columns

Pencils Down: How generational divides are impacting the classroom

By Gabe Hendershot • March 6, 2024

This growing division between generations is harming the classroom environment.

Pencils Down: Students should not be starving for success

By Gabe Hendershot • February 22, 2024

It is part of a college’s job to ensure that its students' basic needs are met while they are in pursuit of their degree. This includes safety, housing, mental wellness, physical health and nutrition....

Pencils Down: Excessive debt is weighing down students

By Gabe Hendershot • February 7, 2024

By the time they have received a bachelor’s degree, 70% of students have accumulated educational debt. These ideas grow anxiety in students that can drive them to overload their schedules with more work and time commitments than they can handle, all in order to reduce their amount of debt.

Pencils Down: Why childcare must be made more affordable

By Gabe Hendershot, Columnist • January 24, 2024

Childcare and preschool costs are becoming so unreasonably high that parents are running out of options.

Pencils Down: Why academic standards should not prevent graduation

By Gabe Hendershot, Columnist • November 1, 2023

For many students, graduating high school is a given. After all, the process is often spelled out for them and most have a support system to help along the way. In the eyes of these students, the academic standards required by many high schools in order to receive a diploma are not a roadblock, but rather just another step in the process.

Pencils Down: Why labeling children as gifted is toxic to the learning environment

By Gabe Hendershot • October 19, 2023

How do you teach from a single curriculum while still accommodating all, or at least most, of your students? One way to cope with this problem is to have sections of the school day where students are divided up into different classrooms based on their academic capability.

Figure of Soul: Happiness is not good for the economy

By Ninjin Tumurbat • September 6, 2023

Find what makes you happy, this self-discovery course will definitely help with that! Read this New York Times best-selling book on productivity, it's a game-changer!

Column: The modern era of superhero fatigue

By Evan Miller, Staff Writer • April 19, 2023

With recent negative reviews and lower box office turnouts for Marvel films, it seems as if comic book fatigue may be setting in for audiences.

Column: The case for the weekly streaming model

By Matt Minton, Co Life and Culture Editor • April 5, 2023

Despite the popularity of binge-watching, the weekly streaming model is the most effective at keeping the momentum of a show going.

Column: Is the #MeToo movement over?

By Lily Lipka, Staff Writer • March 29, 2023

Despite #MeToo seeming to move Hollywood in the right direction, the verdict of the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial has reserved so much change.

Column: The 95th Academy Awards make history

By Lily Lipka, Staff Writer • March 23, 2023

The 2023 Oscars showed progress with wins for "Everything Everywhere All at Once," but prove that there are still ways to go in representation.

Column: Has Disney lost its magic?

By Evan Miller, Staff Writer • March 8, 2023

When Disney CEO Bob Iger '73 announced that 7,000 employees were being laid off, the focus placed on new sequels seemed in poor taste for the company.