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The Hawkeye

The Student News Site of University of Louisiana Monroe

The Hawkeye

Professors should allow students to use tech

Professors should allow students to use tech

Cecil Pradhan, Contributing Writer March 11, 2025

At a time where technology shapes nearly every aspect of education, some professors at ULM are taking a step back by banning devices in the classroom. While teachers intend to encourage active listening...

Fascism thrives on lies

Fascism thrives on lies

Nicholas Soirez, Editorial Assistant March 11, 2025

Fascist regimes use propaganda and misinformation to promote their ideology. As Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Vice President Henry Wallace pointed out in a 1944 New York Times article, fascism is “most easily...

University 1001 wastes students' time

University 1001 wastes students’ time

Maddalyn Doughtie, Contributing Writer March 11, 2025

University Seminar 1001 (UNIV1001) is a course that defies any major or schedule. Taking place at the ripe time of 8 a.m., it is a mandatory staple of the freshman experience. But how many students need,...

ULM dorm residents pay too much, unreliable laundry machines

Stirling Terry, Contributing Writer February 25, 2025

After paying thousands of dollars to live in the dorms, you might be surprised to find out that ULM charges residents $1.25 per machine to use a washer or dryer. While that might not be much, it quickly...

Homework should help students, not overwhelm

Cecil Pradhan, Contributing Writer February 25, 2025

After a long day of lectures, club meetings, and maybe even a part-time job, students finally get home, only to be greeted with hours of homework. Many students argue that professors should have a limit...

ULM’s email avalanche buries important messages

Alayna Pellegrin, Managing Editor February 25, 2025

Why can we have the acronym “TMI,” meaning “too much information and not “TME,” or “too many emails?” ULM’s email system is a major problem for students on campus because they congest...

ULM presses buttons with elevator access debate

Emma Sullivan, Opinion Editor February 25, 2025

Almost every student and employee at ULM has been a victim of the stairs in the academic buildings:  the higher your destination, the more you dread the journey. Save for Sandel Hall, most people don’t...

Excuses turning dangerous, normalizing facism

Nicholas Soirez, Editorial Assistant February 18, 2025

Elon Musk’s unsavory gesture at the Presidential Inauguration represents an eerie reminder of the past and a dark omen for America’s future. Amid excuses for the Sieg Heil, from “my heart goes out...

Res Life closes curtains on window decorations

Res Life closes curtains on window decorations

Emma Sullivan, Opinion Editor February 18, 2025

If you’ve ever walked past University Suites , you’ve likely noticed the colorful flag hanging in one of the first-floor windows. That's me! When I was assigned to  my street facing room nearly...

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Project 2025 in action, ruins American lives

Keith Webb, Arts & Entertainment Editor February 18, 2025

I am scared. I feel like it is okay to say that now that rumors have become reality. I am scared for my rights, my friends, my family, my community—I am scared and it is not something I can fix. I am...

Banning TikTok is discriminatory, undemocratic

Alayna Pellegrin, Managing Editor January 30, 2025

Since TikTok is going away, there’s one more secret I feel I must share with you…I never believed that the app was going to get banned. Many other ULM students did not think the U.S. government would...

TikTok refugees flock to Xiaohongshu after ban

Emma Sullivan, Opinion Editor January 28, 2025

As the TikTok ban went from an absurd stunt to a stark reality, users scrambled to find a replacement. It might seem logical for users to move to some of the popular American-based platforms such as Facebook...

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