Opinion
Shun Sakai | Pulvis et umbra sumus
SHUN SAKAI is a College senior from Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Guest column by Chaz Howard | My freshman year and insecurity
Insecurity, I have found, is a dangerous force that can subtly permeate various aspects of one’s life.
Jeremiah Keenan | Stereotyping
She was a cosmopolitan-looking, middle-aged doctor with the kind of precisely preserved physiognomy that I imagine develops 15 years out from an Ivy League sorority.
Brad Hong | Watch your back
BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, NJ.
Alec Ward | Apologia for a Dean
I first saw the letter which University of Chicago Dean of Students John Ellison sent to his incoming freshman class on Twitter, a day or so before it hit the mainstream press. Scanning the first grainy photocopy, I could sense a kerfuffle in the making.
Ben Claar | Pokemon is cool again
BEN CLAAR is a College sophomore from Scarsdale, N.Y.
Alessandro van den Brink | Animal House
In May, Harvard announced a historic move to enact penalties on its Final Clubs and Greek life organizations.
Shun Sakai | Erosion
SHUN SAKAI is a College senior from Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Amanda Reid | In solidarity
The daily news updates of unlawful police shootings against black men and women has led to much hashtagged outrage: solidarity nowadays means expressing communal dissatisfaction.
Guest column by Amy Gutmann | Make your mark
Voting is a simple act of civic duty, but it is also a transformative one. Each of us joins with millions of individuals across the country to enact something--the democratic choice of our representatives--that none of us can or should do alone. Voting in a constitutional democracy not only expresses our citizenship; it also enables us together to continually re-establish something much mightier than any of us could otherwise be: a democratic republic that aspires to recognize the liberty and equality of all persons.
Alec Ward | Don't
It’s a scene right out of a classic college film or a rose-tinted admissions propaganda leaflet — a group of college students lazing around a dorm room or lounge, late at night, arguing about politics, philosophy and the meaning of life. It probably figured, to some extent, in your high school visions of what Ivy League life would be like. I know it did in mine.
Brad Hong | Eating Healthy
BRAD HONG is a College freshman from Morristown, NJ.
Emily Hoeven | To be or not to be proud
At the end of this past school year, my mom and I were talking about the ups and downs of my college experience when she asked, “Are you proud of the person you’ve become?” Although taken by surprise, my first instinct was to say yes. After all, I had finished two years of college, lived across the country from my family, survived several East Coast winters, taken stimulating courses with incredible professors and learned from and was challenged by the students around me.
Isabel Kim | "You're pretty white"
Calling someone “pretty white” isn’t a measure of race, but of how much of your ethnic culture and pop culture you do not identify with, and it’s a ridiculous conflation.
Benjamin Zou | When inclusion excludes
US universities seem to believe that the right to consider race in college admissions, which they originally desired in order aid disadvantaged black applicants, now also allows them to set an enrollment cap on another US minority.
Citizen Capozzi | Live at the Republican National Convention
Opinion columnist Louis Capozzi is at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Isabel Kim | Off the record
The interesting thing about the press is although we expend an enormous amount of time and energy investigating everyone else’s business, the actual mechanisms of the press are often opaque.
Benjamin Zou | American unrest, contextualized
While the rest of the world sees our violence, turbulence, and political instability, they also see that we at least still hold on to the integrity of our anger and our desire to listen and be heard worldwide.