Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Spotlight: Cosplay Workshops

Sewing machines, dress forms and bags of foam are set against the walls of the Creat’R Lab in the Orbach Library. Students sit at rectangular tables that fill in the rest of the space...

Pressing pause during midterms: The importance of breaks

Every college student handles midterm season differently. Whether you cope by spending dozens of hours in the library or sleeping to deny all responsibility, everyone has their preference. But how can we make sure...

Bree Newsome is still climbing: The activist talks life beyond #KeepItDown

https://soundcloud.com/myles-duve/activist-bree-newsome-speaks-on-life-beyond-keepitdown There is a moment in the autobiography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. where, when reflecting on his time as a freshman at Morehouse College in 1944, King recalls becoming enlightened by Thoreau’s theory...

The Clothesline Project: Empowering and giving a voice to survivors

When walking through the colorful shirts hung up on a chain link fence set up for the Clothesline Project — a visual display to bring awareness of violence against women, men and children —...

The woes of honesty: Being upfront with STDs

California’s recently passed SB239 softens the blow of offenses that come with willingly exposing someone to a sexually-transmitted disease (STD). Why make such a rule? The reasoning is unclear, but what is blatant is...

The Fast Lane: What to do when buying a used car

  For many of us, our first major purchase in our lives will be our cars. Though, with the high price of new cars today, it’s much more affordable to purchase a used car instead....

Chalk the Walk

  Monday: First Day on the Walk A couple of hours before her dance audition, Desiree Carcamo, a first-year bioengineering major, began sketching and coloring her design. This is Carcamo’s first time participating in Chalk the...

Campus Cope: From humble beginnings to the real world: Coping with senior year fears

Edward Dave: Expectations: Many moons ago, as a novice freshman, I had my entire four years of college mapped out. I was going to take four classes, average 16-17 units every quarter and graduate two quarters...

This year in … Features

This year, we at Features tried to incorporate as many new ideas into the section as possible to appeal to readers of all interests, such as having frequent restaurant reviews, creating recipe videos and...

The Fast Lane: Best Road Trip Cars

With airline travel getting costlier, many Americans are opening up their phone navigation and discovering the country from their cars. Road tripping is a great cost friendly way to get out and see our...