If a pandemic won’t stop police brutality, what will?
Yasmine Pascal, Features Editor
May 29, 2020
There has been a long history of police brutality against black people in America, from shooting unarmed black men, like Greg Gunn in the street or Stephon Clark in his grandmother’s backyard - and most recently the death of George Floyd in Minnesota. During this global pandemic, politicians have call...
Prisoners deserve better during COVID
Sophia Van Beek, Copy-Editor
May 21, 2020
In an Alabama state prison, an anonymous man is hunched over a camera pleading for his life; another inmate claims that “death is imminent” according to a CNN report. One hundred inmates rioted for their lives when six people at the Washington State Penitentiary tested positive for COVID-19, accordin...
Worth more lives, now, lives worth more
Andrew Mitchell, Contributing Writer
May 5, 2020
100 years ago, soldiers were marched into battle as pawns, in a greater international chess game. Human lives were deemed expendable, with the greater goal of victory dictating the death count. Almost 20 million soldiers in WWI, and over 50 million soldiers in WW2, were classified as casualties; they were a si...
COVID-19 gives us the perfect opportunity to change our environmentalist attitude
M. Brody Leo, News Editor
May 1, 2020
A few days ago, a picture of a crystal-clear Venice canal popped onto my Instagram feed with a caption explaining that with no boats stirring up sediment, the waterways have become hospitable to all sorts of creatures. Of course, my face lit up when I saw that bright post after a couple of dark weeks i...
Embracing ‘little’ distractions in times of disorder
Mattilynn Stone, Photographer and Illustration Editor
May 1, 2020
In the midst of our world’s current pandemic, life has been uprooted in every way possible, from online school to stay-at-home orders. After the dorms were closed, I moved back in with my family. Little did I know that I would be worrying about things like child care as a high schooler. In...
Supporting survivors should not be partisan
Nora Fellas, Opinion Lead Editor
April 24, 2020
Amidst allegations of sexual assault and a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 2018, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court with 50-48 votes, the narrowest margin in modern history. Only one Republican senator voted against the conservative justice, and only one Democrat ...
‘Don’t be a cutie pie,’ President Trump; act like a leader!
Logan Schiciano, Editor-in-Chief
March 28, 2020
You would never see a high school principal talk about how much they hate the geometry teacher at a school-wide assembly. But President Trump has been bringing his schoolyard beef to the national stage daily, amidst a crisis that has seen over 1,500 American lives lost. He is wasting time fighting wit...
What the coronavirus teaches us about climate change
Nora Fellas, Opinion Lead Editor
March 24, 2020
If you had told me in February that I would have been in self-quarantine for the last two weeks and stuck in my house for the foreseeable future, I wouldn’t have believed you. Despite the headlines about the coronavirus in China, which has been reporting cases since December 2019, most Americans con...
Second semester should be pass/fail to relieve student stress during coronavirus pandemic
Sophie Grand, Opinion Editor
March 23, 2020
With remote learning replacing classroom teaching during the coronavirus pandemic, teachers and students are attempting to navigate their way through new online learning platforms such as Zoom and Google Meet. During this unprecedented and chaotic time, students cannot just be expected to go along wi...
The coronavirus is not a meme; it’s serious
Logan Schiciano, Editor-in-Chief
March 22, 2020
While people across the country appear to be respecting guidelines to stay at home and “social distance,” this practice is understandably not all that much fun. With people getting bored in the past few days, many challenges have spread across Instagram – much like the virus – in an attempt to ...
Should I stay or should I go?
Tim Mathas, Opinion Editor
March 22, 2020
I have been practicing social distancing for over two weeks, starting on Friday, March 6. Not a single member of my family has left my house since then, and we now know that nobody in my family has contracted COVID-19 as the two-week incubation period has already passed. That said, we still are going t...
America needs a strong, centralized government in this national emergency
M. Brody Leo, News Editor
March 18, 2020
The United States prides itself on upholding democratic principles in all facets of daily life – among them are individual liberty, self-rule and self-determination. But in times of crisis, like the pandemic we face today, the hands-off approach of the federal government does more harm than good. Th...