Illini were tested like never before this academic year. COVID-19 propelled students and faculty into strenuous semesters marked by Zoom fatigue, constant testing — COVID-19 and class-wise — and atypical...
This year’s finals could not arrive at a more distressing moment. Whether it be the pandemic lingering, colossal Zoom fatigue setting in from one year of online education or the “Mental Health” days...
Standardized testing is archaic. If there has been any coherent lesson from the tumultuous pandemic, it has been the revelation that the American College Testing and Scholastic Aptitude Test are wolves...
Journalism is: late nights scrambling to write articles with tight deadlines, and it’s all worth it.
Journalism is: early mornings filled with meetings and copious amounts of bitter coffee, and...
Employment cuts. Revenue losses. Readership decreases. Trust declines. This isn’t news; newspapers across the country are dying.
At the frontline of this, what seems like a battle, are local media...
Our student newsrooms require unbridled attention and assistance. As the local source for news, culture, opinions and sports, student newspapers are the adjacent avenues for information across universities...
By Chieh Hsu, Managing Editor for Online
• April 25, 2021
Just as hatchlings need the warmth of their nests before they realize their ability to fly, journalists find their gift of writing in the warmth of student journalism.
Coming from Taiwan without knowing...
Lockdown revealed that nature — when given the opportunity — will swiftly restore itself. Whether it was dolphins reappearing in the freshened waters of the Hudson River or whales flourishing off the...
America is addicted to its guns. Besides leading the world in gun-related killings, the U.S. also dangerously shepherds the world with immense gun ownership.
This debilitating fascination, judicially...
As fall approaches, and the COVID-19 pandemic slowly but bitterly recedes, the University’s general silence on the 2021-2022 academic year becomes deafening.
Despite a recent update from leadership...
America’s prolonged political conversation alarmingly excludes local government. As local election season launches, all must recognize the immediate efficiency local government provides for their constituencies.
Unlike...
Long perpetuated, yet seldom discussed, America’s bitter treatment of Asian Americans is tragically not a contemporary phenomenon.
With Asian hate crimes rising, this American deficiency has only now...
