This page offers articles of a humorous nature, opinion pieces, social and political commentaries, and even rants. If you’re down for a laugh or hear a side this is the page to go to.
by Marisa Seager I don’t know about you, but one of the highlights of coming back to campus for me is seeing our well-known campus cat, Salem. What started out as just a stray cat hanging around for food and free pets soon turned into a part of our community. Students would often bring him…
by Rebecca Dance The time has come. I stepped on the first crunchy leaf of the season so I am happy to announce that it is September and we are back in school. I admit, there’s something a little bittersweet about taking my last first day pictures on a day where my classes don’t even…
by Rebecca Dance The Queen is dead. The day has come. I am in the middle of a presentation about the Writing Center when all phones in the classroom begin buzzing or flashing. There is a moment of confusion before a single voice breaks through: “Hey everyone, I know this is wildly off topic but…
by Chamberlain Zulauf I’ve written some bangers while I’ve been on staff, I know, and I’m glad to be returning through December of my fifth year. There have definitely been a few people surprised to see me on campus but thankfully they’ve all been glad for it. There’s one big ‘fons et origo’ of my…
by Chamberlain Zulauf Is it too early to be looking forward to summer? Maroons have a few more weeks of school left (three as of this Friday), including finals and the numerous papers, presentations and projects that will be due in the meantime. Exams end May 3rd and graduation is the following Saturday. Afterwards, every…
Dear Roanoke, I don’t know how to thank you for these four years. The person that moved into Chalmers Hall 011 all those years ago wouldn’t recognize me today. I remember being 18, just graduating from highschool. I wasn’t scared when I went to Germany with my best friend from school but I was a…
by Devon Mitchell Studying in Washington DC has been a dream of mine for five years, and now that I am only two weeks away from the conclusion of my Washington Semester, I can’t help but reflect on my time here and if it’s everything I dreamed of. I honestly had no idea what I…
by Marisa Seager The end of the semester as we know it is so close yet so far. It’s easy to look at your class syllabus or phone calendar to count the classes that are left, but that doesn’t include the amount of time and effort it will take to actually get there. After returning…
by Rebecca Dance This is my first real semester being friends with people who are graduating, and it’s worse than I thought it would be. I could feel the dread in the air when finals began looming over the horizon. For a moment, that was all I thought about the end of April: we were…
by Rebecca Dance My sinuses hurt. Since I don’t have a cold and I don’t have COVID (I’ve tested, don’t worry), I’ve decided that it must be seasonal allergies. The only issue with this is that I’ve never had seasonal allergies before. My brother always has the worst hay fever at the beginning of spring,…