Op-Ed

Op-Ed: More Greta Gerwig, Please

Op-Ed: More Greta Gerwig, Please

Arts and Entertainment, Op-Ed February 20, 2018 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

By Kitty Williams | Co-Editor-in-Chief On January 7th, stars were gathered at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the 75th Golden Globes. Natalie Portman and Ron Howard presented the nominees for Best Director. Certainly breaking from the teleprompter in front of her, Portman leaned into the microphone and said, “Here are the all male nominees.” [Enter Lady Bird] Greta Gerwig isRead More

Op-ed: How Mass Murder Informs Entertainment

Op-ed: How Mass Murder Informs Entertainment

Op-Ed February 20, 2018 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

By Henry Nickerson | Associate Editor In a recent Facebook post, my former high school teacher, Mr. Gregory Buckman, shared a story of him informing his students about the recent Parkland, Florida school shooting which left 17 dead. In response to the news, one student noted, “It’s just a shooting. Not like it’s a terrorist attack.” The response, while unsettling,Read More

Op-Ed: Sex for the Seoul?

Op-Ed: Sex for the Seoul?

Op-Ed, World February 20, 2018 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

By Hannah Lussier | Managing Editor You thought that the material to celebrate at this Olympics would be gold? It turns out that it’s actually latex. Since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, the world has consistently acknowledged one thing: Olympic athletes have sex. At that event, as a result of the worldwide AIDS crisis, athletes were suppliedRead More

Op-Ed: Let the Games Begin

Op-Ed: Let the Games Begin

Op-Ed, World February 20, 2018 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

By Kerry Hayes | Staff Writer If I have learned anything in all my years of watching the Winter Olympics it is that: 1) every single country in the world, has incredibly hot athletes, and 2) I am more than qualified to judge them on their performance that they have been training their entire lives for, from the comfort ofRead More

Op-Ed: Homeless Dehumanization, My Weekend in D.C.

Op-Ed: Homeless Dehumanization, My Weekend in D.C.

Nation, Op-Ed, World November 7, 2017 at 12:00 am Comments are Disabled

by Henry Nickerson | Public Relations Coordinator On October 26th, group of fellow students and I in the Nuala Pell Leadership Program traveled to Washington D.C. for a series of meetings with leaders from around the world. I was in awe at the beauty of the city and was immediately swept into its fast-paced culture. In D.C., the close relationshipRead More