Dear Editor, I am writing in response to an op-ed written by Editor-in-Chief Tom Novelly in last week’s edition of the Collegian. The article, titled “Trump, save ‘My Way’ for ‘The Last Dance’ not the first,” is well written, but misses the mark. The song celebrated the journey down the road, travelled by few, to...
In his final hours as president, Obama exposed the fallacious justice by which liberals operate. Chelsea Manning, the Army intelligence analyst who was convicted of espionage for leaking over 700,000 classified documents to Wikileaks, had her 35-year sentence commuted. After serving seven years behind bars, Obama said he felt “justice has been served” and set...
On Jan. 21, half a million people flooded the streets of Washington to participate in the Women’s March on Washington to advocate for, as one not-so-eloquent marcher put it, “just in general, women’s rights.” The March was used as a demonstration for a laundry list of concerns, some legitimate and some abstract and vague to...
Picture a gaggle of gangly elephants gyrating about on a desert landscape as a lone man, naked and unprotected, attempts to resist the gilded promises they offer him. This is not a metaphor for how the Republican Party’s 2016 presidential victory — which at first appeared to free the American people from their Bush and...
As President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania glided across the dance floor to Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” at the post-inauguration Liberty Ball, they probably thought the tune was fitting for the politically-incorrect candidate that rocked the nation. But by selecting Sinatra’s classic as the song for the first presidential dance, Trump started the...