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Fluid self-identity not limited to adolescence

Erica Gelman, columnist
December 18, 2015

The thing about adolescence, according to Erik Erikson, is that everyone struggles to find their identity among all of the roles around them. The thing about Erik Erikson is that he, like many other psychologists,...

Homecoming elicits good memories

Erica Gelman, columnist
November 16, 2015

I remember my first homecoming. I was not yet disillusioned by the tremors of life, wore a black dress and spent three hours in the bathroom with my mom to style my hair. There was a rumor that someone...

Assumption of failure proves unjust in decision to drop classes

Assumption of failure proves unjust in decision to drop classes

Dana Sim, columnist
November 6, 2015

There is a girl who takes six AP classes, leads three clubs, participates in two sports and works from 6 to 9 every night. She comes home, skips dinner and does homework for the next five hours. Then she...

Vulnerability leads to increased trust, stronger friendships

Vulnerability leads to increased trust, stronger friendships

Charlie You, columnist
November 6, 2015

Regardless of the topic, my closest friends know that I have a natural tendency to passionately and blatantly speak of all the things that displease me. For example, I hate when I get kicked out of the...

Introversion necessitates perspective, understanding

Dana Sim, columnist
October 29, 2015

Sometimes, I get a text on Friday nights. I’m home alone watching a movie or reading a book, and this text would be my only link to the outside world. It would say something like, “Hey, come on out...

Korean-American identity overcomes assimilation

Korean-American identity overcomes assimilation

Charlie You, columnist
October 2, 2015

“The Koreans are coming, the Koreans are coming!” my friend Jimmy exclaimed. In the summer of 2012, twenty-five native Korean students joined my church friends and me at a summer band camp. Though...

SeaWorld animal mistreatment requires action

SeaWorld animal mistreatment requires action

Lilly Ludwig, columnist
July 17, 2015

To be honest, I was thoroughly unimpressed when I saw Shamu live. I recall telling my parents that Clifford the Big Red Dog was bigger and then suggesting that we get snow cones instead of watching. However,...

Legitimate effort necessary in PARCC test

Dana Sim, columnist
June 21, 2015

A student settles in to take the PARCC test, but instead of carefully reading the passages and typing up a well thought-out essay, he checks in random answers and writes absolute gibberish for the essay....

Filtering of social media encourages productivity

Filtering of social media encourages productivity

Danny Fookson, senior columnist
May 29, 2015

It’s 8:00 p.m. The Instagram posts have slowed down. I found the perfect Prom picture, and I’ll get the most likes if I post now. Okay. I posted it. Scroll scroll scroll. Who liked my picture? Scroll...

Kendrick Lamar merges personal narrative, denunciations of society

Nish Asokan, columnist
April 24, 2015

To those who compared Kendrick Lamar’s sophomore effort, good kid, m.A.A.d city, to a movie I would say that Lamar’s latest album, To Pimp a Butterfly, is more of a hip-hopera. The album runs for 79...

Societally-encouraged casual consideration of violence harmfully desensitizes

Lilly Ludwig, columnist
April 24, 2015

We heard a pounding on the bedroom door, and the enemy began to pick the lock. Terrified, my partner and I stripped the mattress off the bed and slammed it up against the door, but the boys were stronger,...

Animated movies deserving of artistic recognition

Dana Sim, columnist
April 17, 2015

The theater was over-crowded. The line was full of excited people carrying posters of their favorite stars and dressed up as the famed character. Was it another Lord of the Rings? It must be a Harry Potter...

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