On Jan. 3, President Trump ordered a drone strike near the Baghdad airport, killing Major General Qasem Soleimani, Iran’s most powerful military commander and leader of special-operations forces abroad....
In recent years, there have been various controversies regarding English curricula in high schools across the US. Some schools have debated dropping To Kill a Mockingbird for its glorification of the “white...
Like any other busy Monday, I was absentmindedly walking through the third-floor lounge area last week, barely noticing the people gathered on the sofas around me when a large, rowdy circle of male students...
“OK, boomer.” Used as a remark by millennials and Generation Z in the United States to counter the condescending comments made by baby boomers to younger generations, this new phrase marks this period...
As seniors wade through the thick of college apps season, and classes are now multiplying in workload, discourse surrounding “the SIS student” is resurfacing. The SIS student, according to commonly...
Every year on Oct. 3, South Korea bursts into vibrant parades, festivals, and fireworks, unified with a boundless sense of patriotism for National Foundation Day. Known as Gaecheonjeol, which translates...
New coaches, teachers, and facility renovations. Fluctuating Japan-Korea relations. More of Trump’s racist rhetoric.
When put in such bite-sized statement forms, current events read like distant...
It is an oral history. History has shown that tension from racist rhetoric has been growing for many years, and President Donald Trump’s language has only exacerbated an existing danger. Not many people...
In light of the timeless struggle to even the playing field for college applications, the College Board announced the use of an Environmental Context Dashboard (ECD) in May that would accompany a student’s...
I’ve always found the posters with messages along the lines of “mental illness is not incompetence” plastered around school ironic. The systems we have in place seemed to merely cry out for awareness...
As Neil Postman mentioned in The End of Education, “for school to make sense, the young must have a god to serve. If they have none, school is pointless...he who has a why to live can bear with almost...
Spring in Korea is a time marked by the steady blooming of cherry blossoms: signaling both the end of winter blues and the beginning of a new chapter of life. Endowed with a sense of renewal and commencement,...
