Resolved to Fail: Why Your New Year’s Goals Never Stick and How to be Better in 2021
By Lily Vining || Staff Writer Hi there. I spoke with your future self, and you let me in on a secret: You know that New Year’s Resolution to exercise…
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By Lily Vining || Staff Writer Hi there. I spoke with your future self, and you let me in on a secret: You know that New Year’s Resolution to exercise…
By Xinghan Ma || Contributing Writer 2020 is about to end. From history, we have learned how an infectious disease can endanger the whole human civilization, yet still, our society…
By Jack Gilroy || Contributing Writer Holy cow… what a year 2020 has been. One that anyone who lived through it will look back on and remember for the rest…
By Hongyuan Guo || Contributing Writer The number of years is never important; what’s important is our experiences. Experiences made this year special for me. At the start of the…
By Ellyn Fritz || News Editor In my mother’s group chat with her college friends, one topic of conversation during the contentious days of the election was the recent New…
By Gianfranco Iaia || Contributing Writer While President Trump may no longer occupy the residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in a couple of months, his ideological legacy will have a…
By Samantha Milowitz || Op-Eds Editor On the morning of November 7th, I woke up and Joe Biden was elected the 46th president of the United States. After four days…
By Jonathan Izzo || Contributing Writer Although Joe Biden is the new president-elect, our fight has only begun. We, the United States citizens, have to remember and recognize that both…
By Ashani Williams || Layout Assistant It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas Everywhere you go Take a look at the five and ten, it’s glistening once again With…
By Erin Maxwell || Layout Assistant On January 20, 2021, President-Elect Joe Biden will be sworn into the highest office, following what may be the most divisive and aggressive election…
By Samantha Milowitz || Op-Eds Editor They say that when tragedy strikes, that is when you get to see the true strength of people: the unwillingness to back down, to…
By Kate McBride || Contributing Writer Let me start by making one thing crystal clear: the 2020 election will go down in history as one of the most polarized, divisive…
By Ashani Williams || Layout Assistant With the election right around the corner, it is very common to hear our political leaders discuss “the Black vote.” But, what is the…
By Sarah Nicell || Layout Assistant For many this election season, choosing a candidate has been a struggle beyond compare. Deciding between two rich white men with problematic histories seems…
By Kate McBride || Contributing Writer This morning, I decided to take a stroll around campus. Seldom do I pause my “hustle and bustle” to take a deep breath, and…