By Maggie Connolly ’21Opinions Editor TRIGGER WARNING: Please note that this article contains discussion and description of sexual assault. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about the choice to not vote for Joe Biden in the presidential election this November. I labelled the choice as privileged […]
By Maggie Connolly ’21Opinions Editor COVID-19 is not Donald Trump’s fault. He did not create the disease, he did not spread the disease across America himself. What Trump did do was not respond in a timely or effective manner to the threat of what has now become a […]
By Maggie Connolly ’21Opinions Editor “SPRAAAAANG BREAK!!!” called the cohort of college students as their respective university’s doors opened and closed behind them for exactly one week. For many students, it was more than a week. In fact, for most, it was the rest of the semester. Whether […]
By Maggie Connolly ’21Opinions Editor “Remember where we started?” read an Instagram caption of a photo with the six women presidential candidates. Six. Let that number sink in. Not only did we have six women running for president, we had two black Americans, one Asian-American, a Mexican American […]
By Maggie Connolly ’21Opinions Editor Tik Tok has officially taken over. Girls are doing dances in the bathroom at parties. The “sounds” or songs that play in the background of the video clips will come on and people will start doing the dance moves like robots in a […]
By Maggie Connolly ’21Staff Writer Last week, Democrats and Republicans alike across the nation put themselves to bed unsure of who had clinched the victory in the first democratic primary of 2020. The much-anticipated Iowa caucus had a glitch in the system, and no one really knows what […]
Maggie Connolly ‘21 Opinions Editor Trevor Noah combines stand-up comedy with political commentary, a duo that is more than necessary in American political culture right now. On Jan. 17, he released a five-minute Youtube clip of Jordan Klepper “fingering the pulse” of Iowa before the first caucus in […]
By Maggie ConnollyOpinions Editor ‘21 Only three weeks left until my return to College Hill. Only three weeks left to listen to every episode of Pod Save America I’ve missed since I’ve been abroad. That means catching up on all of the news I’ve missed or brushed over […]
By Maggie Connolly ‘21 Opinions Editor Everyone’s a critic. Well, that is what people say at least. And in some sense, it is true. Studying abroad on a program directed towards understanding and learning about politics is obviously going to attract a group of politically active and aware […]
By Maggie Connolly ‘21Staff Writer A fifth summer of lifeguarding at a neighborhood pool. No business casual involved, getting paid, and getting a tan? Sure, sign me up! Getting paid just over Indiana’s measly minimum wage? Adding another year of hometown lifeguarding instead of a viable internship to […]
Maggie Connolly ’21Opinions Editor Every time I open my computer, I see a photo of O’Kane Hall I took on a walk to Kimball. It was a spring Wednesday evening last semester, and I was meeting my cousin for dinner. She was on the apartment meal plan and […]
Name: Maggie Connolly ’21 Position: Opinions Editor (Spring 2018-present) Major: English and Political Science
