Opinions

Why Tom Brady just can’t retire in peace

There is talk of $16 million on the line if Brady retires immediately, but inevitably, the question that isn’t being asked is: Why do we need to know? Read More

This is what cancel culture taken too far actually looks like

The right absolutely loves it when the left eats their own. Because it makes us weaker. Read More

Self-care has to start from the shoes up

I may like to say that my vice is funky footwear, but really, I just don’t want to have to take care of myself. Read More

Finding home

I was suspended in limbo — neither Rochester nor my hometown was truly “home.” Read More

The Chaplin Disease: Joss Whedon and power

Whedon sees himself as a feminist because he idolizes the feminine. All he asks is that he be worshipped as a god, because as a man, he doesn’t really hold up to criticism. Read More

The smells of cigarettes and alcohol

I never believed my parents to be addicts. Or maybe I did notice, but it never seemed wrong. Read More

The “P” in PC culture is not “promotion”

With no activism to reinforce the support specifically being mentioned in their post, that support is hypothetical at best. Read More

COVID is my normal

I first knew that COVID-19 would define my time in college in an iZone conference room, of all places. Read More

2022 is “MY” year

Isn’t it absolutely bonkers that every year, we subject ourselves to the idea of keeping up with one particular “promise” for the entire year, when most of us can’t even stick to the same Starbucks order for more than a week? Read More

We need to stop undervaluing our student workers

It’s terrifyingly normal for university administrations to undervalue their student workers, especially in the profit-driven world of private universities like UR. Student workers and their needs are simply never a priority. Read More