Opinions
eating
Is organic food really that great?
The organic food industry is on the rise and claims to have both environmental and animal benefits. However, new data and statistics disagree. What does organic exactly mean? An “organic” label means that 95 percent of the ingredients are organic, while the label “made with organic ingredients” applies to products with at least 70 percent […]
Mangelsdorf
Mangelsdorf promising, but faces challenges
For now we are cautiously optimistic, but actions speak louder than words. Read More
Shutdown
The shutdown mystery
Last night, when I was looking at the graph of Trump’s approval rating on FiveThirtyEight, my friend Charles said it reminded him of a brainwave activity graph. There’s no clear logic to any of the movements up and down, and past a certain point, the numbers don’t really stray beyond what’s expected from the random […]
New Year
New Year’s resolutions are inherently Sisyphean
I tend to approach the New Year and new beginnings with optimism, but that is completely baseless considering the lack of past successes I have had. Yet I annually hope and try to be better. I always hold the naive notion that this year will be different, despite all my previous failures. Whether my resolution […]
study
The stakes are lower than you think
Sleep and diet can fall by the wayside when a cumulative exam remains to be studied for. Read More
accents
Living with a foreign accent
Accepting that people sound different and embracing them for that reason is important. We are a generation of different languages, dialects, and accents with code-switching as our way of life. Read More
study
We put study spaces in their places
With finals just around the corner, we’ve compiled our rankings of some major study spaces on campus, from worst to best. Read More
gender
Frat parties aren’t free
Ah, I love the smell of female objectification in the morning! Or the afternoon, or the nighttime, (because it happens all the time, after all). Read More
