By: Ashleigh Atwell

Arizona has recently become a hotbed of controversy. In late April, a state law was passed that gives Arizona law enforcement officials the right to stop and question anyone whom they perceived to be an illegal immigrant. Evidently, anyone who is caught w...

By: Miranda Sain

With the anticipated opening of the Parker H. Petit Science Center, the university is taking steps to catch up with the rampantly growing student population. For the past few years, students have complained about shrinking classrooms and growing class siz...

By: D.J. Kunovac

President Mark Becker asked the audience in a recent town hall meeting to brainstorm bold steps Georgia State can take to make itself one of the premier public research universities in the country. Starting a medical school at Georgia State, affiliated wi...

By: Sheena Roetman

Most of us can easily make a list of complaints about our campus, our curriculum, the faculty and staff, fellow students, university policy (or lack thereof), or tuition and fees, to name just a few. Sometimes it feels that the only thing a person can do ...

By: Syeda Hira Mahmood

Elena Kagan is the U.S. Supreme Court hopeful who would assume the now vacated spot left after Justice John Paul Stevens announced his retirement. Kagan is a graduate from Princeton University, Harvard Law School and Oxford University. She was formally an...

By: Miranda Sain

It is no secret that the media plays a large role in the way that women and men are supposed to look. Whether through television, music, or advertising, the media gives us social cues on how we are “expected” to act. It teaches us abou...

By: Ashleigh Atwell

Ever since Roe v. Wade passed in 1973, abortion has been an issue steeped in conflict and controversy. Pro-life groups and politicians have been trying for over thirty years to get the law alter or repealed. Nebraska lawmakers are the latest to join the p...

By: Jenalyn Wright

Russia has frozen adoptions to the United States because a mother from Tennessee, Torry Hansen, decided to send her seven-year-old adopted son, Artyom Savelyev, back to Moscow with a note saying that the child was mentally unstable. “He is violen...

By: Elijah Sarkesian

Two years ago, I assumed the job as Editor in Chief of The Signal with the broad and somewhat prideful goals of improving a publication that had seen its reputation on campus suffer significantly over the last decade or so. With this issue, I leave wit...

By: Sheena Roetman

Recently, Scott Henry of Creative Loafing took a tour through one of Atlanta’s largest and most mysterious buildings--City Hall East. You’ve probably contemplated the building’s existence and use at least once. It sits between North Aven...

By: Georgette Eva

The Library of Congress may shelve some of the oldest documents and rarest books in the world, but it can now boast about holding the most Twitter posts too. That’s right. The Library of Congress, our nation’s oldest federal cultural instit...

By: Ashleigh Atwell

By the time you read this article, Freaknik will have descended upon Atlanta after over a decade of absence. The return of Freaknik is steeped in controversy and worry because of its raucous past. Freaknik began in the ‘80s as a picnic for colle...

By: Ashley Bretchel

Not too hopeful about employment opportunities after graduation? Well, if you’re enrolled at Lansing Community College in Michigan, you may not have to worry as much. The school has come up with a very creative way to boost enrollment. They are ...

By: Elijah Sarkesian

Maybe after two years of constantly having to edit articles and cringe when misspelled words make it onto the pages of The Signal, I’ve become overly sensitive.  After two years, though, and an additional three as a student at Georgia State, I&...

By: Sheena Roetman

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of people walking around with feathers in their hair, and it kind of pisses me off. Maybe you haven’t noticed the recent hipster trend of appropriating Native traditions, but being of Native descent and having been ra...

By: Miranda Sain

With the anticipated opening of the Parker H. Petit Science Center, the university is taking steps to catch up with the rampantly growing student population. For the past few years, students have complained about shrinking classrooms and growing class siz...

By: DJ Kunovac

Georgia State students who transfer to other four-year institutions should be fined because they cost Georgia State and its alumni money. Levying a fine on students for transferring might sound harsh and without merit, but it is a logical solution that...

By: Miranda Sain

Recently, one high school freshman has captured headlines by becoming yet another poster child of the effects of bullying. Last January, Phoebe Prince hanged herself in her home after being bullied repeatedly by fellow students. The story is becoming ...

By: Caroline Cox

When someone mentions American Apparel, the first thing that comes to your mind probably isn’t the fact that they are the largest clothing manufacturer in the United States. Rather, it’s probably a blur of images involving coke-skinny pseudo-j...

By: Miranda Sain

In the good ol’ United States of America, we believe in individual rights and freedom of choice. Or do we? The 13th Amendment specifically prohibits involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime. However, the Selective Service System (S...