BY MIJAI LEWIS / VN COLUMNIST Dear class of 2018, We made it – despite what people think about us. We made it – through getting up early in the morning to going home late at night. We survived our professors, whether boring or full of high-pitched energy. We lived […]
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When firearms cause more harm than good
Photo by U.S. Navy BY TIFFENY GRIPPER / VN STAFF WRITER “How many people have to die for things to change?” “They should raise the age for having a gun.” “Guns aren’t the problem. Mental illness is the problem.” “My AR-15 is for self-defense.” These are just a few of the […]
Experiment shows social media difficult to avoid
BY LAUREN SHARKEY / VN STAFF WRITER Well, that was an enlightening week. In my previous Varsity News article, before spring break, I announced I would be signing off social media for a week to see how it would feel and how it would impact me. I was a full-on social […]
Trip puts Varsity News staffers in Empire State of mind
Emily Jones, Johnathan Zhu, Deej Oster and Phylisha Drayton represented The Varsity News at a national college media conference. BY EMILY JONES / VN columnist Spring break brought me a wonderful opportunity to experience many new things. I felt as if I were in an entirely different country. In […]
Indecision needn’t halt progress
BY EMILY JONES / VARSITY NEWS COLUMNIST When I started this fateful, laborious journey (a.k.a. going to college), I was full of motivation and hope. I was ready to tackle everything thrown at me, and I worked tirelessly the first two years. Back then, I thought I knew exactly […]
Lawmakers share blame for shootings
BY KENNETH DONALDSON / VARSITY NEWS COLUMNIST Our country had another mass shooting on Wednesday, Feb. 14. It occurred, like many others, at a high school – this time in Florida. The narrative remains the same: a sick or twisted individual manages to get his hands on some kind of […]
When your home doubles as school
BY EMILY JONES / VN STAFF WRITER There are ups and downs that come with being homeschooled, as I was from third grade on. The benefits: It made me an independent person. It let me take my education at the pace I wanted. It gave me library days every week, in addition […]
Art and its flawed creators
BY DEEJ OSTER / VN EDITOR As the Academy Awards draw near, there are certainties and snubs that derive from growing tension within the media. Movements such as #MeToo and #TimesUp have brought many cases of misconduct to light. The tension in Hollywood has boiled over as scandal after […]
KENNETH DONALDSON: H&M fiasco points to diversity blind spots
BY KENNETH DONALDSON / VN COLUMNIST The popular clothing outfitter H & M came under fire after displaying a black boy modeling a sweatshirt featuring the words “coolest monkey in the jungle.” This caused wide-scale backlash against the brand. Social media ignited with a slew of angry tweets expressing outrage and […]
EMILY JONES: Pangs of guilt greet return to meat eating
BY EMILY JONES / VN COLUMNIST Lately I’ve been feeling guilty. Maybe guilty isn’t the right word. If there’s anything I’ve learned from being a psychology major, it’s that the field has a concrete term for every behavior and emotion that you’ve felt but never put a name to. So […]
