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Your Reusable Water Bottle Isnt Doing Anything

Your Reusable Water Bottle Isn’t Doing Anything

Ciara Sanders, Staff Writer September 15, 2023

Unpopular opinion: Your reusable water bottle isn’t doing anything for the planet — but it’s not your fault.  Glass straws, Hydro Flasks, bamboo toothbrushes and reusable silverware — what...

Enjoy Your Time Up the Hill: A Message to Underclassmen

Enjoy Your Time Up the Hill: A Message to Underclassmen

Zach Greenberg, Contributing Writer September 8, 2023

Many first-year and sophomore students are frustrated with the distance and time it takes to walk to the parking lot. During the long winter months at Colgate University, this trek can be pretty painful....

Winter is the Best Season in Hamilton

Winter is the Best Season in Hamilton

Abby Harn, Staff Writer April 21, 2023

The academic quad is littered with students who have already been burnt to a crisp. Vibrant yellow flowers have magically sprung up across campus. Birds can be heard chirping in the still-barren trees....

LinkedIn is the New Facebook

LinkedIn is the New Facebook

Chapin Rockwell, Contributing Writer April 7, 2023

I'm ready to speak my truth:  I like LinkedIn. Actually, I love LinkedIn.  It might just be a symptom of summer internship season, but it appears as though the platform is emerging as the new Facebook,...

Not Letting Political Correctness in America Stop Important Conversations

Not Letting Political Correctness in America Stop Important Conversations

Richie Rosen, Staff Writer March 31, 2023

The issue of political correctness has held a vice-like grip on American society for the past decade. Everyone and their mother has heard someone say about a million times how political correctness has...

ChatGPT Is NOT the Enemy

ChatGPT Is NOT the Enemy

Abby Harn, Staff Writer February 24, 2023

What if I told you there was free software that could write your research papers, solve your calculus problems, debug your computer science code and give you relationship advice? Believe it or not,...

I Love Valentines Day Because of What Its Overcome

I Love Valentine’s Day Because of What It’s Overcome

LJ Coady , Contributing Writer February 10, 2023

  Why does everyone hate celebrating love? Valentine’s Day was awesome in elementary school, full of class parties and sparkly cards and candy-induced sugar comas. Now, a decade later, it...

Deference to the Small Town Life

Richie Rosen, Staff Writer December 9, 2022

It was pretty strange over Thanksgiving break to go from the dreariness of Hamilton to the breakneck pace of Los Angeles after not being home for three months. And I don't think I'm alone in feeling this...

Unpopular Opinion: In Defense of Frank’s Dry Chicken

Unpopular Opinion: In Defense of Frank’s Dry Chicken

LJ Coady, Staff Writer October 28, 2022

Nothing is more maligned, abused, mocked and abhorred on this campus than the grilled chicken breast regularly served at Frank Dining Hall. The unassuming slices of plain white meat are constantly attacked...

Unpopular Opinion: Our Latino Families Are Pretty Racist

Josephine DeBono, Contributing Writer October 7, 2022

I am 14 years old, having tea in my Tia Olga's house; gossip in our family is nothing short of religious, so when the conversation turns to one of my cousin's newest girlfriends, I am acutely tuned in....

Unpopular Opinion: The Case For Cardio

Unpopular Opinion: The Case For Cardio

Richie Rosen, Contributing Writer September 23, 2022

It’s a sad reality that the word ‘cardio’ has garnered such a negative reputation in the fitness community these days. People either seem to neglect it entirely, out of a sense of extreme spite,...

Unpopular Opinion: Fiction and Nonfiction Are Equally Important

Kyle Mayers, Contributing Writer September 16, 2022

Your literature collection should be full of fiction and nonfiction, not one or the other. For a lot of people, reading has always been a bore. Throughout primary and secondary school, we’re taught...

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