Behind the Vape Cloud
Every day I see friends taking hits anywhere from a dining hall to McHenry Library. My Snapchat feed is full of classmates blowing Os and doing french inhales. They take selfies while enjoying the sweet smell of the vapor that lingers in the air, but...
We Get It, You Went to Paris
When an arsonist burned three Black churches between March 26 and April 4 in the St. Landry Parish in Louisiana, most prominent news feeds were silent. But the world wasted no time mourning the loss of a historic French cathedral. The Notre Dame Cathedral in...
Open Access for All
Researchers spend months, often years, developing their work before sharing their findings with the world. Once they go through a publication company they often lose the rights to their research. Readers must pay to read their work and the researchers still don’t make a profit....
I Am Not a Doll
There is a difference between giving someone a compliment and exoticizing them. When people use “cute” at an inappropriate time, it can change a seemingly innocuous phrase into a backhanded slap. It’s an emotional hit that leaves a memory like a stain. For me, it was...
Let Puerto Rico Decide
About 97 percent of voters in Puerto Rico voted in favor of statehood in a nonbinding referendum in 2017. The U.S. federal government disregarded the vote, neglecting Puerto Ricans’ call for representation. This undermines any remaining claim of democracy our country can make. Christopher Columbus...
Religious Health Care has No Place at UC
Doctors pledge to do no harm, but at Dignity Health piety outweighs medical responsibility. On several campuses, the UC partners with the Catholic health care company. Dignity Health’s care is bound to the teachings of the church and the directives of the United States Conference...
The UC is Committed to Free Speech, Not to Students
Students feeling safe and represented on campus comes second to upholding free speech at the UC. The UC Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement held its inaugural #SpeechMatters conference on March 21 in Washington D.C., which I and about 30 other UC students attended....
A Bachelor’s Degree in White Privilege
The college admissions scandal of 2019 revealed which of the following: A) White privilege in college admissions B) Racial inequalities in prosecution for white collar crimes C) It is ridiculous to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to get accepted to an elite institution when...
Why is Nobody Talking About the Internment of Uyghur Muslims?
China is enforcing apartheid, and not enough people are talking about it. The Uyghur people are being put into concentration camps for being Muslim, but China is calling it “re-education.”
First Amendment, Last Priority
Ever get that eerie feeling that somebody is watching you? So did a number of activists, lawyers and journalists whose work has focused on Central American asylum seekers. It wasn’t until this month they found out the government had been compiling a concerning number of...