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Opinion | Intimacy is not reserved for romantic relationships

By Julianna Steach, Staff Columnist • November 8, 2024

Chances are, during college, you’re going to crash out over nothing and live in a cycle of questioning everything — from box-dyeing your hair to completely changing your career path. The beautiful part of this absolute mess is your friends are going through the same thing, so let them in.

Opinion | Long-distance friendships are possible

By Livia LaMarca, Assistant Opinions Editor • June 6, 2024

With all the advice swimming around the internet geared towards long-distance relationships, what do you do when phone sex and dirty talk aren’t a fulfilling way to keep your bestie around?

Opinion | Your first-year roommate is one of the most important people you will ever know, both good and bad

By Grace Harris, Staff Columnist • April 9, 2024

First-year roommates, both good and bad, are some of the most important people we will meet in our lifetimes. I am lucky to say that my roommate has become one of my best friends, and I probably would not be in the place I am today if it weren't for her.

Opinion | It is important to prioritize mental health, not stigmatize it

By Irene Moran, Staff Columnist • October 27, 2023

If you do not already focus enough on your mental health, or mental health in general, you should start now. Rather than stigmatizing mental health, people should prioritize it.

Opinion | Girl best friends are a green flag

By Delaney Rauscher Adams, Staff Columnist • October 12, 2023

Even after making significant strides in eliminating gender norms and creating a more inclusive society, many people cling to heteronormative notions about friendships. In trendy online discourse about...

Opinion | It’s time to return to 19th century friendship practices

By Anna Fischer, Senior Staff Columnist • September 10, 2023

We need to return to foundational human interactions without technology to strengthen and maintain friendships

Opinion | Why people who say college “was the best four years of my life” may be right

By Ebonee Rice-Nguyen, Senior Staff Columnist • June 27, 2023

In college, the list of people you know stretches indefinitely — roommates, their partners, classmates, coworkers— it’s a massive web. But as we get older, that web often condenses until it eventually dwindles into your own remote family. While it’s easy to pass this phenomenon off as “becoming an adult” and “getting older,” these statements ignore the fact that we have structurally ensured that loneliness is an outcome of our lives.

‘Meeting through eating’: New student-launched web app builds connections through food

By Jamie Sheppard, Staff Writer • February 3, 2023

“Potluck” is rebranding to “Greatings,” and the organization is launching a new website in March. Founded by students Avi Moses, Joe Slomowitz and Oliver Yao, users can join or create groups on the platform to meet up in person at a local eatery or brewery and socialize with new people.

Opinion | A love letter to the excluded

By Sarah Liez, Senior Staff Columnist • November 2, 2022

Some empathy and advice to those put down and excluded by others.

Opinion | Either ghost or be haunted

By Anita Bengert, Staff Columnist • January 23, 2022

At one point or another, a person has to decide how they will separate themselves from an unhealthy relationship. Although it might seem drastic at the surface level, ghosting may be the only viable option as a bittersweet ending to a relationship.