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(10/17/23 5:42pm)
Natalie Fitzgibbons: Fall festivities like pumpkin patches and apple orchards can be better than summer activities of going to the beach or water park. There’s something more peaceful and nostalgic about it. I think it’s because you can always go to a warmer climate for beach and water parks, but it has to be fall for pumpkin patches and apple orchards.
(10/10/23 8:33pm)
Isabella Vesperini: We should invest more in fun socks. Wearing socks with cool designs is cool and trendy. I have a whole collection of socks: one pair has penguins fishing, another pair has pastel-colored dinosaurs. I recently got a pair for Halloween with skeleton dinosaurs trick-or-treating. Wearing socks with creative designs makes me happy and feel better overall. I also just love looking at all the socks and planning when I'll wear each pair.
(10/03/23 4:48pm)
Jack Davis: Going to the movie theater is so much better than watching a movie on a streaming service. There is something about the environment of watching a movie with people that cannot be replicated while streaming it. For example, when you watch a horror movie, you get scared together or when you watch a Marvel movie, you get excited together. It is just a fun experience. If given the chance to watch at home or in a theater, I will choose theater every time.
(09/26/23 5:58pm)
Isabella Vesperini: Football infuriates me. I really don’t get the point of the sport; it’s essentially a bunch of men who attack each other and get a break every five seconds doing so. It's boring, hard to follow and inconsistent. I just don’t understand why the sport exists. There is no need for all the pomp and circumstance.
(09/19/23 5:08pm)
Natalie Fitzgibbons: Nothing can beat the feeling of driving with a car full of your friends, with the windows down, music blasting and everyone singing along to the songs.
(09/12/23 2:18pm)
Isabella Vesperini: Will Ferrell is a bad actor, period. He annoys me and doesn’t fit any role I’ve seen him in. He ruined “Elf” for me and was also bad in “Barbie.” Literally any other actor could’ve filled his shoes in both those movies, but for some reason they picked him.
(09/05/23 5:03pm)
Leila Faraday: Making and playing with slime is such an underrated way to destress. It is not just for kids and lives long past the 2016 Instagram trends.
(08/29/23 5:19pm)
Natalie Fitzgibbons: Wearing dresses and skirts all the time should be normalized. I enjoy wearing dresses and wore them the first week of my classes, and so many people had a look of amazement or assumed I was going on a date. I’m just a girly girl and being a girly girl should be embraced. Just because everyone else is wearing shorts or jeans, don’t feel pressure to do the same – wear your dresses and skirts and rock them.
(08/02/23 9:00pm)
Danny William: Air conditioning is one of the best things the United States has to offer, but man does it get annoying sometimes. Does every business need to keep their store at 60 degrees in the summertime? They’d save so much money by just turning it down a bit. Consider this a cold take, because I’m freezing out here.
(07/20/23 9:36pm)
Danny William: Can Tom Cruise really save cinema? Probably not. But I will gladly watch him jump out of planes and shatter all the bones in his feet for six more movies, please.
(07/11/23 10:13pm)
Danny William: As much as I love the institution of television, it’s completely overwhelming for me. Either I watch a beloved older show which consists of seven seasons of 22 episodes which could be removed from streaming at any moment, or I watch something new and have no clue when or where it will end after five years of watching. It’s a hard life out here.
(06/29/23 6:26pm)
Isabella Vesperini: Taylor Swift is overrated. To be clear, I fully respect her as a person and do like some of her music. Though for the most part, I think people hype her up way too much. Most of her music is mediocre and not that catchy; people give her too much credit. There are so many other artists out there who deserve some love and attention for the hard work they do, such as OSKAR O. and Bebe Rexha.
(06/23/23 3:45pm)
Danny William: Actors really shouldn’t have to gain or lose insane amounts of weight for roles. It’s incredibly detrimental to their bodies. Imagine going through hell to gain 60 pounds for a role and then having the movie flop. I would honestly quit. Crazy suggestion – what if directors just hired people who look like their desired body type in the first place?
(06/15/23 3:20pm)
Danny William: Cable television kind of rocks. The writers have to come up with the most deranged plotlines to keep their elderly viewer base entertained, which means a lot of fun for us young people. I sometimes watch this ABC show “Big Sky” with my mom, which makes me laugh so hard. It inexplicably stars Reba McEntire and “Supernatural’s” Jensen Ackles, playing basically Dean Winchester again. And, of course, who can forget about “The Good Doctor.” Shout-out to Dr. Han.
(06/07/23 5:45pm)
Isabella Vesperini: Starbucks is overrated. Not to mention expensive. The drinks are so basic and not great quality. The coffee is inconsistent and it’s always unnecessarily packed. Depending on which location you go to the drinks taste different. There’s nothing special or unique about Starbucks either; it’s your plain American go-to coffee shop. Its only redeeming quality are the cookies.
(06/01/23 5:13pm)
Danny William: I am not a soup fan. Food should be solid! Why is it “normal” to eat liquid for dinner?
(05/25/23 10:10pm)
Danny William: I see a lot of anti-tomato sentiment from my generation, but I think that’s misguided. If you don’t like the big slabs of red tomato that often show up on sandwiches – and I can’t blame you, I don’t like those either – try out some baby tomatoes you can eat in one bite. And grow some yourself! There’s nothing sweeter than picking a sunsugar or cherry tomato off the plant on a hot day and chowing down.
(05/16/23 8:13pm)
Danny William: Just stop using artificial intelligence programs to write your essays. It’ll probably give you fake references and completely recognizable AI-speak. Also, you’re paying for your degree. Get your money’s worth and just write that stupid essay, even if it’s painful.
(05/02/23 10:07pm)
Editor-in-Chief, Helen Rummel: PBS Kids is better than any other kids’ channel. Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network? None of them rival PBS Kids. I may not understand my friends’ jokes, but I will forever have the memory of watching “Cyberchase” after school. Managing Editor and Princess, Ellie Albin: As someone who goes to many social events every week and genuinely enjoys partaking in them, I feel like I’ve earned the right to say this: leaving early is one of the most freeing power moves on the planet. Just the other day, I was at an event taking place inside one of IU’s classroom buildings, but the setting sun and warm breeze beckoned me outside. So, I went! I bought myself a venti Pink Drink from Starbucks and took in the sights, smells and sounds of spring. Managing Editor, Salomé Cloteaux: A lot of nerds are going to be mad at me, but in the infamous Oxford Comma Debate, I will argue against it. Most people are ardent supporters of the – I will admit – technically grammatically correct comma placed after the penultimate item in a list. I know I am in the minority, even among journalists who are forced to omit Oxford commas because AP Style does not use it unless it’s imperative for clarity. The rare opponents of the Oxford comma argue that it is often unnecessary, pointless and excessive (note the absence of the abominable punctuation mark). In most cases, readers will have enough common sense not to be confused by a list without the comma. So why not just make an informed and intentional decision to use it only when it is necessary? Although, for the sake of honesty, I must admit that the true motivation behind my controversial opinion is simply that I find it amusing to get people riled up about grammar.
(04/25/23 5:41pm)
Special guest star, managing editor Ellie Albin: Reading children’s books is an enjoyable activity at any age. I still love to flip through them, and, as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized I actually pay much better attention to the illustrations and the work that must go into them. Plus, I gotta be honest — I love a good, simple rhyme. I don’t really care if it’s about counting or shapes or colors or stuff that’s aimed at kids. Good writing is good writing. Plus, when you read out loud to a group of kids and they really engage with the process? Nothing like it.