Opinions

Dear Editors, The first time I wrote for Hill News was back in March 2004. It was an article on proposed cuts to the Higher Education Opportunity Program and the impact it would have on students on campus. I was encouraged…

The piano is an instrument. In German, it is called das Klavier. Very cool. The Sullivan Student Center piano is an instrument of controversy in our school environment as many believe it to be a distraction to those working. Others believe…

The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder, and the students are getting more and more burnt out. It's that time of the semester: Hell Week. "Hell Week" or "Dead Week" is common U.S. slang referring to the…

Imagine yourself lying in your dorm, scrolling through social media, hearing the faint noise of commotion from floormates in the hall. You think to yourself, "I should probably get up and do something. I have so much work to be doing," but…

Are You a Feminist? ....Perhaps "why" or "why not" is the real question everyone should be asking of themselves. It is understandable that identifying with a group or a movement is impossible if one does not know the history and…

The L.I.G.H.T. House is a theme house on campus dedicated to promoting a healthy lifestyle for individuals and the community. It is centered around the ideas of achieving balance and self-awareness through mindfulness; like yoga,…

Approximately 300 million turkeys are slaughtered annually for human consumption in the United States, despite the fact that such consumption is unnecessary for humans and absolutely horrifying for turkeys. Almost 50 million of those…

Differences between the colonizers and the colonized manifest in many ways in our world today. Across many types of discourse pertaining to this dynamic, the constant creation of dichotomies is extremely harmful as it simplifies and…