The best four years: systemic privilege
“Ten minutes, 30 seconds,” my gym teacher shouted as I completed my first mile-run fitness test in middle school. Not…
Browsing: Opinion
Edit desk: Learning for the sake of learning
My first childhood memories take place in my kindergarten classroom. I remember sitting on the rug, as my teacher read…
Editorial: Terms and conditions
I agree to the terms and conditions. We make this haphazard commitment on a daily basis, not acknowledging the danger…
Edit Desk: Apathy at Lehigh
The shocked faces of my parents, the excitement in my voice, the approval from my friends: “That’s awesome,” they would…
Letter to the Editor: A Metric for Lehigh’s Path to Prominence
The most serious decisions that a University makes involve the tenuring and promotion of its faculty. Typically, a faculty member’s…
Edit desk: Growing from adversity
It was a bleak evening in October 2011 as I sat in the passenger seat beside my father. The tears…
Edit desk: Sympathetic inaction
As all eyes turn to the television, an unprecedented hush quickly quiets the chatter in nail salon. For a brief…
Editorial: The widening gap
The mindset that higher education is widely unattainable is not a new phenomenon. A history of affirmative action and schools…
The learning curve: MOOCs
Conventional wisdom sees students with perfect attendance as perfect students. But that argument only holds up assuming that attending a…
Art interpreted: Truth from fiction
Blink and you will miss it. Whether it be between the hallways that students walk through, underneath the fluorescent light…