“How can you read that?” one of my friends asked me the other day, as I was reading about the recent Florida school shooting. “I could never read that. Isn’t …
Opinion
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Editorial: Pressure of Choosing Children
Grow up, meet the right person, settle down, have kids, then watch your kids do the same thing you did. This is the cycle of life as idolized by the …
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Change Societal Glorification of Alcohol
Many people look towards their 21st birthday with anticipation. As is commonly known, it is the age in the United States when alcohol can legally be purchased and consumed. Now, …
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Ridiculousness of Life in Absurd Theater
In 1961, a Hungarian-born English writer by the name of Martin Esslin coined the phrase “Theater of the Absurd” in an essay of the same name. He talks about Samuel …
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Time for Action and Data in Gun Control
Two years ago, while I was practicing with my tennis team at Hesston College, eighteen people were shot 400 yards away from where I stood. Since then I have done …
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Gerrymandering Prevents Representation
During the trainwreck that is our current governmental situation — and this is certainly a trainwreck of an administration, with a revolving door of a West Wing, no cohesive message …
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Power Is the Problem in Gender Inequality
I have been deeply troubled over the past few months as more and more allegations of sexual assault have surfaced all around us. It seems that no industry can hide …
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Your Character Is Not Defined by Tattoos
There are many different reasons that someone would get tattoos or piercings. Many people assume that it is something negative because of the stigma of them that has grown throughout …
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End the Us War on Drugs
Growing up in the United States, it is very unlikely that by the time we are ready to go to college we have not encountered some kind of drug. This …
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Editorial: Removing Literary Merit Label
In literature classes and other similar settings, the fiction read there is often referred to as “literary fiction” to distinguish it from common fiction, or “genre fiction.” But what does …