Social protest and change at the Oscars
ERINÂ BAKER
Guest Writer
bakeree@plu.edu
On Feb. 28, the one and only Leonardo DiCaprio snatched a prestigious Oscar Statuette. For many people, including myself, this event was a long time coming.
I heard about...
Progressive or petrifying?
RACHELÂ DIXON
Opinion Writer
dixonrp@plu.edu
The debate over transgender people’s rights to use the bathrooms of the gender that they identify with is an old one. Yet on February 15, 2016, there was...
Doesn’t Get Better than This
CARLYÂ STAUFFER
Opinion Writer
stauffce@plu.edu
I recently read an opinion editorial by Leif Wenar in the New York Times entitled “Is Humanity Getting Better?” The article took me on a stroll through the...
Need for change:
ANNIKENÂ GROENENG
Guest Writer
gronenaa@plu.edu
Ag-gag laws first saw the light in the 1990s when state legislators made it a crime to take pictures or shoot videos in farms and slaughterhouses without the...
Warning Satire at play: TEDxTacoma
JULIAÂ GROSVENOR
Satirist
grosvejm@plu.edu
TEDxTacoma is coming to the Karen Hille Phillips Center at Pacific Lutheran University on Friday, April 22 from 7-9 p.m.. The topic for 2016 will be “Healthy Future,” and...
FBI vs. Apple showdown
HELENÂ SMITH
Opinion Writer
smithhe@plu.edu
The big news in the tech industry this week has to do with Apple once again. However, it’s not the iPhone 7 that’s making waves, unfortunately. The FBI...
PLU hosts the ‘Grammys’
JULIA GROSVENOR
Satirist
grosvejm@plu.edu
It is a little known fact that long before the Grammy Awards became televised in the 1950s, Pacific Lutheran University created an award of the same name, in...
Hillary the Hypocrite
CARLYÂ STAUFFER
Opinion Writer
stauffce@plu.edu
While Bernie Sanders is threatening to take the lead against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Clinton still has a chance to become the 45th President of the United...
Cold stance on Coldplay
RACHELÂ DIXON
Opinion Writer
dixonrp@plu.edu
On January 29 of this year, the British band Coldplay released its controversial video for its pop hit “Hymn for the Weekend.”
In the weeks since its release, the...