By KIAN MAHMOUDI Staff Writer
So then the election comes around and I begin to wonder: why is voting, this extremely important, mass-scale operation involving the inputs of every citizen in the country, conducted on good old fashioned holepunched paper?
Category: Opinion
Promises Kept? An Analysis on Trump and Biden’s Claims on Healthcare
By JULIE SAKAMOTO Staff Writer
Healthcare is one of the most important issues in this years election. When it comes to Biden vs Trump on healthcare, is there a clear cut winner?
Pokémon Go to the Polls (Satire)
By EVAN CHOE Staff Writer
It is the final battle of the Pokémon Go to the Polls title. Pokémon trainer Noobmaster96 and his starter Pokémon, Joe Biden, now have to face his rival Chimcharsucks15, and his starter Pokémon - Donald Trump - in a final Pokémon battle. The coming battle will determine the champion over the region.
Should we be Reopening our Schools This Fall?
By ARIANE OCHOA Staff Writer Many schools in states such as Texas, Florida, and Arkansas have already opened up, but is reopening schools a necessity in the midst of a pandemic?
Epic vs Apple: Why Market Competition is Good
By KIAN MAHMOUDI Staff Writer Epic Games updated its flagship battle royale game "Fortnite" with a permanent 20% discount on "V-Bucks," the in-game currency last month on August 13. By the end of the day, Fortnite was removed from both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, leading Epic to file lawsuits against Apple and Google for antitrust violations and anticompetitive behavior.
Crypto-Wars: The Fight for Online Privacy
By ALBERT RONG Staff Writer COVID-19 has sent society into disarray as people try to adjust their daily lives to a new reality. Underneath the cloak of chaos, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and California’s very own Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), amongst many others, have cosponsored the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of...
A Perspective in This Time of Crisis
By ARUSH MEHROTRA Staff Writer “I can’t breath.” These were George Floyd’s last words as former Officer Derek Chauvin of the Minneapolis Police Department murdered Floyd by putting his knee on Floyd’s neck for more than eight and a half minutes straight. The era of slavery and Jim Crow was defined by social and legal...
The Real Heroes in the Coronavirus Situation: A Satire
By NEHA BHARDWAJ Staff Writer The media has repeatedly championed the so-called heroes during this “pandemic” – healthcare workers, scientists, and other frontline workers. Frankly, it sickens me to see such flagrant lies paraded about by the media sources that we trust to give us reliable information. So, in the spirit of dispelling these heinous...
He Name, He Saw, He Conquered: the Chronicles of X-AE A-12 (A Satire)
By JAX ARMSTRONG Staff writer Dusk has fallen, and the Healers of Valor have risen to the second coming of the messiah. A genius, a savant, the unquestionable reincarnate of our leader, the future of the millenium, X-AE A-12. Conceived under the light of god, birthed from the Virgin Mary vicariously through the flesh of...
7 Reasons Why We Support Joe Biden in America’s Most Critical Election Ever
By JAX ARMSTRONG, NEHA BHARDWAJ, LUKE CURTIS, NIKKI GHAEMI, ARUSH MEHROTRA, NIMA MOVAHEDI, & OZHAN ZARIFI Staff Writers 1. Joe Biden will protect our air, land, water, endangered species, and people Combating the growing threat, and considerable damage to climate change has become one of the cornerstones of the Progressive movement. These beliefs...