After registering for next semester’s classes, it can feel exciting to explore the new subjects, but it can also feel daunting, too. A whole new semester, just as we near the end of the current one. I suggest adding, if you can, one more course: horseback riding. As the only class offered during the spring...
Category: Opinions 2017
Repealing the Second Amendment won’t make schools safe for students
Nineteen-year-old Nikolas Cruz entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with the evil purpose to murder the innocent. His killing spree prematurely ended the futures of seventeen Americans, forever changed the lives of their families, and deprived our world of bright young men and women. The progressive response to this tragedy peaked in a New York...
The Weekly: Thank you Bon Appétit for Café Fresco
For many students with busy schedules, the new lunch option in Kendall Hall, Café Fresco, has been a welcome reprieve. As students, we often complain about issues on our campus. Although these complaints are sometimes valid, a solution can be hard to come by. Bon Appétit Management Co. addressed some of our complaints in the...
Conserve classic rock, but keep discovering contemporary music
While I was helping my dad hang light fixtures in our new house years ago, he let me play music while we worked. When we had listened to about half of the Black Keys song I put on, he turned to me very solemnly and said, “Son, turn this off.” This is the most common...
Disney princesses must teach good values and morals
“Have courage, and be kind” was Ella’s motto in the 2015 Disney film “Cinderella.” Not “have an abortion and don’t appropriate other people’s cultures.” But if Planned Parenthood has its way, Disney princesses will be a lot more involved in modern social justice and political causes, and little girls will learn very different lessons....