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Written by Vanessa Mutesi February, the month of love. It’s almost Valentine’s Day, and love is slowly brewing in the air. Every year around this time, decorations usually consist of red and pink hearts, and people are either all cuffed up or just ignoring it. People call it the month of love, and the usual…
Written by Joyelle Ronan I give pretty good relationship advice. If you’re thinking, “But Joy, you’ve been single for so long. How do you know anything about love?” First of all, don’t call me out like that. Secondly, that’s exactly the reason why I’m qualified to advise others. When cupid is depicted, he’s always alone….
Written by Ethan Perritt It’s been a long road to the end of racism in America — one that seems never-ending. And even though we’ve made strides as a country, we’re nowhere near the end goal. In his Grammys acceptance speech for his album, IGOR, Tyler, the Creator, made note of the institutional racism in…
Written by Caisi Calandra My time at Roanoke College is coming to an end, and I’m finding that, during my last semester, I’m taking a seminar class and my INQ-300 at the same time. Pretty smart planning on my behalf, right? I actually needed to postpone one of my classes last semester — otherwise I…
Written by Zachary Dalton The year is 2020. A hundred years ago it was 1920. They had an exquisite nickname for the 1920s: “The Roaring Twenties.” A lot of New Year’s Eve parties had that exact theme (realistically they were just Great Gatsby themed because everyone loves my boy DiCaprio). I believe that this year…
Written by Joyelle Ronan Award season is a great time to celebrate diverse American and foreign films. Unfortunately, award shows such as The Academy Awards, also known as The Oscars, notoriously lack female and POC representation. They’re about as diverse as the list of U.S. Presidents. I feel like if it weren’t for the actor…
Written by Devon Mitchell The New Hampshire primaries are on Feb. 11, meaning that being in the granite state is the perfect place to be — if you’re interested in seeing candidates speak on their campaign trail. I was lucky enough to attend three separate town halls: Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, and Andrew Yang. Being…
Written by Vanessa Mutesi Friends, we all have our different categories for friends. There are people we consider our acquaintances, the basic friends, and then the chosen family. With each category of friends, we build a certain level of comfort around these people in order for there to be some form of connection. However, because…
Written by Caisi Calandra Hear me out — I love shopping. At any given moment of writing this article, just know I’m probably tempted to turn this into a Confessions of a Shopaholic thing. In the spirit of keeping things Holiday-oriented, I wanted to do a piece on the crazy shopping “holidays” we have going…
Written by Devon Mitchell It’s the Christmas season and soon enough grades K-12 will be celebrating in the classroom. Christmas parties will be held, Christmas movies will be viewed, and fun festive crafts will be made. It sounds like a great time for kids, but could these traditions be unconstitutional? The constitution states that as…