On the night of Jan. 18, the United States banned the social media app TikTok. At 10:30 that night, although clocks continued to tick and tock, the hearts of Generation Z shattered. Their hearts skipped,...
After a critical mass of Americans re-elected a convicted felon as president, I’m not sure what I had been expecting for Inauguration Day. Executive orders designed to horrify one’s conscience and...
On Jan. 1, an individual drove a pickup truck into a crowd of people on the historic Bourbon Street, killing 14 people and injuring dozens. Federal authorities later declared this atrocity a planned terrorist...
Beginning in early January, destructive wildfires damaged several California regions. Firefighters have been working to control the chaos, as the wildfires have destroyed communities and affected the lives...
As another semester of classes begins, students are met with a restriction of their freedom: professors' policies against taking notes on laptops or tablets. These blanket edicts treat all students as...
On the first day of the new year, our city was shaken by tragedy. This horrific act of violence, intended to threaten our sense of community and safety, resulted in the deaths of over a dozen people and...
The advent of generative artificial intelligence has fundamentally changed our relationship with the media we consume. Trained on repositories of digital media without the knowledge or consent of its creators,...
Jonah Young, Contributing Writer
• December 4, 2024
In 2024, high school and college students have the ability to churn out writing assignments in seconds. Students can turn in essays and projects written by clicking a few buttons. As artificial intelligence...
As a native New Orleanian, Tulane University was always my top choice due to its outstanding reputation and proximity. As a Black woman from New Orleans, I have been exposed to many different ethnic communities,...
After the Oct. 7 attack on Israel perpetrated by Hamas, protests and incidents of hate occurred on college campuses nationally. Antisemitism on campus sharply increased. University figures were rightly...
Political debates became a Thanksgiving tradition after the election of President-elect Donald Trump in 2016, though they were practiced before then — during the Civil War, the 1960s and almost every...
In today’s hyper-polarized America, people have forgotten how to engage in civil discourse. The inescapable partisan social media bubbles only add fuel to the fire, allowing for the demonization of those...
