Maggie Connolly ’21 Opinions Editor Just before Thanksgiving, New York City closed all public schools due to the city’s 3% positivity rate for a consistent seven days. This was the measure Mayor Bill de Blasio decided would be the threshold for keeping the school system opened when he […]
Maggie Connolly ’21 Chief Opinions Editor This has been a solemn week, to say the least. My heart broke on Monday night when I heard the news that Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed to the Supreme Court less than a week before the election. Now, just a few […]
Maggie Connolly ’21 Opinions Editor Donald Trump’s response to Covid has clearly already been a colossal failure. Now, on top of his failure to the country, he has failed himself and many of his political peers and close advisors. Trump’s positive Covid test last Friday shocked the world, […]
Name: Maggie Connolly ’21 Position: Chief Opinions Editor Major: Political Science with Creative Writing Minor If you made a new section for the paper, it would be: A celebrity/pop culture section – I’m a sucker for any pop culture gossip!
Maggie Connolly ‘21 Chief Opinions Editor Last Friday, we lost an icon. Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for women in this country and beyond. She was the second woman to ever serve on the United States Supreme Court. She was a part of countless famous rulings, including […]
Maggie Connolly ‘21 Chief Opinions Editor Are we surprised to see another Trump slip up? In the last few days, countless news outlets have been covering Trump’s conversation with Washington Post journalist, Bob Woodward in mid-April. So, what exactly did he say this time? “This thing is a […]
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 […]
