Opinions

Creating a climate of engagement and empowerment

Creating an engaged campus climate counters feelings of apathy with intellectual curiosity.

Letter to the Editor: Your vote. Your voice. Your role in shaping the future.

Vote for the big races, and vote for the small races — every election will impact the communities we live in.

The Green Party are grifters

Instead of recruiting and running on a local level, where elections can be won, they insist on only aiming for the biggest prize every time.

The children will not save us

The debate was no more well attended than last year, and no more inspiring.

As a Rochesterian — I’m pissed, and I’m voting for a Republican

For this year's race in New York’s 25th Congressional District, Joe Morelle (D) has got to go. Gregg Sadwick (R) needs to be our next representative.

Putting through the patriarchy: The golf club bias exposed

And while some may argue that there’s no harm in women taking up the sport in an attempt to “keep up with the guys,” the very fact that such expectations even exist speaks volumes about the barriers we’re still expected to navigate.

The impact of campus activism that falls into misinformation: A Syrian’s perspective

When campus activists speak of Israel’s “senseless violence” or “systematic erasure,” they fail to recognize that Hezbollah itself has been a major contributor to this cycle of destruction.

You shouldn’t need a network to get work

As I wiggle my way into society, it seems like every opportunity depends on who you know, rather than what you know.

Blindspots: Dick Cheney is still a war criminal

The Iraq war was a mistake, which killed almost a million people, and the people who zealously ginned the U.S. into that conflict should be made into pariahs, not platformed and commended by presidential contenders.

The Vance Walz debate was … refreshing?

While it definitely is not the end-all be-all to our current political climate, it showed a generation of young people what politics used to be like before the era of Donald Trump