Elyse Evans Contributing Writer Picture this: It’s a Tuesday night in late September, and you sit down with your roommates to watch the first 2020 presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. If you were one of the unlucky …
Viewpoints
The Viewpoints page features the opinions of the campus community. Viewpoints articles should be 350-700 words and be about any opinion, funny or serious, about campus or the world around us. Letters to the Editor, which also are on our page, should be no more than 150 words, usually responding to articles either in Viewpoints or elsewhere in the paper.
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Despite debate, Trump is still the best option
Katie Fields Contributing Writer For those who watched the debate, there is a general consensus that it was, at best, borderline chaotic. Although Trump made multiple firm arguments throughout the debate, such as Biden’s inability to draw large crowds to his rallies, many would …
Write an I.S. that matters to you
Olivia Proe Chief Copy Editor Content Warning: Suicide and mental health challenges For seniors, Independent Study (I.S.) is just as much a daunting paper as it is a passion project. To write an undergraduate thesis about something, you must truly care about it …
The “climate clock” takes the wrong approach
Cambry Baker Contributing Writer From September 19-27, a temporary “Climate Clock” in Manhattan’s Union Square counted down the years, days, hours, minutes and seconds left until we are unable to avert climate disaster. You probably saw it — it’s hard to miss the large, …
Letter from the Editors: Election Season
Maggie Dougherty View Points Editor Makeda Teklemichael View Points Editor Chloe Burdette Editor in Chief Samuel Casey Editor in Chief Megan Tuennerman Managing Editor Dear Scots, As the 2020 presidential election draws closer, we recognize that political polarization is higher than usual. In an …
Don’t give up on making friends in a pandemic
Makeda Teklemichael Viewpoints Editor I always hear actors speak about how in romance movies you have to read their eyes, because they say eyes speak better than words. Of course, that just seemed like something too cliché to me at the time, but wouldn’t …