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The federal government shouldn’t be the priority

Mark Linker Opinion Editor    When sitting on my couch at 5:30 on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, we have yet to know what the outcome of the 2024 presidential election will be. However, regardless of the results, there’s an undeniable truth that can be taken from this election cycle as a whole. Since 2016, there’s […]

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Donald Trump didn’t win. The Manosphere did.

Michael Keehan Staff Writer      Let me make something clear: Trump supporters are not inherently bigoted. While the last few months have shown very ugly sides of MAGA rhetoric, as I discussed in another piece two months ago about the cat-eating hoax, there are still many reasons one would’ve voted for Trump, and the […]

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The death of higher education

Mark Linker Opinion Editor    A few weeks ago, I wrote a column about the decline of traditional humanities degrees in universities. This is a shift that has been happening over the past couple of decades with factors such as the increased cost of living, ideological capture of many humanities fields, and free access to […]

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What was once Twitter is now a propaganda machine. Bluesky is the future.

Michael Keehan Staff Writer    I write a lot about social media in these opinion pieces, particularly the way unsavory characters use it to spread propaganda, and the worst example is easily the site once known as Twitter. Since its acquisition by tech billionaire Elon Musk, the site has undergone a new name and branding. […]

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Bring back sea shanties

Kaitlyn Leister Associate Arts & Culture Editor   Back in 2021, there was a rise in a popular sea shanty-style song that made its way around the internet. The song “Wellerman,” gained multiple covers all over the internet in that short amount of time before it was on to the next trend. The song just […]

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Bernie Sanders has been betrayed by the Democratic Party

  Sevan Sinton Associate News Editor   Bernard “Bernie” Sanders was born on Sept. 4, 1941 in Brooklyn, to Jewish-Polish parents Eli and Dorothy Sanders. His father, Eli, found modest work as a paint salesman, managing to sparingly provide for his two sons, Larry and Bernie. “It’s not that we were poor, but [there was […]

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Millersville wi-fi is a frustrating and tedious chore

  Michael Keehan Staff Writer   Are you a human living in the year 2024? If so, there is a high likelihood, especially in the U.S., that you frequently use the internet. As much as older folks complain about how kids are always on “those darn phones,” it’s undeniable personal technology is a necessity these […]

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Dry-walls lead to dry minds

  Jake Long Associate Opinion Editor    As students, we spend the majority of our time learning in and out of the classroom the necessary skills that will impact our future success in the industries of our desire. Learning begins from the moment we are born and is instantly full of wonder and possibility. We […]

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Why medicare for all is the only moral healthcare system

  Mark Linker Opinion Editor    The modern world, specifically capitalism, has alleviated many scarcity problems that characterized the pre-modern world. This is a great good that has lifted millions of individuals from poverty and starvation. Getting mass supply at a cheap cost to as many people as possible in a lot of ways brings […]

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The foundations of religion within the psyche

Mark Linker Opinion Editor   There are a few ways one can analyze through the lens of psychology. The most widely used method is through the individual landscape. Behaviorism and psychoanalysis are two of the most common branches of psychology that aim at treating the individual when in a therapeutic setting. Nevertheless, humans are social […]