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OP/ED: We Cant Keep Ignoring The Transgender Community

OP/ED: We Can’t Keep Ignoring The Transgender Community

Steven Keehner, Impact Staff November 4, 2018
Before our very eyes, a community is dying, and it's about time we acknowledge and fix it.
OP/ED: I Believe You, and I Am With You

OP/ED: I Believe You, and I Am With You

Nicole Acosta, Managing Editor October 8, 2018
It has been nearly a year in a post-Weinstein world, and despite movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp, women are still seen as nothing more than compelling liars.
OP/ED: Straws Seriously Suck

OP/ED: Straws Seriously Suck

Liv Meier, Associate Editor April 29, 2018

Plastic straw usage has become an epidemic in the United States with Americans using roughly 500 million straws per day. Just to put it into perspective, 500 million straws could fill over 125 school...

OP/ED: Regaining Your Game: Videogame Club Looking For Some Respect

Mark McCarthy, Staff Writer April 28, 2018

With the end of one semester and the start of the next, there are casualties during the turnover period. The changing of faculty, students changing colleges or graduating, the televisions in Vic Café...

OP/ED: Its Not Only a Girl Thing

OP/ED: It’s Not Only a ‘Girl Thing’

Liv Meier, Associate Editor February 2, 2018

As I was waiting on a checkout line at my local grocery store, a young girl–about six or seven–turned to me and asked if I was a feminist. I replied that of course I am, and explained to her that it’s...

OP/ED: Where Is #MeToo in Music?

OP/ED: Where Is #MeToo in Music?

Nora-Grayce Orosz, Managing Editor January 24, 2018
The #MeToo movement has swept the entertainment business, but the music industry still has much catching up to do.
OP/ED: Its Time to Pull the Plug on Holiday Festivities

OP/ED: It’s Time to Pull the Plug on Holiday Festivities

Liv Meier, Staff Writer December 9, 2017

It's back. The holiday lights extravaganzas are popping up around every neighborhood. And with the light spectaculars comes lavishly decorated fake Christmas trees, gigantic holiday parties and tons of...

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OP/ED: What Will it Take To Wake Up About Gun Control?

Nora-Grayce Orosz, Managing Editor November 7, 2017
What will it take to bring gun reform in America?
OP/ED: Are Concerts Safe Anymore?

OP/ED: Are Concerts Safe Anymore?

Britney Hoobraj, Associate Editor October 2, 2017

Concerts are part of what makes me, well... me. It allows me to meet people who like the same artists as I do and befriend them. Don't even bother asking how many times I've Ed Sheehan or One Direction...

OP/ED: Show Some Respect and Stand

OP/ED: Show Some Respect and Stand

Kayla Simas, Impact Staff September 28, 2017

This past Sunday, players throughout the NFL joined arms and took a knee as the anthem was played, as part of a protest against the remarks President Donald Trump made at an Alabama rally for Luther Strange,...

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