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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I was sitting with my friend outside the Main Stage Theater Friday night on one of those weird, uncomfortable wire benches, staring at the orange wall. I was waiting to congratulate the cast of “Spring Awakening” on a superb performance. I had just written a story about the show, one of my final bylines for The Towerlight. I reflected to my friend—I’d covered the theater department for four years, as a staff writer, photographer and [...]

In my four years at Towson, I’ve been tested far more than I thought possible. And through all these tests I’ve learned so much about myself. I’m stronger than I thought, smarter than I thought, and I’ve learned to trust and faith in my instincts more than I did when I was a little wide-eyed freshman. My first day at Towson, I was that freshman. Excited and eager about everything, convinced that Towson was the [...]

I don’t think it really hit me till this moment that this is the end. The end of my time at The Towerlight and Towson. Is it cliché to say I’ve changed since coming here? Oh hell yeah, but it’s true. If you haven’t changed in four years you need to look at your life and look at your choices. Now I know looking back can be like going through your Livejournal or Xanga from [...]

I’ve wondered how awesome of a person I’d be had I not applied to The Towerlight four years ago during my first week at Towson. I mean, sure, in return I ended up meeting some other cool people nerds, learning how to take photos that are absolutely breathtaking don’t entirely suck, launching a Fortune-500-quality adequate, independent website, winning prestigious awards Nintendo 64 games, and making some pretty amazing, hilarious, life-changing puns, but think about all [...]