The Brain Issue: Seeing double
Meg Murphy, vok editor
November 11, 2019
From sharing a room to running cross country together, my identical twin, Grace, and I, have been best friends since the beginning. Whether it be our differences or our similarities, we enjoy being twins.
Minority Whip: Setting Obama’s record straight
Wolfgang Frick, design editor
September 10, 2019
The media likes to say that Obama's record was scandal-free. It wasn't. Here are a few of his most prominent failures.
Minority Whip: Earth’s lungs are burning?
Wolfgang Frick, design editor
September 2, 2019
The Amazon rainforest isn't actually Earth's lungs, and it's not in any imminent danger. So why is everyone outraged?
Equal pay: one goal the U.S. women’s national soccer team should score
Maddie Meyers, editor-in-chief
August 19, 2019
The U.S. women's national soccer team won the 2019 World Cup and it is more successful than its male counterparts, but there is a huge pay disparity.
“Those poor kids in Africa”
Thomas Birmingham, print editor
April 19, 2019
The first time I remember hearing it was in fifth grade. “Those poor kids in Africa.” When the Student Council leaders at my Catholic school said those words, they were presenting the latest school-wide service project to my class: raising $1,000 to send food provisions to a small town in...
Go ask your mom
Olivia Silvey, staff designer
March 31, 2019
We were in the car driving back from one of my weekly therapy sessions, and my mom started talking about Suzan, her best friend at the time. She took a deep breath and said she had to tell me something. “Suzan and I… are dating,” she said. “I knew it! I knew it!” (because I had, in fact, pre...
Promposals
Catherine Butler, opinions writer
March 29, 2019
He holds a giant stuffed bear in one hand and a sign in the other. The shiny white poster board decked out in bright block letters spells “Prom would be unBEARable without you.” As he approaches her and begins to read the sign, everything seems to be going smoothly. Suddenly, she rushes into the n...
Sex has no place in sports
Benji Wilton, sports editor
February 26, 2019
It’s an easy sell: sculpted supermodels posing in exotic locations wearing little to no clothing, right at the fingertips of anyone willing to fork over a few dollars. Every year, Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Edition brings in about 7 percent of revenue for the renowned publication, according to F...
In defense of the Oxford comma
Annie O'Brien, health and wellness editor
February 25, 2019
It shows up in elementary school classrooms, in books, and on the reading and English sections of the ACT. Among the publications that dislike it are The New York Times, Time Magazine, and The Kirkwood Call. The Oxford comma is a hotly disputed topic in the world of journalism and writing. But the truth ...
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