Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor If a professor starts a sentence with, “Today we’re going to watch…” heads turn, phones are put down, hopes are lifted and single tears are shed. If the professor then says you’ll be watching a documentary about Chinese food, your stomach sheds a single tear as well – mostly because it’s Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Stubbornness is exhausting. Defying change is, often, pointless. An existence based solely on closed-minded objection to differing viewpoints is bound to be a lonely one. There’s a fine line between respectfully proving someone wrong and arguing for the sake of arguing. Standing up for ourselves is a good thing. Getting back Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Why is our instinct always to escape? For instance, I just attempted to escape the responsibility of writing this column by watching an hour and a half of YouTube videos. That’s so many YouTube videos, you guys. And SO little writing. It’s not that I dislike writing, either. I love it. Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor We are most definitely a product of our environment. And by “environment” I mean “popular culture.” And by “popular culture” I mean “the superficial aspects of society we gravitate toward.” Popular culture is not a phase, mom. It’s a lifestyle. According to Stacy Takacs, author of “Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions,” Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Despite Andre Gide’s successful career as an author and despite being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947, he knew one thing to be true: “Everything that needs to be said has already been said.” If he were alive today, he may have written an article on “15 Reasons why Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Have you ever thought about how weird college is? I’m a very weird person, and even I’m aware of how weird everything about college is. And I don’t mean “weird” as in “lol sometimes I wear mismatched socks and don’t care how my hair looks because I’m QUIRKY.” No – I’m Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor We’re living on borrowed time. In this case, I don’t mean in the sense that we’re all SLOWLY DYING (which we are). I mean we’re living in a time of planned obsolescence. Our phones function well for about two years – the average length of a cellphone contract. Our laptops have Read More
Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Self-righteousness hath no fury like a soon-to-be graduating senior. It was true in high school, and it’s definitely true now. For some, it starts as early as first semester sophomore year. As soon as we become upperclassmen, we start looking at the incoming freshman with superior, knowing eyes – eyes filled Read More