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Textbook trauma

Since midterms are over, students have been in their classes long enough to gauge whether or not they will actually use the hundred-dollar textbooks they…

Triggering a change

Everyone seems to have something to say about college students and their perceived growing sensitivity. There is a slew of public figures who think this generation…

Roommate repercussions

Freshman year of college comes with a plethora of anxieties. Faced with many drastic changes, new students worry about exams, making friends, moving in, but most…

Advice for advising

The middle of October is a difficult month for students, as they are preparing for, or finishing up, their midterm exams and are just starting…

‘Tis the season for cultural appropriation

Halloween: pumpkins, candies and racially insensitive costumes! As the days leading up to Halloween begin to slip away, people rush to browse the aisles of…

College: save up to 100%

The College for All Act that was proposed by presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders is geared towards increasing the accessibility of education for high school…

A call to no arms

This past week, a student entered Umpqua Community College in Oregon and killed ten students. Like many other shooters before him, he struggled with mental health…

Prisoners needed

The number of incarcerated people in America has more than quadrupled since 1980. As a result, a handful of states have turned to private prisons…

Problems with price gouging

Price gouging is a sometimes criminal offense in which a seller drastically raises the value of necessary goods to an unfair cost in which people have…

Putin needs to drop Assad and pick up Obama

Russian President Vladimir Putin conducted air strikes in Syria last week. Originally he had claimed that the air strikes only targeted Islamic State areas, but…