To begin, I want to address the fact that I have limited to no moral high ground in writing this article. I am not a public figure nor a stand-up comedian. I am simply an undergraduate student writing for a college newspaper that, let’s be honest, gets a fraction of the followers that this comedian…
On Tuesday, March 1 at approximately 4 p.m., the Campus Health Advisory Team released an update for the campus community regarding the frequently shifting mask mandate on campus. Per the email, the regulations have taken a major alteration for the second time throughout the school year. As of Wednesday, February 23, masks have become optional…
On February 22, a historic verdict was reached in the hate crime trial of William Bryan and Greg and Travis McMichael, the three men found guilty of killing Ahmaud Arbery. The three were found guilty of federal hate crime charges, including kidnapping and violating Arbery’s civil rights. Twenty-five-year-old Arbery was murdered on February 23, 2020,…
The February 23 rollback of on-campus mask mandates had many people celebrating and many others organizing in protest following a petition from Hope Advocates for Invisible Conditions (HAIC). “I don’t view lifting the mandatory usage of masks as a positive,” said Hope student and petition signer Seth Hays (’24), “I think it unnecessarily endangers our…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled on Monday, February 21, to decriminalize abortion during the first 24 weeks of a pregnancy, a move that reflects the shifting ideologies of Latin America. The court ruled five against four to legalize the procedure, following suit to countries like Argentina and Mexico that enacted similar legislation changes in December 2020…
Since leaving in January of last year, Donald Trump has remained relatively out of the spotlight. While he dominated every section of the news for four years, now his activities are primarily underground. Part of this is because he no longer has access to the two most prominent platforms that he used to spread his…
Last Sunday, Queen Elizabeth the Second tested positive for COVID-19 after experiencing “cold-like” symptoms for a few days, Buckingham Palace said in a statement to the public. The Queen, now 95 years old, is well within the demographic most susceptible to the coronavirus, as over 50 percent of deaths from COVID occur in the 80+…