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
Krysten Heberly Staff Writer To discuss the heroes of 9/11 is a complex issue. Those who worked towards providing relief were heroes to those who were in need. Those who sacrificed from within the twin towers were heroes to the security they protected. The men who were responsible for orchestrating and carrying out the fall of the twin towers were heroes to their own cause. … Continue reading We Could Be Heroes
Andrew Oliver Staff Writer The landlord profession, by its very nature, is a problematic one. The landlord, whether their morals and intentions are in the right place or not, thrive off of and sustain an immoral system in which tenants are seeing less and less control over their living spaces due to being more financially burdened and more desperate to find places to live, according … Continue reading Renters Rise Up
Nicholas Tyler Staff Writer Over the past few decades, China has expanded its interests across the developing world, especially Africa, as its state-sponsored companies and contractors have laid down roots. Some see it as a new benevolence; others, a new colonialism. In either case, China isn’t looking to start a war with anyone. Their ventures in Africa do not directly threaten the United States. Rattling … Continue reading China Means Business
Annie Walker Opinions Editor Perhaps one of the most familiar mottos of the environmental movement is the trusty line of ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.’ The alliterative trio makes the difficult task of personally challenging climate change seem manageable. Despite being presented to us as a set of three, only one action of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle fame is regularly incorporated into the lives of Americans. Conflating recycling … Continue reading Recycling Won’t Fix Everything
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