Between the April 2007 Virginia Tech shooting and a 2018 evaluation conducted by the school’s newspaper, The Collegiate Times, there were an estimated 122 deaths by shooting and 198 individuals injured by gunfire on college campuses. An additional 26 people committed suicide by firearm on campus in the ten year span. These incidents are not…
At the moment, the world of politics is a complete and utter disaster. Countries are colluding with each other to threaten the global order, science and religion are sworn enemies in the political arena, countries can’t decide whether what they actually voted for is valid, even though their people voted for it (*cough* Brexit *cough*)…
As we encounter families in panic, houses on the brink of destruction and the shoreline disappearing before us, one can feel exhausted by the approach of global warming or helpless altogether. Nevertheless, there are answers to these pressing issues, and there are significant changes that must take place. At the rate of flooding we see…
When Wang Guangyi first started to capture the contradictions between China’s communist political system and its capitalist economic system in a series of paintings and prints that he titled the Great Criticism, he knew that his art could land him in prison or even cost him his life. The Chinese government of the 1990s and…
It’s rare to find one’s passion at a young age and to stick with it, but for Katie Tracy (’22), that was just the case. “When I was two, I would stand at the door of my sister’s dance classes and do their warmups with them so then my mom was like ‘Oh she’d be…