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What makes a Republican

Picture this: you are a young adult going to college in Boston. Maybe your parents are conservative and you have a Trump flag in your house. Maybe they aren’t, but you’ve always seen your parents as bleeding hearts. You love your country—this is the place where freedom is key. You can speak ill of your […]

Why you should vote New Horizons this elections season!

On a campus as dynamic as Northeastern’s, things can change in a heartbeat. The decisions of our Student Government Association (SGA) often go unnoticed, even though they impact everyone on campus. As a student, the greatest opportunity to learn about SGA and make your voice heard is to vote in our student body elections. If […]

Episode 12: “COVID-19 & College Campuses” with Jake Egelberg

Listen and subscribe to our podcast: Via Spotify | Via Apple Podcasts Jake Egelberg joins Max & Bryan to explain why he thinks colleges were right to reopen and stay open during the COVID-19 pandemic. Jake, a Biochemistry major, also explains how COVID-19 vaccines work and why you should get one.  Jake also joins Ariana for “Class Struggle.” […]

Ideological Influencers and the Right-Wing Domination of Young Minds

Young adults in America are often referenced as a monolithic body—praised for their “generational awareness and generational solidarity,” “passion for making positive change,” and “revolutionizing activism.” Sometimes the profiles present a less insurgent picture; Newsweek depicted Gen Z as a breed of cautious pessimists, shaped by their parents’ cynicism and volatile socioeconomic conditions. Other portrayals […]

Diversity and Inclusion Are Too Important to Be Trivialized

Photo by greatdegree. On August 20, University of Southern California (USC) business professor Greg Patton lectured to his “Communication for Management” class on presenting information effectively. He explained that filler words are culturally specific and based on one’s native language. Patton stated: “like in China, the common word was ‘that, that that that that,’ so […]

The Pandemic Is a Perfect Time to Forgive Student Debt

You see the picture right there? The one of the Federal Reserve headquarters? You see the trees growing in front of it? They’re the closest we’ve come to money growing on trees. That’s because the Fed governors inside have a special tool, one they’ve used plenty during the pandemic to inject liquidity into large financial […]

Why Colleges Staying Open is Still the Right Move

Extensive research demonstrates that COVID-19 does not pose a serious risk to most students. Responding to recent upticks in COVID-19 cases among young adults, colleges nationwide have renounced their intentions to house students for the fall semester. Of colleges that re-opened, many have reverted to online learning following campus outbreaks. These decisions, while seemingly understandable, […]

Universities in the United States have become an Economic and Social Trap

The United States’ higher education system is often cited as the best in the world. Since its conception with Harvard University in 1636, it has ballooned to over four thousand universities and colleges. College degrees in the US have become viewed as a tool for economic prosperity and social mobility. As the economy has changed, […]

The Right’s War on Higher Education

Reactionary politics have never been kind to academia. While a well-educated population is deemed a pillar of a democratic society and strong economy, authoritarian regimes in contrast have a dark history of mistreatment of students and academics. China’s cultural revolution, Mussolini’s persecutions of leftist intellectuals, and the Nazi book burnings show how order and state […]

Pay It Back: A Mentality Adjustment Regarding Student Debt

The United States carries a unique debt burden relative to the rest of the developed world. Student debt has officially become the second-highest debt burden on the United States’ economy, eclipsing auto loans and credit card debt while remaining second only to mortgages.[1] This is thanks to a combination of skyrocketing tuition costs and private […]