Editorial
Video game workers need to further unionize in 2024
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2023 was great for gamers. An incredible amount of fantastic new video games were released, like Baldur’s Gate 3, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and far too many more to list....
UMSU quiet on Palestine because it bungles everything
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UMSU has not been entirely silent on what professor of Holocaust and genocide studies Raz Segal has called “a textbook case of genocide” of Palestinians, but they also haven’t done anything more proactive than...
A ballad of songbirds, snakes and ingenuity
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Ever since the trailer for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes came out this April, the world of The Hunger Games — or as some might call it, my own version of the Roman...
My struggle with name and identity
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We are fragile mosaics of everything we have ever known, and that starts with what we believe is truly our own — our names. Harmat was the name I was supposed to have until...
The modern lawn is dead
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The overwhelming popularity of the short grass lawn is one of the single most devastating trends in residential landscaping. Not only is it boring and unimaginative, it is an ecological nightmare based on classist...
An ode to The Real Housewives from a history lover
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Bravo’s The Real Housewives is my Roman Empire. I mean, the Roman Empire is also my Roman Empire, as a classics student. One way or another, I love and am obsessed with The Real...
Change and adaptation in the flow of life
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I think life is something that has to go through a process of constant change and adaptation. These changes are important parts of our lives, including changes in emotions, human relationships and in the...







