The United Nations is in hot water again. Several Haitians have hit the U.N. with lawsuits over a four-year cholera epidemic that studies have traced to Nepalese peacekeepers at a U.N. camp. This epidemic has killed 8,500 and sickened at least 700,000, according to the mission in Haiti. This is not the...
Written by Michael Chen
Before the iPhone, the concept of a touch-screen phone was alien. In fact, a lot of the technology that came with the first iPhone seemed like fantasy before it was put into use. The iPhone and its sequels have brought revolution after revolution to the smartphone world. Since...
Written by Kathleen Xue
As colleges become increasingly more difficult to get into and prices for education continue to inflate, there is an increasing trend of today’s high school students choosing their universities with misconception and misguidance. What were known as the beginnings of American...
Written by Naina Murthy
Tensions reached a boiling point on Aug. 9 in St. Louis suburb Ferguson, MO, when Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer named Darren Wilson. The police said that Michael Brown was shot while fighting for the officer’s gun....
Written by Elinor Aspegren
Ebola is an infectious disease marked by fever and severe internal bleeding that is currently spreading through West Africa. There, the death toll continues to accelerate, with 3,069 reported cases and 1,552 deaths since 2014.
A recent survey conducted by the Harvard...
Written by Esther Kozakevich
This year, as I opened up my Infinite Campus at precisely 8 p.m., I would be lying if I said I wasn’t panicking. I couldn’t help but feel that if I was stuck with a bad schedule for senior year, there would be little I could do to change it. I’m not the only student...
Written by Emily Kvitko
Trends come and go and things change, and Gunn has been no exception to this rule. However, not all change has been for the better, especially when it comes to Gunn’s academic environment. Over the past 50 years, academic peer pressure, stress and anxiety have all increased....
Written by Noa Livneh
It’s always hard to face the truth, but in the case of college, it’s even harder. It takes a while to come to terms with this but unfortunately, it’s the reality whether students like it or not: prestigious universities are worth the hype. Students often say that Ivy...
Written by Lawrence Chen
Today’s world is dominated by social media. While it can be useful, it should not be exploited for certain types of activism. In fact, it can negatively impact the organizations implementing such social media promotion. These programs ultimately suffer from “slacktivism,”...
In an attempt to help expand their kids’ educational experience, parents more often than not sign up for their kids to attend expensive camps over the summer. In these camp brochures, the managers will always hype up the type of “comprehensive academic activities” that attendees will be involved...
The school year is coming to an end, and I’m watching the seniors—some of whom I’ve known for years—graduate right before my eyes. As a junior, it’s an alarming sight. I’m forced to come to terms with the fact that next year, it will be the class of 2015 entering adulthood. And while most...
In April this year, President Barack Obama rejected the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline due to concerns about the pipeline’s potential environmental impact on Nebraska’s Sand Hills region. The House has passed the bill multiple times, but Keystone XL has dragged on for over three years...
