When I was approached by Weather Vane staff members Friday evening about the paper putting out a statement calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, I was initially hesitant. First and …
Opinion
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Living Well is Not Helping Me to Live Well
Hello, reader! Would you like to take a class that is similar to both the mundane middle school health classes and your first-year gym class? Well, do I have the …
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Editorial: Finding Your New Home
Spring Break is coming soon; some people will go home for a week. But, what is home? If you are heading back home, what is your definition of home? Is …
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The Politics of Lighting Yourself on Fire
“Many of us like to ask ourselves, ‘What would I do if I was alive during slavery? Or the Jim Crow South? Or apartheid? What would I do if my …
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Editorial: Chipping Away at the Echo Chamber
My freshman year, I participated in an exercise where I had to pick ten adjectives out of 200 laid out in front of me on a table that I would …
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The History of the Overarching LGBTQ+ Flags
Pride flags are a large part of modern queer identification and symbolism. Over time, there have been many variations of pride flags, and many pride flags have been created to …
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Is This It…
… is the debut album from the now-prestigious New York rock band, The Strokes. Its release to North American audiences in October 2001 was met with swathes of unprecedented acclaim—a …
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Wit & Wise : An Advice Column
Prompt: “I tried impressing my crush by doing a backflip while entering the lecture hall, but I ended up hitting her in the face. How do I gracefully bounce back …
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OPINION: NFL Twitter is Quickly Worsening
This NFL season, I would say I’ve generally been unimpressed by NFL Twitter (I refuse to call it X), and NFL social media in general. Social media brain rot seems …
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The Importance of Queer Inclusion
We have begun a new semester, which for many of us means new classes and, as I am sure we all love (not really), introductions. In many of my classes, …