Op-Ed

Amazon and Tolkien’s Vision: The Case Against “The Rings of Power”

Amazon and Tolkien’s Vision: The Case Against “The Rings of Power”

Op-Ed, Uncategorized October 12, 2022 at 8:00 am Comments are Disabled

By: Jane Benz | Staff Writer Is the art of film in decline? Can endings no longer be endings? Can a work of art be great without being done violence? Resurrected endlessly for profit until it is no longer great? Do we need a new Lord of the Rings saga? And by Amazon, no less? Our relationship with the mediaRead More

Op-Ed: The Heap Problem and How One Philosophical Dilemma has Created Nearly All of America’s Political Division

Op-Ed: The Heap Problem and How One Philosophical Dilemma has Created Nearly All of America’s Political Division

Op-Ed September 29, 2022 at 2:41 pm Comments are Disabled

By: Thomas Langan | Staff Writer Imagine yourself standing in front of a clean table. Sitting on the table is a small bucket of dry sand. You take the bucket and pour it out onto the table. Setting aside the bucket, you examine your handiwork. Instead of a bucket, you have created a heap of sand. If we can agreeRead More

Op-Ed: Salve’s Lifted Mask Mandate is a Step Toward Normalcy

Op-Ed: Salve’s Lifted Mask Mandate is a Step Toward Normalcy

Op-Ed March 4, 2022 at 4:08 pm Comments are Disabled

By: Liam W. Cooney | Staff Writer “Effective at 8 a.m. Thursday, March 3, masks will be optional inside Salve Regina buildings, with a few exceptions.” This was the highlight of the email that hit everyone’s inboxes around 2:30PM this past Wednesday, March 2. In this monumental email, the University stated the following: “Throughout the course of this pandemic, ourRead More

Op-Ed: Tom Brady’s Retirement Farewell is Heartbreaking… and Disappointing

Op-Ed: Tom Brady’s Retirement Farewell is Heartbreaking… and Disappointing

Op-Ed February 14, 2022 at 4:17 pm Comments are Disabled

By: Eilis O’Neil | Social Media Manager I knew this day would come, but I was not expecting it for another season or hopefully two. January 29, 2022, was a dark day for New England Patriot fans as Tom Brady officially came out with his retirement announcement, following news sources making the announcement earlier in the week. Initially, when BradyRead More

TikTok vs. Reality: First Semester of Freshman Year

TikTok vs. Reality: First Semester of Freshman Year

Op-Ed December 21, 2021 at 2:43 pm Comments are Disabled

By: Emma Liarikos | Staff Writer TikTok trends are very seasonal; they tend to come and go as they please. Some are funny, others sad. Some are about love and relationships, and others about something you might have a lot of knowledge on. (Are YOU a Nikki fan?) One of the more recent trends is a semester recap. As theRead More