Opinion: A Message to Liberals from a Former Trump Supporter
By Tom Cassara ’23, Guest Columnist In 2016, my high school had a mock election ahead of the presidential election. The school’s administration had a voting booth brought in and placed in our schools’ main cafeteria. It represented a pretty solid exercise in civic preparedness. Over the course of several days, students could vote during school hours, reinforcing the notion that voting should be personal and private. As a social...
Opinion: The Case For A Pass/Fail Semester
By Thomas Cassara, Staff Writer On March 25, 2020, students were given the opportunity to opt into a Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U) grading scale for the spring semester, where any letter grade of a D- or more would be listed as ‘Satisfactory’ and would not impact a student’s GPA. This grading option gave many students, myself included, a feeling of peace. The college chose to acknowledge our struggles with the COVID-19 pandemic...
