The Double-Edged Sword of LGBTQ+ Film
The portrayal of lesbian and gay relationships in cinema often reveals deep-rooted societal perceptions and biases that extend beyond mere storytelling. Films featuring lesbian characters...
Opinions
Not “Gay Enough”? Dismantling the Harm of Compulsory Heterosexuality
The pressure to conform to social norms is a challenge as old as the concept of a society itself, yet is nonetheless harmful to anyone...
Balancing work and life
Last month Australia’s “right to disconnect” law went into full effect, codifying the right of workers to ignore unreasonable contact from their employers after hours....
Ellen DeGeneres: Coping with the loss of persona
To understand Ellen is to understand that Ellen DeGeneres is not Ellen. Ellen is a brand. “Ellen” is an ABC sitcom that aired from 1994...
Looking Back at the Zero-Waste movement
The zero-waste movement rose in popularity around 2018 with the era of the VSCO girl with her Hydro Flask and metal straws, bringing environmental living...
Finding solace in sad songs
Middle school and high school are major phases of life, times when our brains undergo massive changes in a new and challenging environment. These environments...
The (In)famous JoJo Siwa: Sparkles and Strategy
Jojo Siwa. Love her or loathe her, the star’s name reverberates through the corridors of contemporary pop culture with a clamor that’s impossible to ignore....
It’s time for the Yankees to toss out old rules
My dad has taught me many lessons in life, but he made no mistake in choosing the first bit of knowledge to impart on me:...
College Cooking
College students have a reputation for working hard, playing hard and living off instant noodles. The former two stereotypes are generally positive — something that...
Growing Pains
Tech’s Expansion Strains Institute Resources For the first time in institute history, we have over 20,000 undergraduate students. This major milestone is due in part...
Reckoning with the chaotic presidential debate
On Tuesday night in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump faced off in a debate that was a time capsule of...
Gains and shame
No matter who you are or how well you’re doing in life, there will always be something you can improve on: eating more whole foods,...
Tech must unite against gun violence
Supporting friends, families and peers The horrifyingly evil shooting that took the lives of Mason Schermerhorn, Christian Angulo, Richard Aspinwall, and Christina Irimie is...
Campus Construction
At every turn on campus, you can hear the clatter of construction. Blocked sidewalks, traffic cones and the noxious smell of asphalt assail your daily...
No taxes for teens
Our nation was founded in response to the tyrannical ways that Great Britain treated Colonial Americans, including the grievance of unjust taxation without the right...
Serving up life lessons: restaurants teach grit
To me, working in a restaurant is like acting in a play. The rhythm, the ambiance, the spectacle — the cast and crew has to...
Familiarity in new faces
I remember coming to Tech my freshman year, the only one from my small Southwest Georgia high school. Quite literally, a country girl transplanted to...
It’s time to overhaul schools’ gifted programs
For something that would go on to define so much of my life, the day our school’s gifted program started was utterly underwhelming. One day...