How did we Get Here?: Gun Violence in America
By Niara Hancock It has been 108 days since the year 2023 started, and many things happened during that time. The Chiefs won the Super Bowl, Everything Everywhere All at Once won seven awards, sweeping…
Fashion Trends Throughout the Years
By Niara Hancock For about the past two years or so, there has been a new form of comedy on social media, sprouting itself to become a new form of memes . We now see…
Interview with Duke de Ben Jules
By Naaemah Trader Duke de Ben Jules was born and raised in Haiti before coming to America at the age of 12. Mr. Jules has been a close friend of mine for about a year…
One Person’s Experience of the Pandemic’s Mental Toll
By Kaliah Darby COVID-19 has been an unexpected moment that has impacted the world in numerous ways. Our lifestyles have been altered greatly, we had to change the way we used to live now in…
What Is Intelligent?
By Dante Clark What is intelligence? According to Google dictionary, the definition of intelligence is “the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills.” According to the Oxford Dictionaries, however, other definitions of intelligence that…
Instagram Competes for Your Attention by Adapting — and Copying
By Marina Favacchia Since the birth of the Internet, people have been competing relentlessly to create a popular social media platform that can attract people all across the world. There have been many successful contenders,…
How SoundCloud Profits From Attention
By Sammi-Jo Wall In the digital age there are a plethora of platforms that host music and other audio content. What platforms are popular, though, has shifted over time. In 2009, SoundCloud overtook MySpace as the dominant…
The Importance of Shutting Down Schools by Marina Favacchia
August and September are when students across America prepare to go back to school. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 back to school time has looked different this year. Many schools have attempted one of two options:…
Intern Diaries
October 2016 This issue’s diary entrant is: Courteney Glennan ’17 Human Services Where are you interning? I am interning with The United States Marshals Service in the Eastern Pennsylvania district. What is your role at…
Dia de los Muertos Comes to Campus
By Miranda Ali ’18 Don’t fear death; celebrate it. That’s the theme of Dia de los Muertos celebrations which the Office of Global Education Office brought to campus on Nov. 1. There is a common…
Trump Set To Make American Great Again
By Richard Cotto ’19 Republican Donald J. Trump shocked the entire world on Nov. 8 by winning the 2016 presidential election, beating out the Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton with 62 more electoral votes. President-Elect Trump…
Philadelphia Council Denounces Chestnut Hill College
Philadelphia City Council adopted a resolution Oct. 13 condemning Chestnut Hill College for its appeal to the Commonwealth Court of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission’s finding of racial discrimination involving a former student, and urging…