Hypersexualization of Asian women in the media leads to harmful consequences
Asian women have suffered a history of being overly sexualized by Americans. Although this notion has come to light in recent weeks, it has always been present throughout the centuries. And in many old...
The Yale fraternity lawsuit highlights the frayed and complex nature of Greek life
Over hundreds of years, in spite of their earnest academic origins, traditional Greek letter fraternities have since become infamous for their involvement in the ongoing issue of collegiate sexual misconduct. Fraternity life has played...
Limiting smartphone and social media usage can make you happier
For a huge amount of smartphone users, specifically those with iPhones, receiving weekly screen time notifications that exemplify a percentage increase in the daily average for the past week can be a moment filled...
Highlander Write-Off: Which music genre is most effective for commenting on contemporary social issues?
Drawn by Justus Ross
Country music is the ideal genre for commenting on social issues giving a voice to sidelined populations
By: Evan Ismail,...
UCivil war: a message to the striking UCSC graduate students and the administration that...
Drawn by Justus Ross
The University of California (UC) system has been in a state of near-constant strife for the last month and a half. Last month saw...
Twitch Plays Pokemon: A community-based adventure
If you’re wondering why you’re seeing helixes all over the Internet, there’s a good chance you’ve been living under a dome-shaped rock.
The plethora of helixes is due to the popularity of Twitch Plays Pokemon,...
Asylum seekers and migrants are not pawns for political stunts
This September, eight Venezuelan migrants were flown from Texas to California. They did not have prior knowledge of their destination and had intended to go to other parts of the country with Venezuelean communities....
A side step toward clean energy
It’s no bird, but it definitely is a plane and some optimistic Swiss entrepreneurs are flying it without using any fuel. Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg founded Solar Impulse and pioneered the first purely...
R’Perspective:” A first-year’s journey of finding a life worth living
Being stuck in a rut is not an ideal situation to be in. Especially when it has to deal with your major. You know you are in the wrong major when the courses are...
The recent ruling that DACA is illegal upholds a rhetoric of hate against immigrants...
In an unsurprising turn of events, on Oct. 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit voted to uphold a 2021 ruling that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is...