Author: eedman21
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How Equitable is the Vaccine Rollout?
On December 11, 2020, the FDA officially approved the distribution of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine in the U.S. While vaccine rollout initially began with high-risk workers in the healthcare industry, the conversation has always been, “how do we prioritize who should receive the vaccine?” The answer to this questions was those who are the greatest…
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COVID-19’s Effect on The US Prison Population
By Nitya Gupta ‘23, Social Justice Writer Since the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and distribution began in the United States, there has been an ongoing debate on who shall receive the vaccine first. However, it seems as if the American public and government officials have dismissed a large, yet forgotten, group of people that have been…
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Why We Can’t Take Peaceful Transitions of Power for Granted
By Erica Edman, Editor-in-Chief I used to think of the Revolution of 1800 as just one of countless vocab terms buried in my old AP US History notes. Two-hundred and twenty years after the revolution, the prospect of transferring political power from one party to another seems pretty mundane in America. I don’t blame myself…
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Stop Racism, Not Black Votes
By Julia Schwed ‘21, Editor-in-Chief It is no secret that there have long been efforts to disenfranchise people of color in the United States. For years, these efforts primarily were focused on making it more difficult for people of color to cast their votes. One of the tactics that has been used in several states…
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From Jim Crow to Jail Cells: Re-Enfranchise America’s Prison Population
By Nitya Gupta ‘23, Social Justice Writer While Election Day 2020 will be remembered for Joe Biden’s victory for the highest office in the land, it also marked a historic win for felons and ex-convicts with the passing of Proposition 17 in California. Prop. 17–a state constitutional amendment that allows people on parole for felonies…
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How to Make Voting in a Pandemic Harder: Texas’ Guide to Voter Suppression
By Navyaa Jain ‘23, Social Justice Writer On November 3rd, 2020, for the first time in 100 years, a record number of Americans—nearly 160 million—voted in the presidential election. While the country had millions of people turn out to vote on Election Day, the pandemic caused many to vote early through mail-in ballots. This option…
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Voter Suppression Through Registration Requirements in the 2020 Election
By Katie Powers ‘22, Social Justice Writer Voter suppression is one of the most large-scale aspects of the systematic disenfranchisement of minorities in America. In the 2020 election, this took several forms, one significant example being voter registration requirements. Possibly the highest-impact registration requirement is that of photo identification. Thirty-six states across the country require…
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How NA Has Changed Forever
By Erica Edman ‘21, Editor-in-Chief After six months of remote learning and social isolation, we have finally returned to normalcy… ish. Instead of being welcomed by a teacher at the door, we’re greeted by a robot scanning our temperature. Our definition of a classroom has taken on a completely new life as we try to…
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The Generational Divide over Religion
By Michaela Wang ‘21, Feature Editor You may have driven behind an Ichthys bumper sticker – those intersecting arcs that form a fish symbol of Jesus Christ – or rotated through Bat Mitzvah sweatshirts each day of the week. But did you know what those symbols and milestones meant? For many of today’s younger generation,…
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OK, Boomer
By Michael Pyo ‘22, Feature Writer In 2015, the phrase “OK, boomer” was used as an insult to those who seemed not in tune with the happenings of the modern world; this happened mostly on an anonymous imageboard website called 4chan. Since then, the phrase has slowly died out, as most memes do, but recently,…