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Matt Poe

Opinion: ‘Dunkirk’ is the best movie experience in years

Matt Poe July 22, 2017

I’ve highly anticipated Christopher Nolan’s "Dunkirk" for months now, much like everyone else.You have one of the best directors of our generation working for the first time with non-fiction material,...

Matt Poe

Opinion: We only talk about suicide when it happens

Matt Poe July 21, 2017

I don’t know what to say in this column that I haven’t already in previous ones.All I know is that Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington died Thursday in what appeared to be a suicide. He was 41.Thursday...

Alex Kamczyc

Opinion: A eulogy for Gonzo

Alex Kamczyc July 21, 2017

This week marks the 80th birthday of Hunter S. Thompson, the creator of a genre of writing called Gonzo Journalism.He was a beloved writer to many who had an amazing sense of the culture he was living...

Matt Poe

Opinion: More exposure to radical speech on campuses could be beneficial

Matt Poe July 20, 2017

I’ve always subscribed to the idea that college and its campuses should act as a marketplace for ideas and thoughts. It’s the first time in one’s life where you’re truly exposed to thousands of...

Opinion: It’s time to start treating Jose Ramirez like the MVP candidate he is

Jack Kopanski July 18, 2017

To say the Cleveland Indians have limped into the second half of the season would be an understatement.Starting with a loss to the Detroit Tigers in the last game prior to the All-Star break, they’ve...

Opinion: Heroin Anonymous is set to save lives

Brandon Bounds July 17, 2017

Editor's Note: Two women in this opinion piece asked to remain anonymous. "Stacy" is not the woman's real name, and the other is identified as the "61-year-old" woman to keep their identities private. If...

Alex Kamczyc

Opinion: An Open Letter to Republicans

Alex Kamczyc July 14, 2017

Republicans! Conservatives! People in college who only based their political stances from what their parents told them! Heed these words!As someone who was also raised with republican principles, I too...

Matt Poe

Opinion: Why celebrating the Trump Jr.-Russian emails thing feels wrong

Matt Poe July 13, 2017

Oh, dear readers where to begin with this one? How about a very brief recap:Everyone and their mother knows by now about the emails between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian attorney who offered to aid the...

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Opinion: Stronger community ties are necessary for police reform

Nicholas Hunter July 10, 2017

It is no secret in the U.S. that, in many parts of the country, the relationship between communities and their police forces are quite tenuous.It would be an exercise in futility to list off the countless...

Alex Kamczyc

Opinion: Media Illiteracy is the New Black

Alex Kamczyc July 9, 2017

It seems that nowadays all you see on Youtube and publications like GQ, Rolling Stone and Esquire is something called “sponsored content.”Essentially, these are articles commissioned by a company to...

Matt Poe

Opinion: 5 reasons to use the new Snapchat feature, ‘Snap Map’

Matt Poe July 5, 2017

The ever-popular social media app Snapchat recently introduced its newest feature to entice the masses and excite the local perverts in your community.This new feature known as SnapMap allows users to...

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Opinion: The gray area of technophobia

Nicholas Hunter July 3, 2017

It is very easy to be frightened by technology these days.There is a constant barrage of news about information leaks and data dumps, from voter information accidentally dumped by an analytics company...