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EDITOR’S COLUMN: Why I boycott

Columns, Editor's Column, Opinions, Top Stories January 17, 2024 Jessica Oakes 0 Comments

No matter how easy it is to feel helpless while reading about another war, I believe it is important to remember the power of our own wallets. The world put […]

EDITOR’S COLUMN: Art for art’s sake

Columns, Editor's Column, Opinions, Top Stories January 10, 2024 Jessica Oakes 0 Comments

We shouldn’t leave the arts only to prodigies. I have been around art my whole life. My mom taught choir and my dad moved from painting to furniture making. If […]

EDITOR’S COLUMN: The other side

Editor's Column, Opinions, Top Stories December 6, 2023 Jessica Oakes 0 Comments

I am months away from replacing the stress of getting a degree with the stress of using the degree. At every holiday party and meeting with a former professor, I […]

EDITOR’S COLUMN: Season’s spendings

Columns, Editor's Column, Opinions, Top Stories November 29, 2023 Jessica Oakes 0 Comments

Black Friday and Cyber Monday just marked the beginning of the spending spree we call the holidays. People today, especially Americans, hardly need a reason to indulge in more tech, […]

EDITOR’S COLUMN: Chilling free speech

Columns, Editor's Column, Opinions, Top Stories November 15, 2023 Jessica Oakes 0 Comments

One of my greatest frustrations with Ferris these past four years has been the overall neutrality of our campus culture. I thought that entering college during an election year, a […]

EDITOR’S COLUMN: Female billionaires are not the answer

Columns, Editor's Column, Opinions November 8, 2023 Jessica Oakes 0 Comments

When working towards a more equal society, we do not need billionaires of all shapes, sizes, colors and gender. We need less billionaires. Bloomberg broke the news late in October that […]

EDITOR’S COLUMN: Type B with straight As

Columns, Editor's Column, Opinions, Top Stories November 1, 2023 Jessica Oakes 0 Comments

To me, leadership has never been synonymous with dominance. I’ve found myself in leadership positions ever since I was a young student. Because of this, people assume I’m something like […]

EDITOR’S COLUMN: Working out impossible tasks

Editor's Column, Opinions, Top Stories October 25, 2023 Jessica Oakes 0 Comments

The thought of running, playing sports or lifting weights in front of people used to be the most embarrassing thing imaginable. Now, I can hardly go a day without spending […]

EDITOR’S COLUMN: The importance of real research

Editor's Column, Opinions, Top Stories October 18, 2023 Jessica Oakes 0 Comments

Whether the topic is COVID-19, global politics or the upcoming Gotion plant, many people in the digital age believe they’ve become experts through alternative independent research. I believe that our […]

EDITOR’S COLUMN: The Amazon problem

Editor's Column, Opinions, Top Stories October 11, 2023October 11, 2023 Jessica Oakes 0 Comments

The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon last week, alleging an algorithmic monopoly. In their complaint, the FTC claimed that “Amazon recognizes the importance of maintaining the perception that it has […]

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