Opinions
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Check Out the Newest Group on Campus, “Active Minds”
Alexandra Blockton ablockton@lc.edu Do you feel as if you just can’t seem to get things organized because your mind is all over the place? Everything seems as if you just can’t get it right,…
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Self-Care
Donnie Becker Dobecker@lc.edu We all need to practice a little more self-care. Whether you like getting a massage, just relaxing with a good meal and watching tv or a million other things you might…
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Self-Expression: No One is Right or Wrong
Olivia Bettorf ombettorf@lc.edu Self-expression is a luxury that everyone can enjoy. Rather it be through makeup, clothes, hair, tattoos or body piercings, no one has a right to judge. Self-expression tends to be both…
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Why True Love Doesn’t Cost a Dime
Alexandra Blockton ablockton@lc.edu Are you in love? Or let’s just say maybe one day in the near future you will be in love, or someone you know may end up in love. Love can…
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Stay Away from People and Places that Bring Out Negative Energy!
Alexandra Blockton ablockton@lc.edu Being a student may, at times, put pressure on you when you surround yourself with toxic people. Toxic people have negative vibes amongst themselves and that transfers to others. Students who…
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How it Feels to Lose Someone Close to You
Alexandra Blockton ablockton@lc.edu Imagine your bellicose heart feeling as if it’s skipping beats as you wake up to an obtuse phone call from your mother, only to inform you that your sibling has been shot…
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Why On Earth Are We Still Gendering Clothes?
Ashtyn Britt abritt@lc.edu For as long as I could remember, I had been told what was boy’s clothes and what was girl’s clothes. When you’re a little kid, you accept what you’re told very…
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Is Anybody Else Already Really Excited For Halloween?
Ashtyn Britt abritt@lc.edu Happy Halloween, everybody! I know that technically it’s only September, but as an avid lover of Halloween, I don’t care. I couldn’t be more excited if I tried, as Halloween is…
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What it’s Like Watching All Your Friends Get Married Before You
Ashtyn Britt abritt@lc.edu Being in your early twenties is a very weird time. Some people you know from high school are in college, some are buying homes, some are in jail, have become addicts,…
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Cigarette Age Increase: It’s Garbage
Olivia Bettorf ombettorf@lc.edu Let us start with the fact that Illinois just put down a bogus law for people who were born after 1998: they can no longer purchase any tobacco products. Yet, we…