Global & National News – The Kayseean

Ukrainian flags in front of the White House | Photo by Yohan Marion on Unsplash

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Putin’s Goals for Ukraine: The Conflict Explained

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which began in February and continues, is at its heart an effort to recreate the glory of the Soviet Union, which formally collapsed in 1991 after decades of over-spending on its military and the sheer failure of Marxist ideology. Within a decade, Russia would default on its debt—it was so cash-strapped that it was unable to pay state employees, fail to keep NATO from kicking Serbians (a Russian ally) out of Kosovo, watch former allies join NATO, lose a war in Chechnya, and become a bastion of corruption. Putin, a former KGB (Soviet intelligence) officer, resented the shame heaped upon Russia, and in a 1999 speech to the Duma he spoke of “strengthening the vertical chain” of power domestically, and go on to say “Russia has been a great power for centuries, and remains so. It has always has and still has legitimate zones of interest…we should not drop our guard in this respect, neither should we allow our opinion to be ignored.”

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Fall 2021 Semester Round-Up

Fall semester has come to a close and the holiday season is upon us. So in between hanging up your stockings and prepare your new year’s resolutions, take some time to reflect back on the semester that has passed us by.

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Remembering The 9/11 Attacks 20 Years Later

Every year on September 11th, Americans across the nation pause to reflect and remember the 2,753 lives lost on that day. It’s been 20 years since that horrific day and for us Americans it’s a day that none have forgotten. Many in the community have hosted events in hopes of honoring the lives lost, such as running a 5K to raise money to help veterans in need, or stair climbs that symbolize the number of flights climbed by the firefights in the towers.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking. (Photo by Julian Wasser/Getty Images)

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In Remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Last Monday, the US celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy and his fight for the political, social, and economic equality of African Americans. This struggle still continues to this day. As part of that celebration, let’s look at some lesser-known details of Dr. King that may have been skipped over in your history classes.

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Make Your Vote Count

We are facing quite possibly the most critical election of our young lives. Millennials and voting age Gen Z make up 37% of all eligible voters, but the turnout of young voters has been steadily decreasing in the past few decades. In the 2018 midterms, only 30% of voters in this age range voted…

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Pandemics: Past, Present, and Future

The Spanish flu was the deadliest pandemic in modern history. More than 675,000 Americans lost their lives due to the flu epidemic from 1918 to 1920, many more than the number of Americans who had died in World War I. Currently, the COVID-19 epidemic has been ravaging the US since February of 2020. To find out more about what we can learn about the current pandemic from the previous one, I sat down with Dr. Robin Feierabend, a retired physician specializing in family medicine, who was formerly with the Quillen College of Medicine at ETSU. The discussion yielded three important takeaways…

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Summit Supercomputer Joins The Fight Against COVID-19

The Summit Supercomputer located in Oak Ridge, TN, has put its artificial intelligence towards the fight against COVID-19. Daniel Jacobson, chief scientist for computational systems biology at Oak Ridge National Labs, and his team of researchers fed Summit genetic data from COVID-19 samples to compare and come up with a hypothesis and potential treatment options. After a week of running the data, the researchers viewed Summit’s findings and came to the Bradykinin Hypothesis…

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Voting During A Pandemic

2020 has been one long, inescapable nightmare and the presidential campaign has had no small part in that. Now the candidates have been chosen the race is finally nearing its end. The swarm of political ads and rampant display of campaign merchandise means that our most sacred of civil duties is once again upon us. Crowds will be gathering around polls and with them the danger of the spread of Covid-19…

Photo by Fusion Medical Animation on Unsplash

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The Kayseean Suspends Consistent Publication Amid Coronavirus Crisis

With King University’s decision to extend spring break and move instruction to an online format until April 20, The Kayseean will suspend consistent publication for at least the next month.

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Voting in the Primaries: Registration, Early Voting, and Absentee Ballots

2020 arrived liked any other new year, full of promise and possibility. This year presents something unique: this year we are greeted with our recurring opportunity and democratic obligation of deciding the course of our country for the next four years. The first step to any of this, however, is understanding the voting process…

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