Opinions

Opinion: The Cornell Daily Sun demonstrates the power of student voices

This article includes discussion of sexual assault. Sept. 21 the Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University’s independent daily student newspaper, published an editorial revealing the names that became...

Lessons Learned: All roads of personal growth lead to Rome

Since coming back from my study abroad semester in Rome, Italy, I have spent the last few months dwelling on the experience I had...

Opinion: Capoeira is a ‘jeito’ of life

The other night, I dreamt of berimbaus (single string gourd instruments) singing in the distance and gravelly voices whispering along to “Deixa eu passar.”...

Opinion: Even if the bubble bursts, AI will survive

It seems like it’s become impossible to navigate contemporary daily life without encountering some form of AI. From Google automatically incorporating Gemini into its search results...

Online room draw causes room drama

It was 9:29 a.m. on my first room draw day, and the loud noise coming from whatever creature resides in the Braun AC units...

Coachella Valley is more than Airbnbs and Ariana Grande

It was that time of year in Los Angeles again. Miles away from our freeways, congested with millennials from Ohio late for their yoga...

Letter to the editor: A call for horizontal leadership from ASOC DEB & ASOC RESF

Dear Oxy Students, With the ASOC elections ongoing, the Diversity and Equity Board (DEB) and Renewable Energy and Sustainability Fund (RESF) have considered endorsing...

Letter to the editor: Highland Park is changing and so must we

Highland Park and the broader Northeast Los Angeles (NELA) area are in flux. Storefronts come and go, unfamiliar faces become a familiar fog and...

My skincare addiction: How the internet enforces beauty standards

Last summer, I started breaking out. I don’t mean innocent little pimples, either. I mean some serious cystic nastiness that erupted on my face like a...

We can’t change history, but we can change how we teach it

In seventh grade, my humanities teacher dropped Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” on my desk. This light read taught me that Columbus...

A touchy subject: Democrats can do better than Joe Biden

Last year, I was with my parents while they talked to their work friend, a man I hardly know. We moved to walk, and...

Why I talk about my mental illness

Since my first year, when I heard about Oxy from the Inside (OFTI), I knew I wanted to speak at the event. I shared...