“Vote. Voice. Use Your Feet,” these are the three phrases imparted to me when reading Jane Fonda’s newest book, “What Can I Do? My Path From Climate Despair to Action.” To be completely honest, I bought this book more out of my love for Jane Fonda than a desire to learn about climate change. However, […]
Category: Editorial
Tik Tok creates community through its unique algorithm
During a worldwide pandemic it has been difficult to find activities to distract yourself. However, thanks to the best social networking application, TikTok, you could find yourself scrolling for hours through random videos specifically engineered to your liking. TikTok is a Chinese video-sharing social networking application owned by internet technology company ByteDance. The creators of […]
Online school forces students to re-learn learning
In light of the transition to online classes for most American universities, and even for lower levels of education from elementary schools up through middle and high schools, students across the country have had to adapt to a completely new style of learning. With this change, there have been many adjustments to make to individual’s […]
Voices of young-voters should still be amplified and used
Going into the 2020 election, it is important now more than ever that young adults understand how vital their voices really are. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2018 only 53% of the eligible voting population voted during the midterm election. Adults from 18-25 years old make up half of the eligible voting population. […]
Students, educators should see online education as an opportunity
Students at California Baptist University and school-aged children around the globe are going through a serious transition right now as public and private education systems simultaneously transition to an online-only teaching format in response to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic. While there are downsides to this situation, adapting to an online-only educational system provides a unique […]
No human is illegal, regardless of status
While “political correctness” certainly is a buzz word in our culture that points to saying ‘this’ instead of ‘that’ and is often mocked, there is power in changing the vocabulary we use when discussing sensitive subjects. The most prominent example of this is the way we as a society refer to undocumented immigrants. When we […]
U.S. 2021 budget needs major changes
The Trump administration unveiled its proposed budget for the government’s 2021 fiscal year (FY), revealing a record-breaking $4.82 trillion spending plan. However, despite the increase from previous years, the plan proposes funding cuts to education, housing and environmental protection areas, while more than half of discretionary spending goes toward military spending. The U.S. government estimates […]
Stop going back home on the weekends
One of the signature traits of California Baptist University is that campus gets a little quiet on the weekends. Parking lots that are usually completely full suddenly have no competition for spaces, all because seemingly half the residential students head home for the weekends. CBU has a prevalent commuter culture throughout the week because approximately […]
Ask more questions, listen
“Ask more questions, talk about yourself less.” Famous Pop-rap duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are hardly the first to come up with such a concept, and yet those song lyrics have always stuck with me. It brings me to an important question: What are you doing today to invest in the lives of those around […]
California minimum wage needs to stop rising
When I first moved to California, I was so excited minimum wage was $11 an hour. Now that it has risen to $12 an hour, this state’s minimum wage is now nearly $5 more than the federal minimum wage of only $7.25 per hour. In April 2016, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a $15-an-hour minimum wage […]