Snow day woes: a call for Kirkwood to adapt finals
Lily Bartin, VoK editor
December 17, 2019
A snow day is usually a cause for universal excitement among students, but on Sunday, Dec. 15, the announcement was met with widespread anxiety. Monday’s snow day would eliminate a valuable day of review before finals week. When Tuesday, was called off as well, panic intensified. KSD announced that...
Simple tips to ‘Treat Yo Self’
Kiden-Aloyse Smith, copy editor
December 9, 2019
Self-care. The internet took it and ran with it to cover up many underlying issues surrounding mental health. According to Vice in “The Young and the Uncared For,” the rise of self care and the “treat yo-self” movement has taken a toxic form that hasn’t been helpful to people going through m...
The Brain Issue: Seeing double
Meg Murphy, vok editor
November 11, 2019
“Which twin are you?” “How do I tell you apart?” “Are you going to the same college?” “Who is older?” These are questions I get asked daily. Do I get tired of it? Yes. Do I tell people that? No. My identical twin Grace and I, are the youngest of six kids. My parents were completely ...
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...
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