The Et Cetera recently received an anonymous, hand-written letter from someone claiming to be a student at Eastfield College accusing us of biased reporting and failing to represent everyone on campus. The letter was slipped under our adviser’s office door after she had left for the day, and the author...

By Brandon Wagner Election time is approaching, and we all know that things will start to get ridiculous soon. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is the first well-known candidate to officially put his hat in the ring. Cruz now has a distinct possibility of being the beginning in a long line of hilarious failures....

By Courtney Schwing I came out to my parents a few times. I was 13 when I told them I had a girlfriend, 15 when I tried to explain that I still liked women and 22 when I told my mom I was in love with a girl from New York. In return my mother started drinking heavily and forced me to tell my father. The...

By Keturah Jones “The Wizard of Oz” is one of my childhood favorites. I will never forget the first time I saw this movie. My dad told us to hurry and eat our dinner because there was something he wanted us to watch. “Oh Lord, not another Christian program on TBN,” I thought. All six of us girls...

By John Kirvin Medical marijuana is a subject that most people know about, but it is rarely a topic of discussion. However, I often run into stories about individuals with cancer or other health problems that would benefit from the use of the prescribed drug. One story I came across was of a boy diagnosed...

By Parker Ward The lights came up to transition into the next song. The piano notes I had heard all throughout my childhood began playing once again. I knew what was coming, and I was ecstatic. My childhood idols played the song I used to listen to for hours on end with my father. I was able...

By Vanessa Trevino Growing up, I was always thin and never thought anything of it. My eating habits were horrible. I would scarf down doughnuts for breakfast, pizza for lunch and the occasional cookies and milk at night to help me fall asleep. That didn’t sound like the diet of a “skinny”...

Our View In a misguided attempt to increase safety in Texas colleges, Republican State Sen. Brian Birdwell has authored Senate Bill 11 — a bill that would allow concealed carry of weapons on public campuses — and sponsored Senate Bill 17 — a bill that would allow open carry of holstered handguns...

By Chandler Claxton Growing up, I always valued the truth, no matter how brutal it was. The truth is what first attracted me to journalism. The profession survives on the credibility and accuracy of media outlets and their reporters. Without the audience’s trust, news stories hold no water and the primary...

By Caitlin Piper I was introduced to pyramid schemes when I was 6 years old, after my father fed me a “cookie” that tasted like an unholy combination of a prune and a half-chewed granola bar. After a bit of goading and a lot of whining, I managed to choke it down as he rattled off the many health...

By Caitlin Piper I was 8 years old when I first convinced myself I was going to hell. It was through no fault of my family, who — despite being staunchly Catholic — were consistently supportive of me. Nor could it be blamed on the priests and nuns whom I would visit every week, as they favored...

On the afternoon of Sept. 4, a 23-year-old facilities department employee approached a female Eastfield student. The employee offered the student a tour and invited her into a locked music practice room before sexually assaulting her, according to police. Mesquite detectives, alerted to the crime by campus...

By Courtney Schwing I looked at his face as I sat in the passenger seat of his car. It seemed different. I had spent countless days and endless nights studying the structure of it. I remembered the peacefulness in his face as he was in mid prayer on Sunday mornings. I could spot the difference in his smiles:...

By Stephen Klehm In September, Emma Watson gave a speech at the United Nations in New York, arguing against the common definition of feminism and asking men to take a stand for gender equality. The speech and its subsequent campaign, He for She, received almost immediate attention from the media....

By Caitlin Piper At its core, the He for She campaign is a noble endeavor. The result of a collaboration among the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, British actress Emma Watson and American journalist Wolf Blitzer, the campaign aims to promote gender equality and denounce...

By Sidney Murillo I am all about being body positive. I love the idea of men and woman feeling good about themselves. Not just about the way their bodies look, but rather what kind of person they are. I kind of have to be. I am a short, chubby Hispanic girl, and I can’t turn on the TV, read...

By Juanita Hernandez How long do you wait for Netflix to load its content? What if I told you that the loading time could double and even triple if we got rid of net neutrality? Net neutrality, enforced by the Federal Communications Commission, prevents Internet service providers such as Comcast,...

The 2014 Texas gubernatorial election, in which we will select our next governor, will take place Nov. 4. Texans may cast their votes among Republican Greg Abbott, Democrat Wendy Davis, Libertarian Kathie Glass and Green Party candidate Brandon Parmer. Unfortunately, a large number of people do not appreciate...