Edit Desk: The senior scaries are real
There’s an uneasiness in the air this time of year. I catch a glimpse of it in the eyes of…
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Edit desk: My two neighborhoods
I grew up in two neighborhoods. I lived in the suburbs of Pittsburgh in my family’s Tudor home, surrounded by…
Edit desk: Brothers without barriers
Sometimes life can be pretty good. “Despiertate Alex, despiertate! Solo tenemos poco tiempo!” — the familiar wake up call. I felt…
Edit desk: What’s at stake
The midterms are upon us. We are only six days away. On Nov. 6, Americans will have the chance to…
Edit desk: The urgency of gun legislation
You wave goodbye to your ninth-grader as they walk into school on what appears to be a normal Wednesday, but…
Edit desk: Change the culture
About a month ago, Christine Blasey Ford, a professor at Palo Alto University, publically came forward with her story regarding…
Edit desk: It wasn’t Greek to me
Squeezed into the small desks of our first-semester English class, we listened as my professor tried to incorporate Greek life…
Edit desk: Live in the present
It’s 9 a.m. on a typical Monday morning. I sit in my cubicle nestled in the back corner of the…
Edit desk: Everything breaks even
Anyone who knows me knows I love collecting quotes and phrases that are significant to my life. Although I was…
Edit desk: How do we pop the bubble?
I have spent my life in bubbles. I grew up in an affluent New Jersey suburb, with picturesque houses lining…