OP/ED: Gaming All About A Cash Grab In Current Hot Market
Stephen Lyons, Associate Editor
December 6, 2018
Filed under Opinion
In the world of video games, one story is at the forefront of every gamers mind right now: Fallout 76. A story that just keeps going from bad to worse. I have not played the game, but everyone I know personally has enjoyed it. On the other hand, the echo chamber of the internet tells me how it is ...
OP/ED: The Latina Wage Gap is Redundant
Nicole Acosta, Managing Editor
November 15, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Latina. One of the common words I use to describe my entire being. But, it also isn’t just a word. It’s a sense of recognition for my culture, and how I present myself as a woman in society. That word shouldn’t be a way to define how valid we are as people, much less how much we get paid i...
OP/ED: What Will It Take? Coming to a Consensus on Climate Change
Michael Dunnings, Associate Editor
November 5, 2018
Filed under Opinion
What will it take? I have asked that question to myself enough times to make me believe I have lost my grasp on reality and that I have lost my sanity. The definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting a different result. In that case, maybe I am. Maybe I have...
OP/ED: We Can’t Keep Ignoring The Transgender Community
Steven Keehner, Impact Staff
November 4, 2018
Filed under Opinion
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
Nicole Acosta, Managing Editor
October 8, 2018
Filed under Opinion
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
Liv Meier, Associate Editor
April 29, 2018
Filed under Opinion
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 buses and if you connected them all together, they could wrap around the Earth about two and a half...
OP/ED: Regaining Your Game: Videogame Club Looking For Some Respect
Mark McCarthy, Staff Writer
April 28, 2018
Filed under Opinion
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 that were working at the before winter break but now no longer turn on for some reason. But the true...
OP/ED: It’s Not Only a ‘Girl Thing’
Liv Meier, Associate Editor
February 2, 2018
Filed under Opinion
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 important for everyone to support equal rights for women. She then turned to an older gentleman...
OP/ED: Where Is #MeToo in Music?
Nora-Grayce Orosz, Managing Editor
January 24, 2018
Filed under Opinion
The #MeToo movement has swept the entertainment business, but the music industry still has much catching up to do.
OP/ED: It’s Time to Pull the Plug on Holiday Festivities
Liv Meier, Staff Writer
December 9, 2017
Filed under Opinion
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 gift giving. It's impossible to drive down a street in suburban America where there's not at least...
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