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Author: Sharonjeet Kaur

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OPINION: Students should take advantage of LinkedIn
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OPINION: Students should take advantage of LinkedIn

  • Sharonjeet Kaur
  • March 11, 2019
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College students should utilize LinkedIn for connections and job opportunities.

OPINION: Professors must allow students to form personal opinions
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OPINION: Professors must allow students to form personal opinions

  • Sharonjeet Kaur
  • March 4, 2019
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While it is fine for professors to voice their opinions, students should make their own opinions.

Ghosting: Immature and unhealthy
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Ghosting: Immature and unhealthy

  • Sharonjeet Kaur
  • February 11, 2019
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Ghosting is immature and lazy and causes a person who is left not knowing where they stand or if they did something wrong.

OPINION: Healthcare professionals disregard heavier patients
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OPINION: Healthcare professionals disregard heavier patients

  • Sharonjeet Kaur
  • February 4, 2019
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Weight stigma is causing harm in healthcare as patients are being denied the care that they need, and they are turning to diets and influencers that are causing more harm.

OPINION: Lowering the drinking age would increase health risks
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OPINION: Lowering the drinking age would increase health risks

  • Sharonjeet Kaur
  • January 21, 2019
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Lowering the drinking age would increase the number of motor vehicle accidents and would also have a negative impact on adolescent brain development.

OPINION: Forming New Year’s resolutions supports health, wellness
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OPINION: Forming New Year’s resolutions supports health, wellness

  • Sharonjeet Kaur
  • January 14, 2019
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The New Year brings a time for self reflection on the past year and for setting goals for the new year through the form of New Year’s resolutions that support one’s health and wellness.

OPINION: Juuls are just as harmful as cigarettes
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OPINION: Juuls are just as harmful as cigarettes

  • Sharonjeet Kaur
  • November 5, 2018
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Students should steer away from using JUULs as an alternative to smoking.

OPINION: Beware of health advice on social media
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OPINION: Beware of health advice on social media

  • Sharonjeet Kaur
  • October 22, 2018
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Social media has come with hazards, including the promotion of misleading health products and lifestyles.

OPINION: Drug addiction deserves awareness on campus
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OPINION: Drug addiction deserves awareness on campus

  • Sharonjeet Kaur
  • September 17, 2018
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Ending addiction won’t be easy, but it will take effort on individual, community, national and global levels.

OPINION: Healthy habits vital to student success
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OPINION: Healthy habits vital to student success

  • Sharonjeet Kaur
  • August 20, 2018
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Students should invest more in healthy habits this semester.

Commentary: The EpiPen price increase – Profits vs. People?
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Commentary: The EpiPen price increase – Profits vs. People?

  • Sharonjeet Kaur
  • August 29, 2016
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There’s another price hike in a lifesaving medicine, and it wasn’t by Martin Schkreli this time.

Understanding the culture of college drinking
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Understanding the culture of college drinking

  • Sharonjeet Kaur
  • August 22, 2016
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During their first semester, students may find themselves surrounded by alcohol whether they have experience with the substance or not.

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KENNESAW, Ga. — Since October 1963, KSU Student Media has dedicated itself to authentic storytelling and exceptional journalism written by the students, for the students. Over the past two academic years, Student Media at Kennesaw State University has seen significant traction and promise through strong student leadership and ambitious
initiatives.

OWL Radio, The Sentinel Newspaper and The Peak Magazine have grown into organizations whose reach, whether through written word or radio broadcast, touches tens of thousands of students.

Despite the lack of institutional support, Sentinel and OWL Radio have been nominated for the Atlanta Press Club 2026 Awards of Excellence and the GABBY awards for Student Radio, respectively.

Kennesaw State University administration is hindering progress by stripping the key funding for The Sentinel, The Peak and OWL Radio.

On March 23, KSU announced that there were no remaining funds for Student Media. This eradicated the possibility for additional physical prints for The Sentinel or The Peak and drastically cut funding for OWL Radio’s event programming. The justification of the funding removal does not come with a promise of better housing, parking, or safety on campus for students. Rather, it comes with KSU’s neglect of their debt to their music licensing budget.

For the fiscal year, Student Media was allocated a $97,000 budget by the Division of Student Affairs. However, instead of the entirety going to Student Media, $61,185.99 of the budget paid for music licensing fees for Registered Student Organizations (RSOs), Fraternity and Sorority Life (FSL) and Student Affairs as a whole.

This move through budgeting resulted in Student Media paying not just the debt for the music licensing, but Kennesaw State University’s ability to play music across campus freely.
Despite only being responsible for part of the music licensing costs, Student Media’s budget covers almost all of KSU’s music licensing fees, excluding athletics. These fees take up 63.08% of Student Media’s total budget, meaning OWL Radio, The Peak and The Sentinel are only receiving a fraction of the funding they need to function.

Here’s the truth: Kennesaw State is disinterested in the growth of Student Media.

We are in a dangerous and pivotal time in American History. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, under the Trump Administration, Press Freedoms have been dubbed “no longer a given” by the organization.

Student reporting and radio operations are becoming more crucial by the day to cover important topics larger media outlets look away from, and the stripping of funding follows a dangerous step for KSU’s perspective on Press and Broadcasting Freedoms.

This follows a concerning enrollment pattern in KSU’s journalism program while other university papers, such as the University of Georgia’s Red & Black and Emory University’s The Emory Wheel, continue to thrive. Editorial Board: KSU’s Neglect of Student Media Is Unacceptable

The university’s journalism program, which did not exist until 2017 according to Campus Enrollment Data, saw early success, with peak enrollment numbers in 2018 and 2020. However, the program has seen a steady decline since 2021.

Instead of taking the time to invest in its journalism students, KSU has opted to invest into their athletic department, pouring millions of dollars into sports and freshmen generations, including a $15 million dollar naming deal with FifthThirds Stadium and a lack of housing or class priority for students who classify as non-freshman.

Fundamentally, Kennesaw State’s recent history has been defined by an administration that has neglected the student body and proven repeatedly that KSU’s priorities are financially tied to athletics and tuition revenue from incoming classes.

To have a thriving campus community, KSU must invest in its student body. Students want a university that cares for each student, not how many students it can accept and pack into a classroom or a stadium. A university is only as great as its students’ success, and without true support, KSU will always fall short.

OWL Radio, The Sentinel and The Peak are calling for the support of the student body, faculty and alumni by donating to Student Media through KSU’s Giving Day. Any amount helps and will allow Student Media to continue quality, student led content.

Signed Kennesaw State University Student Media Editors and Managers, Zaire Breedlove, Devyn Byers, Alexis Barton, Tye Brown, Devyn Woodard, Joey Hawthorne, Mary Wingate, Mafe Gomez, James Harris, Jordan Scruggs, Scott Daniell, Jackson Louneoubon

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