Sarah Grace Goolden Staff Writer From fighting to get the last book before class starts, to scrounging up hundreds of dollars for a stack of papers that will collect dust, students know the horrors of buying textbooks far too well. Anyone who has attended college has at least once questioned the price of required readings and if they still serve their function in our current … Continue reading Textbook Terrors
Kassandra Travis Staff Writer Beginning on Jan. 1, the state of Oregon lifted its ban on self-service gas pumps and it has the the state outraged. Although the state is demanding a reverse in the recently approved law, there is no concrete basis for their reaction. This novel experience for Oregonians will not only allow better access to gas pumps, but it will also allow … Continue reading The Price of Pumping
Sarah Grace Goolden Staff Writer Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, donated $33 million in college scholarships to TheDream.Us, a non-profit organization focused on children protected from deportation under the DACA program. However, Bezos, along with billionaires just like him, have been under fire for their mistreatment of employees while enjoying their massive tax breaks. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, established by … Continue reading What Should Billionaires Be Doing With Their Money?
Patrick O’Connell Staff Writer Recently the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York updated their policy on admission fees. For the past 50 years, the Met has allowed anyone from the public to visit and enjoy art for free. It’s given thousands of people the opportunity to learn and experience works of art that they normally wouldn’t, amd has opened eyes to a world that … Continue reading The Met is Showing that Art Is Not for Everyone
Courtney Cordoza Staff Writer During Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, he spoke of the many grandeur plans he had to reverse the so-called damage that had been done to our country. These campaign promises included tax breaks for the working middle class, repealing Obamacare and ending the war on coal. From what we can see, Trump ultimately failed to enact these policies. The biggest letdown … Continue reading Trump Is Not Getting His Hands Dirty
Donna Wood Staff Writer For years, college was always described to me as an education system where the student was on their own. Unlike high school, instructors do not remind their students to do the right thing. Instead, the decision lies with the students because they are recognized as responsible adults who have the capacity to make their own decisions, regardless of the consequences that … Continue reading Stand Present: The Issue with College Attendance
Krysten Heberly Opinions Editor As science has progressed, so has our fear of science. It seems as if every other day, a new buzzword comes out to describe the chemicals which we are putting into our bodies, separating them into the categories of good and bad. However, as many of us learned in school, science is not a simple subject. This means that our categorization … Continue reading An Organic Problem – The Validity of Hydroponics
Kaetlyn Dembkoski Staff Writer In the time that Trump has occupied the White House, the changes made to immigration and the laws originally coupled with it have been drastic. While debates occur in the government over whom to accept as a citizen, it is easy to forget that these inhabitants are people. As per decades of U.S. immigration policy, the U.S. used to call for … Continue reading Yes, We Need Immigration
Brianna Wilson Staff Writer The language we are using to discuss DACA recipients and their families is one that privileges innocence while condemning people based on race. We assume the worst of those parents when many Americans, especially those who supported the termination of DACA, have never feared for the lives and futures of their children. Who are we to judge them when we know … Continue reading A Nation of Immigrants is Who We Are
Krysten Heberly Staff Writer With the rise of modern medicine, average human life expectancy has increased drastically in first world countries. We are living longer than ever, and can now survive for years longer than our ancestors did due to the technology of the modern age. Yet, as with any technology, this has its advantages and disadvantages. While we are living longer lives, these lives … Continue reading A Time to Be Born, A Time to Die
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