ESU Bulletin

11/14/2025

The self has become a marketing campaign. I don’t want to sell mine.

| Story by Allie Breneman

Everywhere I look, life has turned into a pitch. Writers are told to “find their niche” and stay within it. Artists turn themselves into “content creators.” Students are told to “network” like CEOs at twenty. Even conversations feel rehearsed, infected with strategy. At some point, since...

11/14/2025

The Hornets beat Washburn University 45-17 on Nov. 8 after an early lead in the Turnpike Tussle game.

| Story by Isabella Tyson

Emporia State football defeated Washburn University 45-17 in the Nov. 8 Turnpike Tussle game held in Topeka. ESU started the game with a 14-0 lead. After a block from redshirt sophomore defensive back Erik McCarty, senior wide receiver Kingsley Bennett returned the ball 13 yards to start ESU’s lea...

11/11/2025

Students took to White auditorium Wednesday to ring in the 2025 basketball season with Late Night at White.

| Photos by Maddie Carr

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11/11/2025

Emporia State students will experience 24 hours living in rural Kansas through this year’s “E-mersion”

| Story by Isabel Ayala

On Nov. 10 and 11, a group of Emporia State students will embark on Jan Todd’s annual 24-hour “E-mersion” experience. Todd, an assistant professor of sociology, will take students on a less than 20-minute drive north of Emporia to Americus, Kansas to broaden their views on rural communities in...

11/11/2025

A reflection on why sensationalizing true crime erases victims and glorifies perpetrators.

| Story by Allie Breneman

It always starts with a woman—walking home alone, or driving at night, or out for a solo hike. The host’s voice is calm and practiced, the kind of tone used for bedtime stories. I can tell something awful is coming—the music shifts, a pause stretches too long—and then her name, spoken softly...

11/10/2025

Midnight Halloween Performance of Rocky Horror Show Sells Out

| Story by Adriana Peralta

Students and community members filled the lobby of King Hall at 11 p.m. on Halloween, one whole hour before doors opened for the midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Show. The showing, which took place in the show’s second week, was the biggest showing of the performance with a sold-out show. Some...

11/06/2025

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11/04/2025

Indiana University’s attempt to censor its student journalists is an attack on press freedom everywhere.

| Story by The Editorial Board

Freedom of the press is under direct attack at Indiana University Bloomington. In mid-October, the university fired Director of Student Media Jim Rodenbush, who had been with IU since 2018, after he refused to censor the student staff of the Indiana Daily Student, the university’s student newspape...

11/03/2025

We want to hear from the campus community! Do you prefer the new or previous Corky mascot? Take our poll below! Polling ends Nov. 4 at 5 p.m.

What is your opinion? Vote now: New Corky mascot unveiled at Homecoming, Previous Corky mascot, Neither the new or previous Corky mascot, No opinion

11/01/2025

The Rocky Horror Show brings 'the best Halloween party' to town

ESU Theatre performs The Rocky Horror Show photo call on Oct. 22 in Bruder Theater located in King Hall. The production premiered on Oct. 23 and will finish out showings on Nov. 1.

| Photos by Mason Hart

11/01/2025

Floorboards creek in what seemed to be the empty Memorial Union, lights flipped on long before motion sensors were installed, hairs raise as realization sets in. Campus might be haunted.

| Story by Adriana Peralta

Floorboards creek in what seemed to be the empty Memorial Union, lights flipped on long before motion sensors were installed, hairs raise as realization sets in. Campus might be haunted. Rumors have spread across Emporia State over time to create a long standing legend of hauntings. Roger Heineken,....