OPINION: President Trump’s Hypocrisy
By Clementine Larouillh, Reporter
November 13, 2017
Filed under Opinions
Over the course of the 2016 election, President Donald Trump had many complaints about President Obama, ranging from Obamacare to his citizenship. However, one of his lesser known complaints has been dying quietly, simply because now to bring it up again would make Trump look like a hypocrite, although...
OPINION: We Need to Talk about ‘Just Girl Things’
By Mae Bruce, A&E Editor
November 9, 2017
Filed under Opinions
Periods, birth control, abortions. All of these have one thing in common: people don’t want to talk about them. But these are things we need to have a discussion about. It’s time to get over the irrational fear of talking about these issues. Every day women face a multitude of issues that can mu...
OPINION: Spirit Girl Programs Should be Changed
By Catherine Wiesehuegel, Reporter
November 9, 2017
Filed under Opinions
Westwood Spirit groups are organizations that require girls to bake goods for their counterparts on the boys' sports team and show up at games with nauseating enthusiasm. The girls are told to expect nothing in return. So what can the girls get out of it? As far as I can tell, it’s a feeble attemp...
OPINION: The Stress Epidemic
By Kate Lee, Voices Editor
November 7, 2017
Filed under Opinions, Showcase
The bell rings. Students flood out of their classrooms, backpacks weighed down by papers, and teachers call out last-minute instructions. Walking into their next class, a student drops their textbooks on their desk and says, “I’m seriously going to kill myself.” It’s a scene we’re all too ...
OPINION: Harvey Weinstein and the Corruption of Hollywood
By Haley Haverda, Clementine Larouillh, Reporter
November 4, 2017
Filed under Opinions, Showcase
By this point, almost anybody who’s glanced at the internet knows the name of Harvey Weinstein. Just in case you’ve been living under a rock, former director and certified pervert Harvey Weinstein has been sexually abusing and molesting women for over twenty years, and only recently has any of this come ou...
OPINION: Spotify Playlist Emphasizes Common Bonds in Response to Travel Ban
By Becca Halaney, Reporter
November 1, 2017
Filed under Opinions
Music, believed to be 55,000 years old at least, is present in all cultures and has been for all of written history. Made up of combinations of melody, tempo, dynamics, pitch, timbre, texture, and emphasis created by sounds organized in time, music was meant to communicate sentiments larger than words - ...
OPINION: Puerto Rico Calls for Help
By Sara Momin, Assistant News Editor
October 30, 2017
Filed under Opinions
The silence of the island speaks a thousand words. Cries of help and confusion are washed away in the soft waves of the Gulf of Mexico as a month of darkness becomes the only reply. In the center of the island, families huddle up in abandoned apartments, sharing a slice of bread as their only meal for...
OPINION: Kurds Taking Back Raqqa Should be Addressed
By Nicole Dhar, Photographer
October 25, 2017
Filed under Opinions
Last Monday, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), captured Paradise Square, where ISIS publicly performed violent acts on people and forced others to watch while publicizing them on social media. The next day, the four month battle to take back Raqqa, the Syrian capital, came to an end. The fall of th...
OPINION: The American Addiction
By Clementine Larrouilh, Assistant Editor
October 17, 2017
Filed under Opinions, Showcase
With every shooting there comes the same narrative. Terror, “pray for them," make promises, forget, and repeat. The cycle has gone unbroken for far too long. It’s time to change the narrative, but to do this we have to first examine and understand why firearms are still acceptable, even after ha...
OPINION: Repeal Of Obama-Era Policies On Assault Cases Decreases Campus Safety
By Sara Momin, Assistant News Editor
October 17, 2017
Filed under Opinions
Harvard. A place of rigor, academic perfection, and countless nights of coffee and energy drinks. Yet it is also a place of diversity, and as Harvard students raise fists and homemade cloth signs during Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos’ speech, they stare towards the live-streaming camera, their me...
OPINION: Columbus Day Rediscovered
By Kamille Galloway, Opinions Editor
October 9, 2017
Filed under Opinions, Showcase
He sailed the ocean blue, he enabled European expansion through the Americas, he sought a new land of vast abundance... Christopher Columbus, commonly known as the discoverer of America, has been celebrated for his seemingly grand feat of finding our nation since 1937. Every second Monday of October ...
OPINION: Saudi Arabia Allows Women to Drive, A Small Step for Big Change
By Nicole Dhar, Photographer
October 8, 2017
Filed under Opinions, Showcase
Last Tuesday, the Saudi Arabian government publicly announced that Saudi Arabian women will be given the right to drive. Enacting this policy is a great step in the right direction for this country, but there is still much change to be made involving women’s rights and empowerment. The face of th...
