Daily Orange Columns: Spring 2025
Opinion: Valuing social media over real art hurts our chances for revolution
Trump’s attack on the Kennedy Center symbolizes his greater desire to deconstruct and reorganize American art institutions to prevent political dissent through expression.
Personal Essay: Finding comfort in solitude deepens connections with others
We do ourselves a favor by presently sitting in the discomfort of being alone rather than fighting against it.
Personal Essay: College provides a chance to lose your identity, find it again
In this whirling state of mind, I began losing confidence in the idea that I knew myself or the world around me at all. I was certain my formerly unshakeable self-image was rooted in youthful naivete.
Opinion: Removing DEIA makes academic, workplace meritocracy impossible
While it’s not the role of college students to reverse these threats ourselves, it’s vital that we recognize the dangerous fallacies in Trump’s idea of merit.
Opinion: Gen Z prioritizes appearance of productivity over true connection
In other cultures, the concept of work-life balance isn’t a pipe dream, but a balanced, normalized way of living.
Opinion: Study history’s patterns to combat Trump’s corruption
You might think our historical knowledge and natural desire to advance society would deter us from toying with the same terrible ideas that have historically resulted in pain. But the nuances of history and predictability of patterns right now reveal a different story.
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CNY Women's Network
Beat Writing: Housing
As a media intern for the CNY Women's Network in spring of 2023, I worked on a few profile pieces for their blog.
Attached below is a piece I wrote on Melanie LittleJohn, marking the first official day of her term as the CEO of the Central New York Community Foundation.
Beat Writing: Housing
Beat Writing: Housing
At Newhouse, all MND students take Reporting (MND305). Each student is given the opportunity to select a beat to write on.
During my semester I picked housing as my beat. In the wake of a Syracuse housing crisis and the I-81 viaduct removal, I found that my work could only graze the surface of an issue that I have since been highly interested in reporting on.
The Daily Orange
The Daily Orange
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