Mark Parent Opinions Editor Fourteen years ago, I was sitting in a second-grade classroom wondering why my mom had called me to the office to be picked up early from school. As it turned out, al-Qaeda had attacked the Pentagon,… Read More ›
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Political correctness: The new tyranny Mark Parent Opinions Editor There are those among us who want to kill freedom of speech, and we cannot let that happen. In today’s age, political correctness has become a form of speech fascism that… Read More ›
Restoring Unity: All Lives Matter Civil Rights Rally
Adam Griffin Staff Writer Behind 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., crowds of people gather in groups surrounded by marshals. They take up pens and sign a pledge to non-violence. They then turn to their groups and pick… Read More ›
Mental illness: A problem we can no longer ignore
Ailey O’Toole Staff Writer Mental illness, such as depression, anxiety and suicide, among children, adolescents and young adults is a problem in America — one we need to start talking about. How many of you have friends who suffer… Read More ›
Why your roommates may or may not be serial killers
Jackson Cooper Staff Writer It may not be common knowledge, but deep down, you know it’s true: one of the biggest fears about going to and being in college is that your roommates are actually serial killers. Maybe… Read More ›
Millennial Moment
Matthew Johnson Sports Editor It was just an easy evening in July. After dinner, my father had prepared to watch Sunday baseball with me — a pastime seemingly as natural as watching the grand old bat and ball game… Read More ›
Never Click on Clickbait
Matt Wood Staff Writer How many websites do you visit on an average day? How many individual web pages do you click on? “South Park” fans will recall the episode “Over Logging,” in which an Internet outage drives South Park’s… Read More ›
Should we drill in the Arctic?
Matt Wood Staff Writer Pro-Argument Last Monday, President Obama granted Royal Dutch Shell approval to resume its controversial drilling campaign in the remote Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of Alaska. The decision came just weeks after the president… Read More ›
Immigrant attitudes
Adam Griffin Staff Writer The Statue of Liberty stands as a tall symbol in New York’s harbor. The words from her iron frame echo across the world: “Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp,” cries she with silent lips. “Give me… Read More ›
Life in Black lives matter?
Matt Wood Staff Writter We can hardly go a day without some spectacled, new-age media type telling us about the power of social media. And, to an extent, they’re right. Social media is a powerful tool. Ubiquitous access to the… Read More ›
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