“The recent use of music videos to address social issues is a tactical and meaningful capitalization on the ability of music to sway social tides.”
Featured Column, Column
Seeking Solace in Traditions
“When you return home for Christmas break, if your family has traditions, enjoy them and continue them. If they don’t, I strongly encourage you to start your own, as it is comforting to have these constants in your life.”
Column, Featured Column
Cake on My To-Do List
“A list is a simple thing. It takes the uncontrollable and intangible cloud of stress and pins it down to a piece of paper. A list should give you peace of mind.”
Column
Education Through Confrontation
“In a world dictated by safe spaces and trigger warnings, it isn’t difficult to imagine how we might lose the courage to confront our mistakes and thereby lose the crucial opportunity to learn from them.”
Column
Political Correctness in the Age of Trump
“The more we realize how much we share in common with each other simply by virtue of being human, and that our political views do not define us, the more comfortable we’ll be talking with one another.”
Column, Opinions
The State of Rap
“The rappers and re-made rappers of the new generation reflect a societal shift from power-hunger to social obligation.”
Opinions, Column
The Commonness of Racism
“As a black, working-class woman, I was shocked by very little that Trump said.”
Opinions, Column
Conservatism After Trump’s Win
“Yet, to make a rudimentary analysis here, I will say that this election is a triumph for the little guy, the forgotten man, the people, often blue-collar workers, who feel forgotten, trampled, and insulted by those in power.”
Featured Column, Column
Leahy’s Detachment Will Be His Legacy, Former UGBC President Says
“Unless you are one of the few freshmen he advises, or a member of a favored student group, it is likely that you have not had much interaction with our University’s president.”
News, Column, Featured Column
To Inspire Inclusion on Campus, UGBC Pens Letter to Student Body
Several members of UGBC wrote an open letter to the student body disapproving of the rhetoric used during the 2016 presidential election and acts of hate and violence stemming from this rhetoric.
