All Entries in the "Opinion" Category
Our View: From the Buchtelite staff to you
For our last issue we decided to write the things this past school year has taught us. Katelyn Freil News Editor This year led to many big changes for me, including a new job and family and friends moving away, which has in turn led me to realize this: I am a grown-up. When I [...]
Finals are coming, to a class near you
Dakota Phillips Judgment day is coming: the time you gather your strength, muster your materials and ingest copious amounts of coffee. This unholy fury is one of many ways man has devised to demoralize his future competition. I feel it’s a cop-out to test your knowledge and mastery of a subject based on memorizing more [...]
Queen Genevieve, the laptop
Aine McCarthy For the past couple of weeks, my attention span has degenerated to little more than that of a gnat. When I think of my brain lately, I am often reminded of eggs in a frying pan and how closely they resemble the effects of crack. Luckily, I don’t need narcotics to sizzle my [...]
Reflections on the semester’s end
Kara Hemphill With the end of the semester fast approaching, going to class gets harder by the day. It’s difficult to concentrate on school when there are three months of glorious freedom looming – or at least, as close to freedom as a college student can get. Maybe it’s because most of my summer plans [...]
Oui, j’aime les femmes
Aine McCarthy When I was a little girl, I played “show me yours and I’ll show you mine” with another little girl from up the street. I didn’t know what playing this meant to adults; I just knew that I was curious if the other little girl looked like me. But, being the good little [...]
Calling potential roommates
Alison Czaplicki Finding a roommate is exciting, but can quickly turn into horror. With everything else the end of spring semester brings, finding a new roommate for next fall is another item on many students’ to-do list. Asking these questions when seeking a potential roommate will eliminate the extremes. Rolling into my fourth year of [...]
How you can dominate finals
Gabriel Glandorf With the semester ending soon and finals quickly approaching, many students are under a massive amount of stress. There is much to accomplish in what seems like an impossibly short amount of time. However, as troublesome as it may be, finals week can be efficiently conquered by using these simple tips: 1. DON’T [...]
Better alternatives to the standard final
Jessica Johnson As the semester comes to a close, we all look forward to summer break. There is only that one barrier that we all have to get through: final exams. Do we really need a whole week devoted to making our lives miserable? Do we need them at all? Final exam week could be [...]
Summer session
Abigail Chaff The end of the semester brings with it a lot of stress. Finals have to be studied for and papers need to be written. Even the start of planning for next semester can be exhausting. This semester isn’t even over, but you already have to plan out the classes you are going to [...]
Tragedy: the latest craze
Dakota Phillips The single greatest case for faith in humanity happened in October of 1962. Historically, this was the moment the USSR came close to nuking the U.S. and vice versa. The world could have easily perished into the nuclear fires of Mutually Assured Destruction. We realistically could’ve been sentenced to surviving in a post-apocalyptic [...]
Girl About Campus: How to be cool at a concert
Helen Dauka There’s a thin line between keeping the beat and going into a full on awkward bop-dance. The thin line continues when trying to sing along. Too much and you’re the crazy fangirl. Too little and it looks like you’re pretending to know the words. All types are at concerts from the first time [...]
The Civil Rights Movement of our generation
Jessica Johnson Adopted in 1996, DOMA states that marriage will remain between a man and woman and that same-sex couples will be denied the rights of marriage. DOMA also states that same-sex marriages performed in other states do not have to be recognized in states where it is in place. This act is adopted on [...]
Where the wild things explode
Abigail Chaff When do people lose faith in humanity? When does the naive thought that people are innately good go away? Does it happen after the nice man promised you sweets and a puppy only to molest you and changed your life forever? Is it the day you come home from school and police tell [...]
Senioritis: a misdiagnosis
Helen Dauka In 2005, UrbanDictionary.com defined Senioritis as “a crippling disease that strikes high school seniors. Symptoms include: laziness, an over-excessive wearing of track pants, old athletic shirts, sweatpants, athletic shorts and sweatshirts. It also features a lack of studying, repeated absences and a generally dismissive attitude. The only known cure is a phenomenon known [...]
Depression hurts many
Jaclyn Wloszek Depression is not a weakness. It is not a flaw. It is not a crutch. Depression does not define a person. It is not a label on a prescription bottle. Depression: The insidious monster within. It can be mild or it can be severe. It can also take many shapes and names (manic [...]
What kind of customer are you?
Alison Czaplicki Have you ever been the last person in a restaurant or bar and thought, “Wow, I bet it’s time for them to close. We should probably wrap this up and call it a night.” If so, you are one of a kind. Many students find themselves working their way through college in the [...]
Meet Mr. Staff, your friendly new professor
Nick Nussen Course enrollment is upon us, and I recently recommended a certain course and its instructor to a friend. My friend, upon browsing the catalog, could not find this instructor in conjunction with the recommended course. I looked up the course and found that, for all its sections, the instructor was listed as “Staff.” [...]
Who’s really behind the gun
Ethan Robinson Since the tragedy in Connecticut, new attention on this nation’s gun control policy has come into public scrutiny. First, to reassure everyone, the second amendment of the Constitution has been and will continue to be: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people [...]
Reflections on relationships and love
Abigail Chaff When you are in your early twenties, relationships can often be fleeting. You are always meeting new people. In the rush of college, it can seem difficult to keep something steady. But every once in a great while you can stumble into true love. The first second we locked eyes I knew I [...]
Same-sex marriage not inequality’s end
Kara Hemphill If you have a Facebook account, you probably noticed a lot of red equal signs popping up on your news feed over spring break. This is primarily because on March 26, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the case Hollingsworth v. Perry – better known as the case connected to California’s [...]
