By Destiny Jackson, Co-Opinion Editor The semester is over. No more essays uploaded to Blackboard at 11:59 pm. No more teachers assigning your group presentations. And most of all no more nightly homework. Now you can cuddle up with yourself, your significant other, or maybe your favorite plush that you’ve had since the third grade […]
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I Like My Religion, Thank You Very Much
By Jordan Darling, Editor-in-Chief Let me set the scene. It’s a bright, sunny day and a girl is sitting alone at a table eating her lunch, WITH HEADPHONES IN, and an older gentleman sits down opposite her on the black wrought iron chair. She smiles politely and resumes eating her lunch never taking her headphones […]
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Leaving Private Prisons Behind: A Brief Saga
By Jordan Darling, Editor-in-Chief An Introduction to Private Prisons Private prisons have been in America since San Quentin opened in California in 1852. But their numbers swelled in the 1980s with the Reagan Administration’s “War on Drugs.” Critics of the private prison system focus their rebuke of the system on the inhumane way that private […]
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Make Life Great, Prepare For Death
By Iracema Navarro, Staff Writer The last thing most of us want to think about is what I spend 35 hours a week talking about: Death. Not to worry though, reading this will only take about three minutes. I talk about death because I work in an industry that, strangely enough, has life in its […]
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Power to the People: Professor Discusses Improving the Legal System
By Destiny Torres, Staff Writer The ugly reality of the criminal justice system in the United States is that America makes up 5 percent of the world’s population, but 25 percent of its prisoners, with a disproportionate number of them young males of color. How this country got to this point is what James Forman […]