Opinions

Opinion: Be yourself for Halloween

The first time Halloween rolled around after I started college, I found myself without a costume. I was two months into my very first...

Opinion: The ugly truth of Korean beauty standards

Looking back at my life growing up in Seoul, I noticed how quietly misogyny started seeping into everyday life in the form of beauty...

Opinion: It’s okay to be ‘Deathly Afraid’

It’s the spookiest time of the year, and everyone is gearing up for the season’s festivities. Back home, I never really celebrated Halloween, but...

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...

Letter to the Editor: Rhonda Brown, CDO

Feb. 1 marked my one-year anniversary at Occidental. I’ve always found that an anniversary is a good time to be retrospective, and as I...

Editorial: A look at journalistic ethics

In the haze following the 2016 presidential election, there has been a crackdown on fake news and a very justified air of frustration toward...

A child labors in Santa’s sweatshop

As I struggle to light a cigarette with my shaky, frozen hands on a bench in Boston, surrounded by the cheers of my gleeful...

10 months of recovery: my struggle with post-concussion syndrome

Early one morning last February I turned over in my sleep, and rolled off the side of my lofted bunk, my head colliding with...

Letter from the editor: The remedy to broken trust is the benefit of the doubt

We have to stop with this “ignorant till proven woke” philosophy that is pervasive across college campuses. It’s petty, pompous and unproductive. We have...

Letter from past editors reflecting on the occupation

            Last year, college media faced a crisis both practical and moral. Wesleyan College’s newspaper was defunded by the school’s student government for an opinions...

Wonder Woman is not a role model, much less a UN Ambassador

My affinity for the United Nations (U.N.) started in eighth grade with my internship at a U.N. branch in Washington DC. I fell in...

Letter to the editor: Faculty say the administration has quelled student voice

Nov. 16 marked the one-year anniversary of the student occupation of the Arthur G. Coons (AGC) Administration building. While others have characterized the occupation...