Category / 2021 / 36.1 Rot & Rebirth

By Harry Campbell, Social Media Editor Artwork by Ethan Loderstedt, Staff Artist The mushrooms grow in the wake of man They march to the city, hand in hand With stench of bark and blood of land To search for a place to call home Ugly and bloated and covered in mud, the man in the…

By Kate DickmanArtwork by Mingyi Suo, Staff Artist Clearly, we are going through a crisis. At this point, we have been in this pandemic for nearly two years. Nobody could have imagined what would happen to our society in these two years. Maybe more importantly, however, nobody could have imagined that we would still be…

By Robert BurchArtwork by Daniel Moroze After the disastrous showdowns between Trump and Biden in their 2020 contest for the presidency, the last thing people want to do is sit through another presidential debate. As it turns out, we might not get the chance to. Presidential debates could become a thing of the past due…

By Neil Chopra On October 28, 2021, the company formerly known as Facebook announced a monumental rebrand, changing its name to Meta and focusing on the development of what their CEO Mark Zuckerberg termed the "metaverse," a far-off virtual reality where people will be able to "teleport instantly as a hologram to be at the…

By Julian McCallArtwork by Lea Despotis Today, it's easy to view nuclear war as a lesson of ancient 20th century history or a backdrop for apocalyptic novels. The nearly 80 years of nuclear peace since the attacks on Japan can pacify us into believing nuclear war is impossible. However, the lack of past nuclear war…

By Tyler QuigleyArtwork by Eric Kim, Design Lead "Are you a glass half-empty or glass half-full kind of person?" is a question that most people have heard at least once in their life, even if it wasn't framed in this exact manner. Asking someone if they are a pessimist or an optimist is often used as a personality gauge for individuals,…

By Erin Ritter In 1776, a white man by the name of John Heath was rejected by two different exclusionary societies on his college campus. Outraged, he decided to cook up his own homemade society; one that would accept him and the leftovers of those like him (rich, male, and white.) Greek Life as we…