When I was in high school, people always asked me why I wanted to leave so badly. They couldn’t understand why I would leave when I had everything I needed. To them, life was centered around our two...
Attendance policies are implemented at a young age to hold students accountable. Many of us have spent more than half our lives in grade school, being forced to attend every day or avoiding pesky absence...
Editor’s Note: The editorial board could not come to a consensus on the subject. Therefore, two editorials are running representing the split opinions of the staff.
Long live the Oxford comma
Gabriela...
One of my favorite filmmakers, Ingmar Bergman, once talked about the relationship between the artist and his audience in a 1967 interview. He told the story of a wood-carver in medieval China who was tasked...
From Carlos, the enthusiastic crustacean made salsa instructor, to Avery, a Mallard who's obsessed with rugby, Squishmallows emerged in 2017, as a Kellytoy product line of “loveable buddies,” but they...
LUPD exists to keep students safe and patrol for danger on campus, but many Loyola students are dissatisfied with the LUPD, myself included.
As we try to come back to normality after being in a pandemic...
At age 13, my body began to experience the first signs of puberty: body hair, acne, more pronounced hips, and of course, breast development.
I was seemingly one of the only people in my grade to show...
Growing up in a low-income, Latine household with two divorced parents who didn’t go to college was definitely not an easy experience.
To clarify, my parents didn’t choose not to go to college; it...
Only three months into 2022, nearly 250 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have begun making their way through U.S. state legislatures.
State-sanctioned homophobia and transphobia is an act of real, physical violence....
I was born in Ukraine in July 2001 by the name of Vira Bondar, and since October 2002, when my American parents flew across the world to Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine and adopted me, I have asked myself many questions:...
The 2022 Winter Olympic Games were mired in controversy before the opening ceremonies began. Rising COVID-19 cases threatened the Olympics, and China’s stance on human rights pertaining to its native...
America’s perception of Ukrainian refugees and internally displaced peoples is a product of the same racial bias as missing White girl syndrome, a tendency of the general public to focus on missing White...
