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Posts published in “Past Opinion Columns”

Hiking shoes take over

It hasn’t been long since the trend of dad shoes
(clunky models) passed the mantle to hiking shoes, which are bulkier shoes that
also look like they belong right on a hiking trail.

The case for soaking the rich

Can you be too rich? I think so, and so does newly-elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “I’m not saying that Bill Gates or Warren Buffet are immoral,” she said recently, “but a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don’t have access to public health is wrong.”

“Be Tommy Daly”

Off Center responds to a recent stream of letters to the editor.

Singeli’s jump to mainstream

Despite lurking in the underground scene of Tanzania’s former capital, Dar es Salaam, for 15 years, Singeli is ready to take over.

The Space Race in Fashion

What a time to be alive. As a human race, it has been over 60 years since we first landed on the moon, and in the present day, we are preparing to go to Mars.

Painful reality or pleasant delusion?

In my classes, I like making students ponder the pros and cons of knowledge. We talk about Plato’s parable, in which people imprisoned in a cave mistake shadows projected on a wall for reality.

The disastrous Green New Deal

Democrats: The 1930s called and they want their policies back.

The darling of the Democratic Party, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Ed Markey introduced a resolution for a “Green New Deal” in the House and Senate, respectively.

Local Stone Missing from Gatehouse Deconstruction

It is a sad week on campus as the Gatehouse, the last vestige of the great Castle Stevens that once ruled the local countryside with an iron fist, has been taken down for repairs.