Emily Brown, Columnist
October 11, 2018
Filed under Opinion
National Coming Out Day has been on Oct. 11 since 1988, and it is a time for the LGBTQIA+ community to celebrate who they are. A lot of times, especially on college campuses, Coming Out Day becomes Coming Out Week, and there are...
Chloé McElmury, Senior Columnist
October 11, 2018
Filed under Opinion
It can be hard leaving someone who says they love you, even when you question it. My partner’s behavior started as just emotional manipulation and eventually led to physical abuse. At the time, I was afraid to leave. It’s...
Hanna Bubser, Senior Columnist
October 11, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Remember in high school when alumni would come back for the homecoming football game? Yeah, me neither. Homecoming in high school was a completely different world. In my town, it was mostly celebrated by current students- without...
Andy Stec, Senior Collumnist
October 7, 2018
Filed under Opinion
“It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism,” Mark Fisher lamented in Capitalist Realism. He was speaking of the modern motif of equating a dominant economic system with ‘Reality’ itself. To thi...
Alyxandra Sego, Collumnist
October 7, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Before I came to college, I was a Christian, homeschooled teenager. I grew up hopping from one church to another because all the Evangelical churches were too “contemporary” for my very religious mother, and all of the traditional...
Emily Brown, reporter
October 7, 2018
Filed under Opinion
When Steve Anderson told me HUSC’s current focus was making Hamline University more accessible this summer, I was astounded. I knew that Hamline wasn’t accessible even before I had to endure the stress of Piper Preview. My...
Chloe McElmury, Senior Collumnist
September 28, 2018
Filed under Opinion
A minimum wage increase to $15 in the city of Saint Paul isn’t in the books yet, but many believe we will have a solution shortly. Advocates for the increase include Mayor Melvin Carter, who said in a statement he is “committed...
Hanna Bubser, Senior Collumnist
September 28, 2018
Filed under Opinion
One thing that is unarguable is the price. The unlimited meal plan is ticketed at $2,629.00, as listed on the dining services website. That is a decent chunk of money, and for some students it is simply not worth it. A first-year...
Brianna Skildum, Senior Reporter
September 28, 2018
Filed under Opinion
We’ve all seen the #brokecollegestudent meme, perhaps as we scroll through the Instagram explore page or as we browse Twitter feeds. They typically state, “You know you’re a broke college student when…” followed by...
Chloé McElmury, Senior Collumnist
September 21, 2018
Filed under Opinion
Move-in day 2015 was not glamorous. It was sweaty, it was anxiety-ridden. It wasn’t my new beginning or fresh start. I didn’t see it as a divine chance to reinvent myself or find new life-long friends or any of those rosy s...
Hanna Bubser, Senior Collumnist
September 21, 2018
Filed under Opinion
For those of you who don’t know who I am, allow me to introduce myself: my name is Hanna, and I’m a senior here at Hamline. With that in mind, let me paint a picture for you: it is a Thursday night and I am sitting on a jam-packed...
Andy Stec, Senior Collumnist
September 21, 2018
Filed under Opinion
St. Paul teachers and Hamline students alike marched down Snelling in protest once, a year and some change ago. When current Secretary of Education Betsy Devos was first going through her congressional hearings for approval, Hamline...
