Thursday, September 19, 2024
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
BY DEEJ OSTER / VN CO-EDITOR As the semester closes, I get more and more anxious to get out of class, get off campus and be done with school until next semester. The fall term is especially hard as the weather gets colder and my attention span gets shorter and […]
