Disclaimer: Although this opinion column is titled Girl Talk, sexual assault can affect anyone of any gender.
Halloween is my absolute favorite holiday.
The Stute
If there’s one thing I love more than Halloween, it’s Halloween music. There’s something about Halloween that gives people the creative freedom to just go wild.
It’s Halloween already. Every day blends together, and this semester is going faster with ample stress on our shoulders. It is going fast enough that we are already a quarter of the way through the academic year, with seniors’ uncertain future approaching.
To this day, I still have some friends that won’t watch Coraline. And honestly, I don’t blame them. Even though it’s technically described as a children’s movie and I first watched it in elementary school, the underlying themes of this movie are anything but childish.
As a college student, the best part of Halloween is dressing up in a costume. Some people go all out, while others do the bare minimum.
Philosophers bicker over what morality means, but you could define it as simply helping others. The moral movement called longtermism says we should do more to help those who might live in the future; we should try to maximize the numbers and happiness of possible people.
At the beginning of October, the Nobel Foundation began its annual tradition of conferring six distinguished awards for advances in medicine, physics, chemistry, literature, peace, and economics.
A new, robotic drug capsule was created to allow large proteins, like insulin, to be better delivered and absorbed through the digestive tract which would allow them to be taken orally.
Influenza, otherwise known as the flu, is unfortunately due to make a comeback this year. During the last two years, the flu, along with other respiratory viruses, was not as prevalent because the COVID-19 virus was more contagious.
On October 10, the Middle Atlantic Conference named its weekly awards for Players of the Week. Stevens Ducks Rachel Rouse of Women’s Soccer was honored as Offensive Player of the Week, and Bailey Axelrad of Women’s Volleyball was honored as Defensive Player of the Week.