One month since the election and Trump has yet to concede.
[STAFF EDITORIAL] What we have learned from 2020
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2020 has been a long ride, calling for truth, justice, and unity more than ever.
[SUSTAINABILITY & ETHICS] What’s in your Starbucks cup? Probably slave labor.
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On March 1, Starbucks released a message from Michelle Burns, senior vice president for global coffee and tea, stating that on the next day, a UK news show entitled Dispatches would air a program on child labor on coffee farms in Guatemala, calling out Starbucks.
How do we gain better control and knowledge of COVID-19? Anti-body tests.
How will the country begin to return to normal? Anti-body tests.
It doesn’t add up: TI-84 isn’t the only option
TI’s monopoly on graphing calculators makes for unnecessary challenges for students to succeed despite their access to money, but the change starts with the syllabus.
[STAFF EDITORIAL] Stop allowing (or creating) tech distractions in class
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Put away the laptop when the teacher doesn’t declare it necessary.
Greta Thunberg vs. the thousands of people who came before her
The environmental justice movement didn’t start with Greta Thunberg, and it shouldn’t end with her.
“Save the turtles” and the plastic straw phenomenon
Sure, there are more options than plastic straws, but are they worth it?
Science proves that typing notes is killing your grade
If you close your laptop and open a notebook, you’ll have less studying to do.
Recycling? Maybe. Reduce, reuse, rot instead.
With China’s 2018 import ban in effect, reusing and composting — not recycling — offer the environmental solution.