Opinions
Opinions
Opinion: Wellness was never meant to be an achievement
I’ve started to wonder how much I actually know about my body. When I exercise, I can see my heart rate, calories burned and how...
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Opinion: Amidst recent backlash, MSI is more important than ever
I came to Occidental, thousands of miles away from my home in Virginia, completely unfamiliar with my surroundings but eager to learn. Participating in...
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Opinion: The Sparkletts plant sits vacant. Here’s what to do.
During my second week at Occidental, I had to get my medication from the CVS on York Boulevard. As I was heading home, I...
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Opinion: Write for your inner child
There is a scene in the 2010 animated Walt Disney movie “Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue” where Lizzy, a young human girl, works on...
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Opinions: TikTok Ban, a political ordeal or a cybersecurity necessity?
When I first heard about the news of TikTok being taken down, I reacted like every other worker who would be facing layoff: horrified....
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to drink from a fire hydrant
My mom likes to say that sometimes life is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. I think this is her...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: From first-year roommates to dear friends
Culture editor Katie Moore and Opinions editor Shreya Srinivasan reflect on their college journey, starting as first-year roommates, staying in touch through the pandemic,...
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Opinion: Republicans’ war on trans youth is a war on all of us
Texas. Florida. Virginia. Even, yes, California. All of these states have seen bills introduced (or passed) that attempt to clamp down on the freedom...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to get used to men, or not?
I don’t think I realized that my seven years of all-girls school had impacted me in any formative or traumatic way until I stepped...
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Opinion: ‘Everything Everywhere’ has its own universe in China
Renee Ye -
Imagine a parallel universe: Where most of the dialogue in "Everything Everywhere All at Once" sounds like gibberish; where the film was never streamed in...
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Opinion: Did you see the strikeout heard ’round the world?
Emma Cho -
The greatest two-way baseball player to walk the planet struck out the best hitter in our country March 21. The world was watching — were you? Baseball might be America’s pastime,...
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Opinion: How a 20-foot container, and a few laws, changed the world
Your clothes were probably made in Bangladesh, and your shoes in Vietnam. Your phone was probably assembled in China, and its processor was probably...
