According to popular and expert opinion, last Tuesday’s elections went exactly as expected — the Democrats won the House and made decent gains in state legislatures. The general assumption of the public is that U.S. institutions of government, like bodies of water, experience red low …
Reform gun law for public safety
Gun reform in the United States is a contentious issue, but it should be an issue that unites the American people. It is an outrage that our government refuses to acknowledge the gravity of these occurrences. As of Nov. 8 2018, there were 307 shootings …
Leftists view electoral politics differently
Leftism, as an ideology and as a movement, is separate and purposefully detached from the political identities of liberals and Democrats. Essentially, leftism, in one form or another, seeks to distance itself from or entirely eliminate the prioritization of free market policies and naturally eliminate …
Smartwater is environmentally damaging
Smartwater, a Coca-Cola product that is marketed as a better alternative to water, is sold across campus. What makes it supposedly “better” is how it is made, via a process called “vapor distillation,” which is just condensing water vapor into liquid water. If this sounds …
OLAS and C.O.W. Amnesty International host Fireside Chat
Zoe Covey Features Editor On Monday, Nov. 12, the Organization of Latin American Students (OLAS) and Amnesty International C.O.W. chapter hosted an event in Lowry Center about the state of immigration policy and asylum seekers in the United States over the past several months. Called …
FYS fights inequality with community engagement
Larissa Lamarca Contributing Writer This semester the Global Health and Inequality First Year Seminar (FYS) led by Dr. Brooke Krause of the economics department has been working hard to put together a Giving Tuesday fundraiser and has done much more with their class time and …