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Show attendee poses with Corky.

Freaks of the night: Midnight Halloween performance of Rocky Horror Show brings passion and expression out of audience

Adriana Peralta November 9, 2025

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...

Dr. Muhammad Nashatizadeh speaks at the Hayes Lecture on October 29th

Students attend 13th annual Hayes Lecture Series, “Neurons to Networks.”

Adriana Peralta November 9, 2025

Students funneled into rows of chairs on Oct. 29 in Webb Hall for Emporia State’s 13th annual Hayes Lecture, presented by Dr. Muhammad Nashatizadeh. Nashatizadeh, a neurologist, neurohospitalist and...

The Rocky Horror Show brings ‘the best Halloween party’ to town

November 1, 2025

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.

Martha: The haunting of the Memorial Union

Martha: The haunting of the Memorial Union

Adriana Peralta October 31, 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.  Rumors have...

Bird Bridge, formally known as Rocky Ford Bridge, overlooks the Cottonwood River outside Emporia city limits.

Bird Bridge: What lies beneath

Allie Breneman October 30, 2025

On humid summer nights, teenagers still drive out past the edge of Emporia, down a narrow county road that dissolves into farmland and dark. They park near the bridge and wait.  Some swear they’ve...

The 2025 Stinger Showdown will be operated by the Office of Student Life, Associated Student Government Vice President Josh Manahan announced Thursday. The annoucement comes just days before the event is set to kick off Homecoming Week.

Office of Student Life undertakes Stinger Showdown ahead of Monday event

Maddie Carr October 24, 2025

The Office of Student Life will lead the annual competition between schools known as Stinger Showdown, The Bulletin has learned.  The move comes as Stinger Showdown, which was planned by the Associated...

Courtesy of Rebecca Rodriguez Carey

Walnut Elementary students explore the globe through “Around the World” event

Allie Breneman October 16, 2025

Students from Walnut Elementary School experienced a trip across continents on Tuesday, Oct. 7 during an “Around the World” event put on by Emporia State’s applied sociology and applied criminology...

From “Harry Potter” to “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom,” what’s the deal with book bans? One librarian weighs in on their history. 

From “Harry Potter” to “Chicka Chicka Boom Boom,” what’s the deal with book bans? One librarian weighs in on their history. 

Isabel Ayala October 6, 2025

Since July 2021, 22,810 instances of book bans across 45 states and 451 public school districts have been reported according to Pen America, a nonprofit that advocates for free expression. In 1982, the...

David Garlock visited Emporia State on Sept. 29 to give his presentation "Blood Brothers: Escaping Abuse Through Murder." The presentation detailed the role trauma and abuse played in Garlock and his brother's 1999 murder case while also bringing a new perspective to the case of Lyle and Erik Menendez, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents Jose and Kitty seven years earlier.

‘You could be both’: One survivor’s advocacy for a system that heals

Maddie Carr October 5, 2025

Criminal justice reform advocate David Garlock, who returned to Emporia State for a second time on Sept. 29 to give his presentation "Blood Brothers: Escaping Abuse Through Murder," addressed criminology...

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