Opinion

In October, President Joe Biden’s proposal to make community college free was cut from the White House’s social spending bill in an effort to get it passed (it remains unpassed as of this writing). This is just the latest push for free private and public college, which began over five decades ago. It’s easy to […]

On Jan. 22, 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court officially ruled that a Texas statute banning abortion was unconstitutional, establishing that a woman’s right to an abortion was implicitly protected under the right to privacy in the 14th Amendment of the Constitution.  Roe v. Wade was a landmark decision from the court. It decriminalized abortions, which […]

Before the pandemic, students were free to meander through classrooms during 35-minute lunch periods — enough time for club members to participate in activities and finish eating. Club officers encouraged prospective members to join meetings through free pizza and snacks. Now, under the COVID-19 indoor mask mandate, many clubs are struggling to survive.  After students […]

2021 has seen numerous clothing trends from brightly colored floral dresses to patchwork jeans to variations of the House of Sunny Hockney Dress. However, the most surprising trend was the return of low-rise jeans. After years of people swearing by incredibly high-rise jeans, it was surprising to see how quickly people replaced their wardrobes with […]

As a student in the thick of junior year, I find it almost impossible to stay organized. You can be as prepared as possible, but you’ll still be stressed. You can be as efficient as possible, but you’ll never be done with all of your work.  The grind is never-ending, and with that follows a […]

Apple’s laptops from last year revolutionized the market, introducing the new MacBook Pro and Air. With the addition of the M1 chip, a CPU designed and manufactured in-house, the 2020 MacBooks allowed all components to be well-integrated and optimized, boosting performance and efficiency to new heights while retaining a cheap price. This year, with expectations […]

“Desktop to web to phones, from text to photos to video. But this isn’t the end of the line. The next platform and medium will be even more immersive, an embodied internet where you’re in the experience, not just looking at it,” Mark Zuckerberg said to  viewers during the virtual Facebook Connect 2021 keynote on […]

Hundreds of students decked out in their class colors walked to the football field to spend 40 minutes sitting on the bleachers for the first rally of the year during a tutorial on Sept. 17. To me, it was 40 minutes too long, mostly spent listening to my fellow juniors yell “Go home, freshmen!” Although […]

TW: The following content includes subjects on sexual violence, rape, and assault. For decades, media and pop culture have consistently portrayed men and women through strict stereotypes: men dominant and powerful and women as passive and powerless objects of male sexual desires.  In pop culture, women rarely see their intelligence or other less-sexualized attributes praised. […]