Category: Commentary
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Brock Turner: A Shortened Sentence And A Bigger Picture
By Sophie Gilbert ’19 Almost two years ago, at a Stanford frat party in January of 2015, a woman was discovered behind a dumpster, unconscious, half-naked, being sexually assaulted by a student. Five months ago, in March of 2016, that student, Brock Turner committing the assault, was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault,…
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Pokémon Going Forward
By Brady Sheaffer ’18 On July 6th, 2015 a relatively unknown company named Niantic released one of the most revolutionary apps in history, Pokémon Go, which changed the way we look at handheld virtual gaming and opened up countless opportunities for future projects. As many of you are familiar with this addicting app, Pokémon Go…
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It’s Got to (Pokemon) Go!
By Ryan Gajarawala ’18 Early this summer, Pokemon Go took the world by storm. Released on July 6th, 2016, the Pokemon Go game is a free-to-play, location-based augmented reality mobile device game in lech players use their mobile device to locate, capture, battle and train Pokemon, who appear on the screen as if they were…
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The School Next Door
By Meghna Padmanabhan ’17 On Sunday, September 11, a day known to every single American as the anniversary of one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in our history, I received a text about the possibility of a shooting at Livingston High School. Immediately, my thoughts went to all of the people I knew at…
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Harambe: A Short-Lived Fanaticism or a Cultural Movement?
By Siddarth Tumu ‘18 You’ve heard his name. You’ve seen the memes. You’ve either embraced the movement or rejected it as completely ludicrous. Harambe was a western lowland gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo who, on May 28, 2016, was shot to death after a three-year old boy climbed into the gorilla enclosure. Fearing for the…
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The Construction: Is the Temporary Inconvenience Worth the Long Term Benefits?
By Siddarth Tumu ’18, Commentary Editor Students returning to school for the second half of the spring semester are generally greeted by warm weather and the bittersweet knowledge of the hard work ahead of them. However, this year, students were also greeted by the incessant noise and presence of construction, specifically in the upstairs science…
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The Apple of My (FB)I
By Meghna Padmanabhan ’17, Commentary Editor We’ve been told millions of times that anything we say or do on the Internet is public. Yet it came as a surprise to many of us when we found out that information we believe to be kept private, like text messages and photos, was at the brink of…
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Crippled Republicans: How The Republican Party is Falling Apart
By Spencer Glassman ’19, Staff Writer Donald Trump has been the centerpiece of American political conversation since he declared his presidential candidacy last June. He has also become the figurehead of a Republican party that largely disdains him. Donald Trump has become too extreme with his disregard for diplomacy and sensibility, creating a situation where he would…
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No Syrian Refugees
By Roman Wright ’19, Staff Writer The recent crisis of refugees fleeing the Syrian Civil War is one of the largest in recent history, with over four and a half million Syrians leaving their native land and going to other countries. The majority of them are in Turkey, an estimated 2.5 million in tent cities…
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Commentary 2015 Year in Review
By Jocelyn Tolpin ’17 and Charles Pan ’18, Commentary Editors January 2015: Je suis Charlie; November 2015: Je suis Paris So needless to say, 2015 started out rough. Two Al-Qaeda members, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi murdered 11 people in the Charlie Hebdo offices and injured 11 others. Je suis Charlie (meaning: I am Charlie)…