Laura Haley Chief Copy Editor On April 28, the Global and International Studies (G&IS) department hosted a roundtable discussion titled “Contextualizing Pandemic” via Zoom for current and admitted students from the class of 2024. The meeting featured G&IS professors, Matthew Krain of the political science …
Academic policies change for 2020 Spring Semester due to COVID-19 pandemic
Waverly Hart Editor in Chief Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the move to online learning, the Educational Policy Committee (EPC) has made several major changes to the academic policy for the 2020 Spring Semester. Many of the changes relate to a student’s ability to …
The Weeknd’s concept album “After Hours” combines genres, decades with artist’s cathartic, personal experience
Kamal Morgan Senior A&E Writer A journey of reconciling with love and doubt blends with a blast from the past with ’80s beats. The future blending together is a new sound for Abel, aka The Weeknd’s newest album “After Hours.” His silky voice over the …
Class of 2020 deserves better communication about graduation plans
Claire Montgomery Senior News Writer I don’t think I am alone in thinking that our administration went above and beyond in the initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We were sent information as quickly as it came, there were in-person meetings and then online meetings, …
Administration should have consulted students when making commencement decision
Marco Roccato Contributing Writer The Class of 2020 has been and is a group of incredible people. Students from the Class of 2020 have been scholars and community leaders: they created unique research projects, they led student organizations through years of changes, they stuck with …
A quick-fix solution isn’t the way to plan commencement
Brandon Borges Contributing Writer The uncertainty of COVID-19 has severely impacted administrative planning across the world. International, national, state and even local administrators of all organizations are currently at the whims of the virus, with events of all types being postponed for an arbitrary date …