Pro: Jackson Whiting
You can’t appreciate the amount of time that goes into the college application process until you have to go through it yourself. I am applying to five schools, and so far I can...
Pro: Women should register for Selective Service
The lottery used to draft American soldiers to fight the Vietnam War in the late 1960s and early 1970s grew extremely unpopular as the war raged into a...
School is more than reading textbooks, listening to lectures and memorizing vocabulary words.
At least, it should be. However, the harsh reality is that with the rigorous Common Core curriculum, ever-increasing...
Silly bands and “Heelys” are popular items that everyone who's anyone has multiples of. At least that is what we thought 2016 would look like 10 years ago.It’s a repeating trend in popular culture....
Donald J. Trump. Son. Father. Grandfather. Personality. Chairman. Author. Actor. Entrepreneur. Owner. Economist. Builder. President?
Trump is running for president of the United States as a Republican....
Bigotry is alive and well in the United States of America. Each day’s news, including the current political news from the presidential election, brings evidence that there is a sizeable number of American...
They say you make some of your best memories in high school, and that high school will be one of the best times of your life.
From the minute I walked in the doors of West as a scared little freshman,...
A true liberal believes in free speech.
A true liberal will defend the right of Donald Trump and also defend the right of the person who decries him a racist, ableist, xenophobic, divisionist or just...
I could taste food in my sleep. I had dreams about doughnuts and Oreos that were so vivid I woke up feeling guilty. I was miserable and hungry, but I felt good.
My eating habits have never been particularly...
Unless you live under a rock, you’ve heard the news. The presidential election is in full swing, even though it is almost a year away.
With almost weekly debates and an overwhelming number of candidates,...
My day was going so well.
A day of media and race relations, a day of meeting new people from around the country, a day riding Rockin' Roller Coasters. But the news of the attacks in Paris was enough...
The first thing she did when she woke up was check her Twitter feed. As she scrolled down through, she saw retweets and direct messages shaming her.
The tweets were about her and a classmate at a party...
