Tag: social media
Oct. 20, 2017
To the victims we report about, but don’t know: an open letter
As reporters and editors, we are not strangers to the sexual-related offenses on and even off campus. We’ve reported on the allegations of rape and…
Oct. 13, 2017
Choose your own roommates
There are some things meant to be left up to chance. Buying a lottery ticket, for example, or saying “I don’t care it’s up to…
Oct. 13, 2017
A new blog explores the lives of Drexel students
The idea of perspective always comes down to one key idea which is essentially that we are all one miniscule part of this vast world,…
Oct. 6, 2017
Don’t let the robots take over
I can remember a time in my life when everyone used house phones, and the first flip phones were just being born. I know my…
Jul. 28, 2017
Don’t let newspapers die
My mom was perusing a copy of the newspaper that she typically buys at Wawa every week for $1 when she looked up from it…
Apr. 28, 2017
Navigate away from your newsfeed, smell the roses
This morning I read two online news articles about people spreading Nazi propaganda. I’ve seen multiple comments on Facebook that drive home the reminder that…
Apr. 7, 2017
Cheap tweets
“Some guy gave up his first-class seat for a uniformed soldier. People are thanking him. I’m trying not to vomit or yell about Mosul.” As…
Feb. 3, 2017
Mobilizing to move forward
In the wake of the election, there was a social-media firestorm. Multitudes of angry liberals and people who disapprove of having a hate-mongering…
Sep. 23, 2016
Journalistic integrity in the era of clickbait
On Sept. 17, at 9:35 a.m., a pipe-bomb style device exploded in a garbage can at a Marine Corps charity race in Seaside Park, New…
Jan. 29, 2016
Finding hope even through all of the pessimism
In such an era of social media, widespread news and efficient technology, it’s easy to find the world to be a violent place. It’s easy…