The Unsatisfying Pleasure of Media

-Samuel Mettler In the current digital age, we see it everyday: texting and driving is a dangerous stunt to pull off, yet 20 percent or more of the population does it often. Another study suggests that half of people are distracted by their cell phones, even though 98 percent know that it’s dangerous. Texting while …

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February to the Future

-Grace Klassen This past February, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez proposed a plan to help end what she calls, “one of the biggest existential threats to our way of life”: climate change (Cortez February 7, 2019). She proposed The Green New Deal. Cortez calls this deal a “comprehensive agenda of economic social and racial justice” (Cortez February …

A Journey to the New Life Center

- Rachel Borgert The New Life Center is a place where people who are homeless and hurting go from merely surviving to truly thriving. The New Life Center is a nonprofit, Christian organization that serves men experiencing homelessness, helping them to go from being homeless to getting a job and having their own place. For …

Getting in the Fast Lane

-Amy Speiser Fasting is a concept that is very familiar to practicing Catholics especially during the liturgical season of Lent.  Catholics are called to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday as well as all the Fridays during Lent. One of the reasons, perhaps the most common, of why we fast is because …

Blocking Pornography? – A Response to Arizona House Bill 2444

Written Amy Speiser Recently, an excerpt in the NDSU Spectrum pointed out an article in the Huffington Post that directed attention to the proposed Arizona House Bill 2444 that would place blocking software in electronics, prohibiting the user to access pornographic content.  After reading this excerpt, the original article was easy to find with a …

The Researching Student

North Dakota State is known as a student-focused, land-grant, research university. Many professors do research most of the day and "take a break" to teach the students. Although, professors aren't the only ones who do research. I recently conducted some brief research and compiled a 15-page paper on the processes of conversion and "deconverting" from …

Preparing for Finals

“You shall not pass.” Students from North Dakota State University may think their professors are attempting to create the hardest cumulative final exam in recorded history. In reality, their job is to help students retain information throughout the year and some may think the best way is to assign a stress-inducing test. I know the …