Opinion: The Green New Deal Is a Symbolic First Step
By Eli Morton, Columnist Climate change is a severe global crisis of a scale unrivaled in human history. That sentence may sound like it comes from the mouth of an avowed radical, but it is a fact, a fact emphasized by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last fall in the most dire report issued by a major IGO yet. And this week, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) put forth the...
Opinion: Trump Mongers Fear at State of the Union
By Emily Dalgleish, Guest Columnist Historically, when presidents have addressed the joint Congress for the State of the Union after their party was defeated during the midterms, they call for bipartisanship and unity. What distinguishes these speeches is the method which the president uses to seek unity. Though 2018 voters called for change, Trump used the same method to unite people as he did during his 2016 campaign: fear. To call...
Opinion: Climate Change Omitted from State of the Union
By Lauren Sherman, Guest Columnist Listening to the State of the Union Address given by President Trump, my priorities were different from those of most Americans. I didn’t take intensive notes about his manner of speech or stand by my social media accounts ready to take phrases out of context and wage war among my Facebook friends or to take a stance on the white apparel of many Democratic women; that being said, I can’t blame them –...
Opinion: Shutdown without Winners
By Wellington Baumann, Columnist Thanks to a scuffle surrounding 0.1% of the proposed budget, parts of the Federal government went unfunded for 35 days. President Trump asked Congress to appropriate $5.7 billion towards a wall along the southern border, but Congressional Democrats refused to provide a single dollar. Although the government recently reopened due to a short-term funding bill, it will only remain so until February 15th....
Opinion: Senate Attendance Policy Is Pointless
By Augusta Pendergast, Guest Columnist After returning to Senate last Monday as the representative for my clubs, I was reminded of the stupidity of the rule Senate has in which they require a club representative to be present at each meeting. I sat there, waiting for the roll call to say one word, “here” and then sat back and attempted in vain to decipher why I was even there. There were presentations one after another which pertained...
