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2021 March Madness Overview/Predictions

Kaleb Steele, Sports Editor | March 10, 2021

A typical college basketball season consists of: 26 regular season games, conference tournaments, first four tournaments, selection Sunday, and then March Madness. The first four tournament allows lower ranking teams to do a play-in tournament to make...

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How controversial clothing brand SHEIN inspires overconsumption

Alicia Ernst, Staff Writer | March 10, 2021

“Fast fashion” has been in practice for decades. The term refers to companies who utilize cheap, efficient labor and low-quality textiles to replicate garments that are perfectly on-trend with modern internet culture. Popular retailers such as SHEIN...

The corporatization of the modern-day body positivity movement

Eileen Lincoln, Editor in Chief | March 10, 2021

Body positivity is a term coined back in the late 1960s, used throughout the Fat Acceptance Movement: activism against diet culture and corporate industries of whom capitalized off discrimination and anti-fatness ideologies. In our modern-day world, the...

Why Everyone Should Take The Race IAT at Least Once in Their Life

Claudia Messina, Editor in Chief | March 9, 2021

This summer citizens across the world witnessed and participated in a powerful demonstration of civil rights in America. The Black Lives Matter Movement inspired many people of this country and called for immediate reform of several institutions to make...

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Moving Forward

Payton Wozny, Editor-In-Chief | January 21, 2021

The polarization of the nation became more evident than ever following the breach of the Capitol Building on Jan 6 and the anticipation of Biden’s Inauguration, however, following Inauguration Day, unity seems more attainable, and hope for a stronger...

Playboi Carti’s, Whole Lotta Red. Trash or Not?

Aubrey Leverett, Online Manager/ Social Media Manager | January 14, 2021

April 14, 2017. That was the date that Atlanta based rapper Jordan Carter, aka Playboi Carti, released his first album. Following the release of the album, named after Playboi Carti himself, Carti dropped two different artistically sounding tracks: “Brokeboi”...

Is The 'Tampon Tax' and argument of gender inequality or economics?

Is The ‘Tampon Tax’ and argument of gender inequality or economics?

Zoe Sauger, Editor-In-Chief | January 14, 2021

Over the centuries women have fought long and hard to omit gender inequalities in every aspect of our lives. The suffragette movement brought about the right to vote, one of the biggest achievements for women’s rights, and was also a catalyst for many...

Why the United States needs a second lockdown

Eileen Lincoln, Editor in Chief | January 14, 2021

As of the start of 2021, the United States has reached over 20 million COVID-19 cases. In less than a year, the country has had over 360,000 deaths, solely due to the virus itself. Right now the virus is nowhere near slowing down either - these last...

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Review of The Midnight Sky

Shevany Moharir, Editorial Board | January 14, 2021

In 2049, Earth is overcome by a natural disaster leaving toxic radiation on its surface and forcing the entire human population to evacuate immediately. Scientist Augustine Lofthouse (George Clooney), decides to stay back, knowing his illness will overtake...

Trump's response when Pence told him that he can't do anything about the votes

Trump Social Media Ban and Investigation

Kaleb Steele, Sports Editor | January 14, 2021

President Donald J Trump was holding a rally outside of the White House. Donald J Trump first said to his crowd, “We will stop the steal!” He continued to say, “We will never give up, we will never concede.” “We won it by a landslide,” he...

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Donald Trump must be removed from office.

Sahithi Jammulamadaka, Editor-in-Chief | January 7, 2021

Last night was a dark time in America. It was a level of grief and shame that no one in the country nor in the world ever thought America would stoop to. Anarchists and domestic terrorists stormed the U.S Capitol and wreaked havoc on one of the most sacred...

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