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Transphobia remains a pressing issue in the American education system

McKenna Parker, Staff Writer • September 30, 2022

Content Warning: Transphobia, suicide, anxiety, depression The 2015 National School Climate Survey sampled transgender youth across the nation to unveil that 75% of transgender middle school and high...

Crisis, conflict reporting unveils bias in western media

Anjali Noel Ramesh, Editor in Chief • May 13, 2022

In a live report from Kyiv, Ukraine Feb. 25, Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata said “But [Kyiv] isn’t a place, with all due respect, like Iraq or Afghanistan,...

Fetishization drives violence against Asian women

Julia Kim, Staff Writer • April 7, 2022

Content Warning: Anti-Asian racism, misogyny, sexual violence On March 16, 2021, eight people were shot and killed by a white man in Atlanta massage parlors, six of the victims being Asian women. The...

The female gaze counteracts existing standards in cinema

Allison Kim • December 20, 2021

In every visual representation in media consumed, the creator controls the perspective through which audiences view the work. The female and male gazes are two defined examples, primarily found and discussed concerning cinema, of said perspectives intentionally curated to guide how viewers are meant to engage with the content.

The 27 Club glorifies premature death in the music industry

Shubha Gautam, News Editor • December 3, 2021

Jim Morrison, the charismatic lead singer and songwriter for the ‘60s rock band The Doors, was a detached, extremely intelligent loner as a kid who would spend his time agitating reserved peers and devouring...

Development of the metaverse describes a “new social media”

Brandt Stewart, Sports Editor • December 1, 2021

L. Bob Rife’s cable television network, which has replaced the phone network, is the entrance into a world of technology, the urban city setting of which is established on a featureless black sphere along the one hundred meters wide “Street,” stretching 65536 kilometers. Users within this online universe are clad in portable terminals and VR goggles, nicknamed “gargoyles,” because of their distorted features. This is the metaverse. Or at least as Neal Stevenson describes it in his dystopian novel, “Snow Crash”, published in 1992.

Americans’ obsessive indulgence in true crime media desensitizes the tragedy of real world events

Shubha Gautam • November 9, 2021

The presumed starting point of America’s allure to true crime dates back to the Puritan execution sermons detailing the appalling acts of executed persons of the 17th and 18th centuries, the time of Jack the Ripper and the publishing of “The Studies of Murder” by Edmund Pearson in 1924. The publication of the non-fiction book “In Cold Blood” by Truman Capote in 1966, detailing the impact and event of the 1959 murder of a family from a small community in rural Kansas, officially established true crime fascination in the U.S. In 1974, Charles Bugliosi, the prosecutor for the Manson murders case, set the precedent for books on criminal trials with “Helter Skelter.”

Halloween fosters self-expression with limits

Nora Crutcher-McGowan • November 4, 2021

America has its fair share of stuffy rules and social norms, but “Halloween is the one time of year a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girl can say anything about it.” Cady Heron from “Mean Girls” was sort of right. Maybe not about the “slut” comment, but more so about self-expression and the costume aspect of the holiday.

Billionaires in space: commercial space travel takes over future of industry

Anjali Noel Ramesh • November 4, 2021

In an ambitious mission starting a new era of commercial space travel, English business magnate Richard Branson, became the first person to launch into space in a craft funded in part by his own money Monday, June 12 2021.

Anti-capitalism defines queer liberation, justice

Julia Kim • November 3, 2021

Mainstream Pride, often associated with Pride Month, is one of many movements that pushes for the normalization of the LBGTQ+ community in society today. Some of the many participants of the mainstream movement include artists such as Taylor Swift with her hit song “You Need to Calm Down” and corporations like Macy’s and Doc Martens in their annual pride merchandise. The struggle for inclusion, however, continues to celebrate queer liberation at the surface level through the lens of commercialization, consumerism and the movement’s palatability toward cisgender, heterosexual audiences.

Normalization of everything: misapplication of language creates confusion, ineffective activism

Allison Kim • November 2, 2021

In the past five years, “normalization,” as a word and idea, has gained currency throughout social media discourse, with people very quickly applying its use to facets of politics and activism. The term has since evolved to hold the influence it carries today as a mantra for issues calling for social reform.

What to know about the U.S. retreat from Afghanistan, expectations for the future

Anjali Noel Ramesh • October 28, 2021

As of Aug. 30, 2021, President Joe Biden successfully removed all United States (U.S.) armed forces from Afghan soil, following former President Donald Trump’s deal with the Taliban, an Islamist political and military organization.