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Not-so-Great Expectations

Not-so-Great Expectations

November 20, 2015

Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Thanksgiving is coming up. You know, that one holiday the world just forgot about this year. The small,...

Class Registration: A Horror Story

Class Registration: A Horror Story

November 13, 2015

Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor   It was a brisk day in April. Not a high school senior and not yet a college freshmen, 18-year-old...

Fall: A Controversy

Fall: A Controversy

November 6, 2015

Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Fall is the most confusing season. It’s like a temperamental youth struggling through adolescence –...

Fight the disease, not each other

Fight the disease, not each other

October 30, 2015

Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor   There are very few things in this world that don’t discriminate. Everyone and everything seems...

American privilege:  Take-out edition

American privilege: Take-out edition

October 23, 2015

Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor If a professor starts a sentence with, “Today we’re going to watch…” heads turn, phones are put...

Respect and consideration

Respect and consideration

October 16, 2015

Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Stubbornness is exhausting. Defying change is, often, pointless. An existence based solely on closed-minded...

Fight or flight

Fight or flight

October 9, 2015

Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Why is our instinct always to escape? For instance, I just attempted to escape the responsibility of...

Meet your maker

Meet your maker

September 25, 2015

Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor We are most definitely a product of our environment. And by “environment” I mean “popular culture.”...

Unoriginal content

Unoriginal content

September 18, 2015

Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Despite Andre Gide’s successful career as an author and despite being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...

The Twilight Zone: college edition

The Twilight Zone: college edition

September 11, 2015

Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Have you ever thought about how weird college is? I’m a very weird person, and even I’m aware of...

Planned obsolescence

Planned obsolescence

September 4, 2015

Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor We’re living on borrowed time. In this case, I don’t mean in the sense that we’re all SLOWLY DYING...

Senioritis, be gone.

Senioritis, be gone.

August 28, 2015

Column by Allison Borthwick, Opinion Editor Self-righteousness hath no fury like a soon-to-be graduating senior. It was true in high school, and it’s...

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