If Charlie Kirk is right, the clock is ticking: Get married before your 30th birthday or your bloodline dies with you. The right-wing commentator made a stir online with his recent comments on the right age for women to get married. “In their early 30s, they get really upset, because they say, you know, ‘The...
Category: Opinion
Seniors, wear your graduation cords with pride
In just a few short weeks, the class of 2024 will be celebrating our graduation with friends and family. We’ll don our caps and gowns, walk across the stage to receive our diplomas, and take photographs that we’ll show our children and grandchildren one day. We’ll receive countless exclamations of “Congratulations!” or “Well done!” But...
Nobody likes green text bubbles
The color green brings forth mental images of money, lawns, and that one annoying group chat with all the green bubbles. My friend Thomas Mckenna knows all too well the pains that choosing Android over Apple brings. We both travel to Spikeball tournaments as members of the Hillsdale Roundnet Club, and all our tournament players...
Apple discriminates, Android innovates
Apple knows it can’t compete with the flexibility, affordability, and other advantages of Android phones, so instead it makes me a social outcast. The $3 trillion company thinks it can force me to buy an iPhone by encouraging my friends to exclude my Android phone from group chats. I won’t give in — and for...
Absences are not the solution to the adolescent mental health problem
More than 30% of Michigan children are “chronically absent” from school — and now state lawmakers want to make it even easier to cut class by mandating up to five “mental health days” each year. They seek to help students with mental health challenges, but their solution would do more harm than good. The problem...