Mask wearing should continue after the pandemic
I don’t think I’ll stop wearing my mask even when this pandemic is over. The United States is currently in its third wave, with a higher number of new cases…
Jonas Trostle
Professors, please let us submit PDFs
We are under two weeks away from a presidential election and already eight months into a deadly pandemic, but we still have time for the little things. No, I don’t…
Genetic modification is ready to serve humanity
On Oct. 7, 2020, Dr. Emmanuelle Charpentier and Dr. Jennifer A. Doudna were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work in the field of gene editing. On top…
Americans want food on the table, not a sideshow from the president
I wanted to write about a potential second stimulus bill. The unemployment rate is at 8 percent after starting the year at around 3.5 percent and four out of 10…
Vladimir Putin’s critics keep getting poisoned
In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko spoke his last words just before he succumbed to Polonium-210 poison: “I think, therefore, that this may be the time to say one or two things…
It’s possible to safely reopen colleges, but it’s far from easy
A new model of the potential spread of COVID-19 model was released recently, and I encourage anyone who’s back to college this fall to copy it to their own Google…
Republicans: fearless defenders of our great Constitution
I can sleep soundly at night knowing that the beautiful document that I love, the U.S. Constitution, is safe in the hands of our current leader. President Trump has done…
Vassar to file amicus brief in support of lawsuit against ICE directive
[July 14 update: In a victory for Vassar and colleges and universities across the United States, the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have completely rescinded their…
Floyd’s death did not ‘occur’; police officers killed him
A police officer in Minneapolis knelt on George Floyd’s neck for more than five minutes, even as Floyd said he couldn’t breathe, and even after Floyd was forced unconscious. Make…
Thank ABBA for ‘Old Town Road’
In 1986, three years before he would release “Pretty Hate Machine,” Trent Reznor attended a Depeche Mode concert. As the concert came to an end, Depeche Mode, who were on…