• There She Is, Miss… Competition?

    By Loraine Aceto Miss America has made some major changes to the structure of their pageant… er, competition. A beauty pageant is a competition as well, however, based on judging the physical appearance, physical fitness and style of the contestants; additionally in beauty pageants, contestants are judged on poise, intelligence, confidence, personality traits and, sometimes,… Read more

  • Brain Candy

    By Jacob Darling “What the heck is ‘brain candy’?” I hear some people asking. Well to me, brain candy is any concept or fascinating tidbit of information that my brain finds every bit as stimulating and addicting as a delicious piece of Sour Patch Kids — things that I find myself thinking about over and… Read more

  • Tips & Tricks for a Better You

    By Matt Flaherty In order to get the most out of college, students have to put a lot of effort in their studies. In other words, you get what you put into college. There are plenty of students who coast through their two or four years of postsecondary education and earn a degree; however, they… Read more

  • Drug Addicts Are Not ‘Losers’

    By Alex Downing I met him on my first day of high school. He sat in the back of his classes and feigned disinterest. Teachers didn’t like him at first because they thought he was dull and indifferent. But they quickly discovered that he was smart, smarter than a lot of people. His intelligence was… Read more

  • You Said What… ? Arm Our Teachers?

    By Zachary J. Guiod Our current Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, is reportedly considering using federal funds that are meant for improving academic achievement for another purpose: to allow states to purchase guns for their schools. This is in response to the horrible school shootings that have become commonplace in America today, but is this… Read more

  • Trump’s White House: Normalizing Insanity

    By Jacob Darling This current administration has made many unprecedented things part of our day-to-day as Americans. Everything from banning entire groups of people from entering the country, to threatening North Korea with nuclear war via Twitter, to separating children from their parents at the Mexican border: All these things have become part of the… Read more