Opinions >> May 08
by Colleen Purcell (Guest Writer)
The world is currently witnessing the biggest crisis of our time. It’s not rising tides, nor war; it’s food scarcity. In Egypt they call bread “aish,” which is Arabic for “living.” Aish is what’s at stake; the right to food and the right to life.
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by Elan Merry
“So what language are you going to take?” is a commonly asked question among upcoming high school students. However, why should we have to take a language in the first place?
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by Judith Sijstermans
Sweden ranks first in the world for treatment of mothers and women, eighth for gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and it is also the least religious country in the world, as found in a recent Pitzer College survey. And despite the fact that one in eleven Americans identify themselves as agnostic, atheistic or having no faith, a 2006 survey in American Sociological review showed that atheists are the most distrusted minority and that this opinion is linked to perceived “moral indiscretions.”
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by Louis Kao
As the pump clicked after transferring the full fourteen gallons of 91-octane premium fuel into my car, I glanced up at the price gauge – $66.55. My car's most expensive refill, ever. I thought of the other things I could buy with $66.55. Two hundred giant Pocky sticks. Six and a half copies of StarCraft. Fifteen pairs of PUMA socks. Instead, I spent it on a week's worth of petrol.
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by Katherine Raichlen and Sunita Sridhar
By May of their senior year, most seniors are vacillating between two wildly different emotions – wanting to go away from Mountain View as quickly as possible and finding it difficult to contemplate leaving behind the place they’ve spent the last four years of their lives.
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by Nikki Yadegar
As teenagers, it’s hard to see outside of our world; with homework, tests, SAT’s, college applications, it’s almost impossible keep ourselves sane, let alone put what’s going on in the rest of the world in perspective. This is especially true as we live in a very insulated, safe environment, and find it difficult to make connections from the outside to our world.
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