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Opinion

The Death Penalty

Is It Time To Get Rid Of The Death Penalty?

By Nicholas Coleman May 9, 2017

The death penalty is a crude, antiquated form of punishment that should be entirely disavowed. On Thursday, April 27, Kenneth Williams took his last breath as he lay strapped to a bed in a musty prison...

Remakes And Sequels Aren't Getting Old

Remakes And Sequels Aren’t Getting Old

By Alisa Patience May 9, 2017

Dystopian futures, children with special powers, a group of friends who rule the school, a misunderstood character who wants to take over the world. These are just some of the many tropes that are repeated...

An Omnivore Hero

An Omnivore Hero

By Lydia Morley May 2, 2017

Vegetarianism, or worse, veganism, has become extremely popular recently. Often associated with a more moral or benevolent lifestyle, vegetarianism has also become a feasible diet option for many in the...

What Hillary Can Learn From George W.

What Hillary Can Learn From George W.

By Alex Judd May 2, 2017

Late last year, the Clintons and Bushes were on opposite trajectories. Hillary Clinton was dominating presidential polls and planning was already underway, prematurely as it would turn out, to celebrate...

Lessons I've Learned As a Freshman In College

Lessons I’ve Learned As a Freshman In College

By Alisa Patience May 2, 2017

Classes are about to end, but the damage from the mental stress will remain with me forever. In addition to the fact that the world is flooding, we're going to blow ourselves up and that artists in the...

Graphic by Zac Fox

Learning a Routine for Comfortable Writing

By Sean Williams April 28, 2017

When trying to refine my writing, one thing I learned was that the advice I’d been offered was deceptively simple. You can often hear people say how you have to “just go for it” with writing, to...

Negative Views of Piercings and Tattoos Should Be Re-examined

Negative Views of Piercings and Tattoos Should Be Re-examined

By Alisa Patience April 28, 2017

For years tattoos and piercings have been stereotyped as negative and as a sign of a criminal personality. There are several TV shows about tattoo art, and according to most surveys, just thirty percent...

Fearless Girl Statue Strikes Fear In Men

Fearless Girl Statue Strikes Fear In Men

By Alisa Patience April 26, 2017

On March 7, 2017, a statue was put up on Wall Street across from the symbolic Charging Bull. This statue, called “Fearless Girl,” is a simple bronze statue of a little girl, facing the bull, hands...

Farewell, Good Night and Good Luck

Farewell, Good Night and Good Luck

By Brad Bennion, Julie Hirschi, and Kamryn Broschinsky April 26, 2017

Julie Hirschi Editor-in-chief I had a dream, shortly after Jon Stewart was leaving The Daily Show, where I was hanging out at his house just chilling with him. He had let himself go, no longer in a suit...

The Ins and Outs of Flexibility

The Ins and Outs of Flexibility

By Bailey Shelden April 25, 2017

It is no great secret that every person has a different level of physical flexibility. There are people that will likely never do the splits or anything resembling the splits in their life. Generally speaking,...