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20 Years of e.l.f. Beauty Means 20 New Brokerage Accounts

20 Years of e.l.f. Beauty Means 20 New Brokerage Accounts

Alyssa Politi, Managing Editor April 2, 2024

I pierced my TV screen as I watched an e.l.f. Beauty sign gracefully fell and breezed along the front of the New York Stock Exchange building.  Celebrating their 20-year anniversary, e.l.f. Beauty...

From Campus to Catwalk: Mercys Makeup Club Makes Its Debut

From Campus to Catwalk: Mercy’s Makeup Club Makes Its Debut

Alyssa Politi, Managing Editor March 6, 2024

  As a casual in-between class time leisure, her classmate decided to test out a cat-winged eyeliner trick on her.  The simple stroke of the charcoal black eyeliner painted along her eye...

Nearly 500 Students Sign Petition Criticizing Meal Plan and Food Quality

Nearly 500 Students Sign Petition Criticizing Meal Plan and Food Quality

Alyssa Politi, Carla Gradiz, and Joshua Ochoa Diaz March 6, 2024

After instances of throwing up, feeling sick to her stomach, and contracting food poisoning this past fall semester, Mercy University student Elisabeth Lyngset created a petition that would gain student...

Do I Have to Be a Liberal?

Do I Have to Be a Liberal?

Alyssa Politi, Managing Editor March 5, 2024

Reunions with the family, usually over dinner, call for political talk. I don’t know exactly what it is about this type of setting and atmosphere that provokes such random outbursts of opinions on...

Top 5 Super Bowl Outfits

Top 5 Super Bowl Outfits

Alyssa Politi, Managing Editor February 29, 2024

With more frequent television appearances now of Taylor Swift rooting and jaw-dropping at the Kansas City Chief games, women’s role in the NFL has become more widely talked about.  Sports has...

Connect the Dots

Connect the Dots

Alyssa Politi, Managing Editor February 27, 2024

It was another typical seventh-grade day of getting into verbal fights on Snapchat. Somehow, I found myself in a “sub” war with a girl I knew. Indirect jabs at each other back and forth. She hated...

Sweet Relief: Local Chocolate Shop Pioneers Mental Health Awareness

Sweet Relief: Local Chocolate Shop Pioneers Mental Health Awareness

Alyssa Politi, Managing Editor February 27, 2024

My mother came home with random food again from her friends at work and this week’s culprit was chocolate. Eating chocolate has always been a specialty of mine, so I was excited to meet my newest...

Swipe Right, Stay Safe

Swipe Right, Stay Safe

Alyssa Politi, Managing Editor February 22, 2024

Amongst the more common normalcy of “hooking up” amongst college students, there lies a concerning trend that often goes unnoticed: the rising rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).  New...

Making Waves: University Sets Sail with Long Island Sound Project

Making Waves: University Sets Sail with Long Island Sound Project

Alyssa Politi, Managing Editor February 12, 2024

She stood in front of the crisp ocean water. Staring. Waiting. She was warmly wrapped in her fluffy coat and hat as the winter cool breezed past her. Her brother was holding a football while...

Are You Delulu?

Are You ‘Delulu’?

Alyssa Politi, Managing Editor January 4, 2024

An old, old friend of mine recently said to me in hatred of one of my column pieces, “Just know in the end, you'll never win as long as I exist.”  If I had said that, it would make sense. It...

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