Opinion
Simple Tips for Better Zoom Teaching
Welcome to the second week of classes! Coming up on a year of remote learning,
students and professors alike are still adapting to Zoom and the online school
format, with a truly staggering number of different strategies. I’ve compiled a
loose list of Zoom teaching tips for professors from
Symposium: The Thought-Terminating Cliché
Antifa.
Antifa, antifa, antifa.
There’s a phenomenon in psychology called “semantic satiation
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation].” It happens when you say a
word over and over again so many times that, to you, it starts to lose all
meaning and becomes a series of almost nonsensical
Conservative Free Speech and the Lie of Campus Cancel Culture
As colleges across the country finally reckon with race and social justice,
conservatives are feeling left out. They decry
[https://www.npr.org/2021/02/10/965815679/is-cancel-culture-the-future-of-the-gop]
“campus cancel culture,” a culture that, they claim, dismisses their ideas and
treats them with open and virulent hostility. To combat this
Seeing Double: We Aren't Special
You, the beautiful and kind person reading this column, are one of a kind.
Nobody in the world is quite like you. Even the person most similar to you,
wherever they may be, has had different experiences, holds different opinions,
and is, quite simply, different. But while you are certainly
Enduring Pandemic Fatigue
As online classes resume this week, it is extremely crucial for the college
community to recognize that beyond exciting optimism, a return to campus also
comes with tremendous levels of responsibility.
The college showed the strength of its pandemic planning last fall, keeping
on-campus Covid-19 cases mostly in check with
The Cost of Corporate Crunch
A year in the gaming press isn’t complete without at least one horrifying tale
of terrible labor practices. In 2020, it came from the formerly beloved
developers at CD Projekt Red, a Polish video game studio, which recently
unveiled Cyberpunk 2077. The main story around Cyberpunk 2077’s release