Author: MJ Routh

By MJ Routh | Multimedia JournalistLet’s just start off by saying that freshman year, I called my mom every time I did my laundry for the first three months to make sure I was doing it right. Can I put my colors with my white on warm? Do I have to actually do three separate loads? Of course, I eventually learned that colors can only go with whites on cold and “delicates” are actually delicate. But, I wish I would’ve known that before I turned my white shirt pink. As college students, we dive straight in, not knowing too much…

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By MJ Routh | PhotographerThis summer I went to Tampa Bay, Fla., and while playing pickle-ball with my grandparents, I realized I had spent so much of my week looking through the camera on my phone. It was as if I had never seen the ocean before or even my grandparents for that matter. While it bummed me out to think about it like that, I also had to remind myself of the photos and videos I took that I now get to treasure and look back on. I get that same sense of guilt when I fall down that…

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By MJ Routh | Multimedia Journalist Baylor University settled a lawsuit on July 13th filed by a former student who claims she was drugged and gang-raped by as many as eight of the school’s football players after a party that took place in February 2012. The terms of the settlement cannot be disclosed. The former Baylor volleyball player — referred to as Jane Doe — filed the lawsuit last year in Waco’s U.S. District Court after she felt several of the university’s officials did not respond to her claims in an appropriate manner.The university hopes settling with Doe will benefit…

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