it stated that hunters could not kill… Continue reading Trump administration repeals Obama-era bill: Legislation replaced by Public Law 115-20, ‘This isn’t hunting — it’s slaughter.’
Tori lemon Lantern Staff With the rising growth in diversity among students on the collegiate level, one would think there would be a closer positive correlation of diversity among administration and faculty members as well. Unfortunately, here at Butler as well as other universities, this is not the case. According to research gathered in 2016… Continue reading Lack of diversity in campus administration is a disservice to minorities
Photo illustration by D. Brown Dominic Brown Lantern Staff The internet subculture of memes has blown up in 2016, and its popularity continues to blow up in early 2017. The term “meme” was originally coined by Richard Dawkins as “an idea, behavior, or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.” Nowadays memes… Continue reading What do you meme?
Tyler Krenzin Lantern Staff Manners have long been the standard that parents have passed down to their children throughout the ages. Nothing should have changed with this generation, but for some reason it seems as if this so-called manners’ train skipped the millennials currently at Butler. The worst place that I have witnessed a lack… Continue reading Fixing manners must be top concern
Olivia Vest Managing Editor As President Trump continues shocking the public with rash decision making and policy reform, the effects of some of his first executive orders have been called into question. Hundreds of arrests all over the country have taken place. These first effects of Trump’s guarantee to remove illegal immigrants from the United… Continue reading Immigration raids pose threat to American economy, livelihood
Hunter Fullhart Photography & Social Media Editor Starting Saturday July 1, people 21 and over will be allowed to conceal carry on Kansas college campuses. There are many positives to allowing students to conceal carry handguns on college campuses, and personally, I agree with the positives of this argument. According to CNN, there have been… Continue reading Campus carry carries positives
Hayley Smith Editor-in-Chief Starting Saturday, July 1, any person 21 and over will have the legal right to carry a concealed weapon onto public college campuses in the state of Kansas. Of course, this includes Butler Community College. It also includes universities such as Kansas State University, Kansas University, Emporia State University and any other… Continue reading Concealed carry controversy continues
