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In college, remember to trust your gut

By Kaitlyn Quinn | March 30

When I was a junior in high school, I figured out exactly what I was going to do for the rest of my life. I would attend Seton Hall University for its Speech Pathology 4+2 Program, graduate with three degrees in speech pathology, elementary and special education and English, and I would become a speech language pathologist. I would always have a job, I would save the self-esteem and speech of thousands of children, and I would write the next best-selling novel on the side.

Seton Hall needs to work on their security

By Robert Fallo | March 20

Safety should be a top priority, if not the highest priority for a college campus. With thousands of students in the area every day, the potential for disaster without the correct security is heightened.

It’s not too late to go into journalism

By Kevin Kopf | March 6

In the current age, it is easy to write off journalism, and subsequently related majors such as public relations, communications, and many more, as useless.

Taking charge starts at home, with us

By Staff Writer | February 27

The first step in bringing about change is through caring about things that don’t affect us directly.

On Valentine’s Day, learn to love yourself first

By Rhania Kamel | February 16

With Valentine’s Day being an unofficial American holiday, I understand that there’s this societal pressure to engage in romantic love and be part of a relationship that transcends the individual. For me, this day is an opportunity to reflect on myself and on the importance of learning to love myself first.

SuperBowl halftime show left much to be desired

By Thomas Schwartz | February 6

Within 72 hours, Maroon 5’s halftime show performance has accumulated over 700,000 dislikes on YouTube. The video has yet to reach 100,000 likes, thus positioning Super Bowl LIII’s halftime fumble into an infamous category of YouTube’s bin of trolled, despised content.

Now is the time to act on climate change, or else

By Nicholas Kerr | January 30

When I was born in 1999 in a small town just across the river from Philadelphia, it must’ve seemed to my family that I had a bright future ahead of me. I was being brought into a new millennium propelled by unprecedented economic growth, ever-advancing technology, and a new era of peace ushered in by the end of the Cold War. Americans, by and large, were closing out an era of rapid positive change, eager to see what the year 2000 and beyond would bring.

Student athletes need to care about their mental health

By Staff Writer | January 23

Students and college athletes are being offered more resources for mental health than they ever have before. The stigma around mental health is being broken down, slowly, every day. A question that still arises, however, is why it’s so hard for student-athletes to get the help they need.