Opinion

Being an athlete is a challenge. It’s about far more than just blood, sweat, and tears. It’s become even more than every painful hour of practice in the middle. Basketball players run the courts and practice shooting techniques for hours while baseball players train their bodies to make stealing bases that much easier. Olympic athletes […]

Now more than ever, climate change and its effects are being discussed globally. As the climate change debate continues to go back a forth between politicians, many worldwide citizens are taking it amongst themselves to become educated on this controversial topic and make lifestyle changes. Whenever the causes of climate change are brought up, fossil […]

Being “Facebook official” is a new milestone for a lot of millennials. Some believe it’s necessary to declare to the virtual world that you are in a relationship with someone. However, it’s much more of a formality than necessity. It’s completely unnecessary for a healthy, mature relationship to display their relationship on Facebook. First of […]

It’s about 12:50 a.m. at the UWM Golda Meir Library. You’ve had a long day of class and live a significant distance from campus. You’ve been swamped with homework spend your evening at the library. However, your eyes starting to burn and your brain are turning to mush. You figure it’s a good time to […]

Relationships seem to follow a specific timeline that society has created. One month; things are fairly new and you shouldn’t get your hopes up. Two months; several dates have happened, and the two of you are still getting to know one another. Three months; it becomes safe to assume that the two of you are […]

Jelena is back, but hopefully not for long! After their split in 2012, Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber are photographed locking lips at Bieber’s hockey game. No just no! Selena, what are you thinking?! Selena, who recently split with The Weekend, underwent a kidney transplant for her Lupus. She revealed the diagnosed during a Billboard […]

Rest in peace all the beautiful men of Hollywood. Okay, they’re not actually dead but according to People Magazine they must be since they just named Blake Shelton 2017s “Sexiest Man Alive” and I’m not the only one upset. Every year, People Magazine gives one man the title of “Sexiest Man Alive.” This year, in […]

On Thursday, November 16, there was a break in the Keystone oil pipeline about 3 miles southeast of Amherst, South Dakota. The pipeline is owned and operated by TransCanada, which said, “(the leak) was completely isolated within 15 minutes and emergency response procedures were activated.” TransCanada reported that approximately 5,000 barrels of oil was lost […]

With Showtime hit show Shameless starting Emmy Rossum and William H Macy coming back from hiatus with its eighth season, fans online have more than just a piece of their mind to say to actors about storylines come and gone versus the new Frank Gallagher and his meth hub. But being regular viewers of shameless, […]

After a two-month national postal survey, celebration broke out across Australia when the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced that an overwhelming 61.6 percentage of voters agree that the law should be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry. The majority is an indication that the law should be changed, but the debate is far from […]

The House of Representatives passed a Republican tax reform bill, called the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, this morning. The vote was essentially along party lines with zero Democrats voting for the bill but also 13 Republicans joining them, according to CBS News. In a Quinnipiac University Poll released recently, only 25 percent of American […]

A recent attack that left eight people dead and a dozen injured in Manhattan has raised concerns about the Diversity Visa Immigrant Program, otherwise known as the “visa lottery,” and has President Donald Trump calling for its elimination. Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov, an Uzbek national who entered the US through the program, rented a pickup truck […]