Category: Viewpoints

From the moment I woke up, I knew that today was going to be special. At 8:30 a.m., my Super Mario Brothers radio alarm clock played my favorite song: the theme song from the Mary Tyler Moore Show! As soon as I left my special racecar bed with my Bug’s Life blanket draped around my…

Alex Hiatt Picture this scene: it’s 3 a.m., it’s been a long day, and you’re driving home. You are stopped at a red light for what seems like forever. You imagine it might be harmless to sneak through; no cars or cops or pedestrians in sight. But breaking the law doesn’t seriously cross your mind.…

Ramsey Kincannon It can be easy to rip on the Oscars. Many claim that the Academy overly focuses on pretentious art rather than a good movie, which makes sense given the completely undeserving “Tree of Life” getting a best picture nomination over “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” Others say that the demography of Academy…

Elaine Wilcox-Cook It is the year 2012, almost 40 years since Roe vs. Wade passed, yet the government is still trying to punish women for legally exercising control over their bodies with state-sanctioned rape. Recent bills requiring a woman to have a trans-vaginal ultrasound before she can have access to an abortion are medically unnecessary…

Kate Mozynski Picture this scene: it’s 3 A.M., it’s been a long day, and you’re driving home. You are stopped at a red light for what seems like forever, and you know that you would pose no risk to yourself or others by just driving through the light. Sound familiar? Then you might be a…

Copy editor Sarah Kristeller ’14 and Features editor Anya Cohen ’14 share their thoughts on several issues. Mushrooms Anya: Mushrooms are weird, slimy and smell like dirt. They make whatever they are mixed with taste worse. They are like the Debbie Downer of your friends who just make everything awful. One time I ate a…