When my senior year of high school was wrapping up, I was going through a slight Ebay phase. I was convinced that I could always get whatever it was I needed cheaper on Ebay. So when I was searching for prom dresses I naturally started looking there first. I found a really pretty dress and it was only 99 cents… with $99 dollars shipping, I found out later. But still even after the fact $100 [...]

The downside of stories and rumors we hear come from students on campus is that sometimes they are impossible to pull together to make a full story out of. A perfect example of this kind of situation this semester has been the eighth floor of Residence Tower. A few weeks back, Twitter was overloaded with the hashtag “#savethe8thfloor.” There were rumors going around of what had and hadn’t happened, and we set out to discover [...]

After this semester, I’ve been looking forward to summer. Sleep, home cooked food, I know I would have the time of my life. But, as a college student, with another three years of college ahead of me, I can already feel the loans piling up. I already have enough trouble finding money to buy a new pair of shoes, let alone pay off the thousands of dollars of debt in my future. Thus, my search [...]

For those faithful readers of the news section (I know you’re out there), I have a special treat for you this issue. On page seven, you’ll find a feature story I wrote on why college media matters. For this story, I interviewed a few of my fellow editors from collegiate papers across the U.S. In today’s society of shrinking newspapers and an increasing number of appearances by journalism on lists of “Top _____ Most Useless [...]

Dear Editor: Speaking as a 91-year-old Towson Tiger, Class of 1942, I wish to sincerely congratulate the members of The Towerlight staff for being nationally recognized, April 25, 2013, by The Society of Professional Journalists for their outstanding performance in the fulfillment of their responsibilities, and not only the contemporary members, but also their numerous predecessors. I have worked very closely with many Towerlight staffs in the past and wish to express my appreciation for [...]

For those of you who didn’t catch this in the Tiger Arena article that I wrote last issue, we are getting another tiger statue on campus. As if three wasn’t enough, a fourth one is coming outside of the new basketball, volleyball and gymnastics venue when it officially opens for athletics. A discussion about this sprung up in my news reporting class about three or four weeks ago. One of the students noted that she [...]

So as the group projects pile up, me and my partner for my journalism class decided to do a story about a group of runners in Baltimore that help people overcome whatever they are going through in life, like homelessness and addiction, through running. We had met one of the main organizers, interviewed her and made plans to meet the runners before their run the next day at 5:30 a.m. I am not an early [...]

A previous senior editor once told me that you won’t truly understand what it means to be in a position until you’re sitting in their chair. That advice has held true for me over my last three years at The Towerlight. When I first came into the office, I was a baby freshman who thought she was a pretty decent writer. My first assignment was to cover the Campus Activity Board’s “Hands in Wax” event [...]

When I first came into The Towerlight office, I expected something that was very similar to the newspaper room at my high school: three computers next to each other running Microsoft FrontPage. I also wasn’t coming in expecting to one day become the Editor-in-Chief, which at that time was Lauren Slavin. Turns out, I was wrong  about both. I now sit at the EIC desk, once occupied by such great journalists as Brian Stelter, Dan [...]

Recently, I started going to the gym with a friend at 7:30 in the morning to try to get in shape. The only problem was that I have to be at work at 9:30 most days. I thought I was brilliant and would just shower in the gym locker rooms before I had to leave for work. The day before my first gym morning, I packed a bag with everything I could possibly need to [...]