OPINIONS
How Rock Band revolutionized my reading week experience
Sidney Ofiara
November 23, 2021
I fundamentally believe that Rock Band is the single greatest bonding experience. Not convinced? I have a case study. My friend invited me up to her farm with a bunch of her friends for reading week. I was elated and prepared to have a fire week. However, I didn’t know ...
Election reflection
Jonathan Katz
October 13, 2021
For the fifteenth year in a row, global freedom declined in 2020, according to the American non-profit organization Freedom House. This democratic downturn was hastened by the COVID-19 pandemic, as autocrats ranging from Hungary’s Orbán Viktor to Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed abused their emergency powers to consolidate control over their countries. ...
Remembering Norm Macdonald, a relentless original
Joseph Strauss
October 13, 2021
Norm Macdonald’s death this past September came out of nowhere. The 61-year-old comic, known for his time on Saturday Night Live in the 1990s, had been diagnosed with cancer nine years ago. Keeping the diagnosis under wraps made the announcement of his death all the more shocking––it was also an ...
The “underground man” in pandemic times
Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega
October 13, 2021
At the start of the pandemic, we saw the appearance of a peculiar type of character who has become symbolic of the political division and the misinformation of our time. This emergence has made some of our family gatherings awkward and unfortunate events. Many of us have had to block ...
Bookstore budget battles
Adriana Goraieb
September 28, 2021
Unpacking the exorbitant textbook prices that haunt my parents’ pockets
Not my coming-of-age movie
Abi Akinlade
September 28, 2021
Standing at the crossroads between film and race
Summer reflections
Mathula Muhundan
September 28, 2021
How a seemingly uneventful summer revealed new things about myself, and how it will change the course of my academic career
Why are we still building pipelines?
Maia Roberts
September 14, 2021
Visions of decolonization in an extractive world
Pop-ups and what-nots
Cory Benson
September 14, 2021
The fashion industry’s latest trend isn’t an article of clothing
A vaccinated education
Emma Paidra
September 14, 2021
On the tumult and triumphs of mandatory vaccinations at UofT